Health Foundations Cocktail ~ Mocktail Party

with Ina May Gaskin & Billy McLaughlin

Health Foundations is hosting an event for the community!  Come enjoy fabulous music by Billy McLaughlin, inspiring conversation and presentation by Ina May Gaskin, yummy food and sweet treats!

A book signing will be part of the event!  Ina May will sign copies of her new book, "Birth Matters".  Books will be available for sale for $15.  Only one book will be signed per person.  (credit cards, checks & exact cash will be accepted forms of payment)

Where:   The Happy Gnome

               498 Selby Avenue

               Saint Paul, MN 55102

When:    November 13^th from 4pm - 6pm

Tickets:  $20

Adults only please. Cash bar.

Ina May Gaskin

Ina May Gaskin, MA, CPM, is founder and director of the Farm Midwifery Center, located near Summertown, Tennessee. Founded in 1971, by 1996, the Farm Midwifery Center had handled more than 2,600 births, with remarkably good outcomes. Gaskin herself has attended more than 1,200 births. She is the author of numerous books including Spiritual Midwifery, now in its fourth edition, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth, Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding, and Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta. For 22 years she has published Birth Gazette, a quarterly covering health care, childbirth and midwifery issues. In 2003, she was chosen as a Visiting Fellow of Morse College, Yale University. She was President of Midwives’ Alliance of North America from 1996 to 2002. In 1997, she received the ASPO/Lamaze Irwin Chabon Award and the Tennessee Perinatal Association Recognition Award.  In 2009, Thames Valley University in London presented Gaskin with an honorary doctorate in recognition of her work in demonstrating through midwifery and natural childbirth that women’s bodies still work as they were designed.  In 2011, she received the first ever BEing BOLD Lifetime Achievement award from BOLD.  She has been featured in several documentaries about birth, including Ricki Lake's ever-popular The Business of Being Born.

Billy McLaughlin

Billy McLaughlin is recognized internationally as a world-class guitarist, composer and inspirational performer who has appeared on Billboard’s TopTen Chart. Previously signed to Virgin Records’ Narada label, McLaughlin has 14 CD releases, 3 National Campus Entertainer of the Year Awards, 5 Minnesota Music Awards and his decades of national concert touring earned him the Hall of Fame Achievement Award.  He resides in his home state of Minnesota where he is  proudly raising two boys, both born at home.