By Carlyle Harry
On Saturday, April 29, Sister Friends— community volunteers of the Brooklyn Birthing Project, celebrated its third annual community baby shower in collaboration with the Christopher Rose Community Empowerment Campaign at the Wyckoff Farmhouse
Museum in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.
The hosts chose the theme for this year ‘Shower 2 Empower’, because they feel that pregnancy, along with the ability to give life, was one of life’s most precious attributes, and thus should always be celebrated.
The hosts view Pregnancy as one of the most vulnerable times of life for both mother and baby. The aim of these annual showers is to provide emotional and material support to pregnant women…In a statement, the Sponsors declared “We love doing this baby shower. every year , we look forward to the opportunity of celebrating each precious new baby and having the community share in the collective experience. This is why Shower 2 Empower was created”. They added” For every expecting mother or for those who have recently given birth, this is their time to be special, their time to be recognized, and their time to feel nothing but love and happiness from the community. We’re happy to partner with the Birthing Project to support maternal health in the Borough”.
The Nationally renowned Birthing Project model pairs community volunteers with pregnant women and provides social and emotional support to ensure that. they have healthy babies. In Brooklyn, The Birthing Project is sponsored by the Brooklyn Perinatal Network and supported by NYC’ Department of Health’s Healthy Start – Community Action network (CAN).
This year’s ‘Baby-Shower’ event was sponsored by the Christopher Rose Community
Empowerment Campaign, Inc. with support from HealthFirst, Footprints Cafe, Silvers Krust Restaurant, Suede Restaurant, Visions Decor and Trader Joe’s It also obtained generous assistance from Borough President Eric L. Adams a strong supporter of prenatal and infant health.
Representative Italia Granshaw addressed the mothers-to-be on behalf of the Borough President. The afternoon was topped off by an inspirational keynote address by Dr. Sophia Lubin.
The day’s event was hosted on the grounds of the landmark Wyckoff Farm House Museum.
The landscape was teeming with children and families were offered educational tours of the Facility. One woman who attended the event went into labor and delivered a healthy baby boy the next morning . The major Sponsors of this event utilizes the Theme “It takes a village to raise a child “
For more information about the Sister Friend Birthing Project in your community email bpsisterfriend@gmail.com ; call BPN at (718) 643-8258 ; or contact Sharon Rose or Elzie Wright at CRCEC (718) 272-2363.
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