The website is in French. The charm of a typical Tuscan farm in the heart of the Chianti region, among the trees of its green garden and cypress hills, vineyards and olive-trees, one hour by car from the most beautiful towns of art, history and culture in Tuscany. We offer safe, affordable, quality care throughout your pregnancy, including lab work, routine prenatal visits, and caring communication. Labour and delivery takes place in a beautiful birthing rooms, in hospital or private clinic. CASA accomplishes this through a full range of programs including a Peer Counselor Program, a Youth Ecological Awareness Team, a Theater Troupe, a Child Development Center, and the CASA Hospital where 50,000 patients were served in 1999, and about 60 women a month have their babies.
Births take place both in women's homes and in the cllinic.
MFM works to identify and preserve safe and effective traditional methods of birthing and health care, and to enhance those systems with proven aspects of bio-medicine. Providing training to traditional midwives to better serve the women's health needs in their communities. Providing a mechanism to train more North American midwives in providing women's health care in underdeveloped countries. We have an active, working, enthusiastic board from the fields of midwifery, development, anthropology, ethno-botany, gender and education. We're a well-rounded and complementary group.