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Barbara
Liability insurance can be purchased inexpensively by individuals as a
Postpartum Doula. Cotterell, Mitchell and Fifer charge only $47.00 a
year for $500,000. coverage. The policy is for in home "Postpartum
doulas" it lists our responsibilities as including "breastfeeding
support, infant nutrition and hygiene" among the duties we perform for
a family. Can you change the tile from "wic peer counselors" to "wic
postpartum doula" it would then cover peer volunteers in the mother and
infant home.
Better yet, I dream of the day when Gov't grants are given for the
services of a postpartum doula in the home of poor women covered by
WIC. It would be for 3 hours a day for the first week or two in the
home.
Cotterll, Mitchell, Fifer
151 William Street
NY, NY 10038
(212) 233-8911
Ruth Callahan mailto:[log in to unmask]
Doula Care Postpartum Service... http://www.webspan.net/~callahan
NY, NY
In a message dated 98-07-18 00:03:13 EDT, you write:
<< We want to intervene by sending our pcs to the home
but we are getting noises about liability etc. groan groan >>
>Missouri rec'd a grant to expand our WIC Peer Counselor program.
>I felt it would benefit moms most if we (PCs) could see new moms
>within 24 hrs-1 week following delivery, either in the hospital or
their
>homes.
>We were told we couldn't see moms outside of the WIC Centers
>because as "under contract" volunteers, we aren't covered by
>Liability Insurance like the nurses the health dept. sends out.
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