WELCOME!

Good morning!

Welcome to my first blog post!
Today seems like a really good place to start as this last weekend we hosted an IUD Awareness Outreach Booth at the 21st Annual Goddess Crafts Faire in Sebastopol, CA.  The whole weekend was truly incredible and the number of negative and life altering IUD stories shared by the women there was truly astounding!  The general support was also amazing and I am more determined than ever that this effort REALLY NEEDS to happen as quickly as possible and in as BIG of a way was we can make it.  These devices are dramatically affecting the lives of countless numbers of women all around the world and it is not getting talked about:(

FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN
This last week was also the beginning of our Fundraising Campaign and a lot of support (both financially and with offers of energy) was received for that.  Met a woman poisoned by the Copper 7 IUD 30 years ago who hadn't realized that these devices were still being used and who is super gung ho on helping with the website design as that is what she does:) 

At an IUD Awareness booth at another fair in Boonville, CA two weekends ago, I met a woman there whose uterus was severely scarred by a Paragard IUD this last year.  She's an expert at Kickstarter Campaigns so is ready to come on board and help me get that part of the fundraising campaign started asap.  Another woman with a non-profit also offered to "umbrella us" until we can get our own status approved and legal.

THIS KIND OF SUPPORT FEELS SO ESSENTIAL RIGHT NOW as I am barely keeping up with all the other daily needs to get this project rolling.  

COPPER DEFICIENCY
On Monday, I received a phone message from a woman that had found the booth at the Goddess Faire saying that she had gotten it out first thing the next morning and was so happy that she had:)  The really disturbing part of her message for me however, was that her gynecologist had tried to convince her to keep it in, saying that she was probably copper depleted and that having the copper IUD inside of her would likely "help" with that!  This falsehood that "copper IUD's help our bodies get the copper that they need" that has been "Sold" to health practitioners is a disturbing one.  I remember the practitioner at Planned Parenthood who put in my Paragard Copper IUD saying the same thing to me!!

First of all, these "doctors" should know enough to realize that it doesn't work that way.  There are two different forms of copper. One is the bioavailable form found in food (the one that our bodies NEED) and the other is the non bio-available "metal" form (the one that is a POISON to our bodies).  One of the common things that the "metal" form does is CAUSE depletion of the bio-available "food" form, so a recommendation of someone getting or using an IUD to help with copper deficiency is completely unfounded.  It is for this reason that many of us are COPPER TOXIC and COPPER DEFICIENT at the same time.

Her message made me realize that we need to write a general educational pamphlet designed specifically for gynecologists and heath practitioners that reinforces this point and many of the other fallacies that they have been using to promote IUD use in general.  If we have that, then women can take it in to them after they get told things like that, or we can get their addresses and mail it to them directly.   Just one of many, many jobs that need to be done!"
Please check out the IUD Awareness Fundraising Page for a peek at the long list of those jobs:)

More later!
Tamara Wilder