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BELIEVE IN YOUR BODY, BELIEVE IN YOUR BIRTH ~
Birth Films Around the World Available for Purchase
Please visit Home Birth Videos, by Sage Femme for a wonderful collection of healthy, cultural rich birth films set around the world including the USA. We recommend Birth Day no matter where you live!
Born in the USA "explores the landscape of maternity care through the eyes of three caregivers: a progressive obstetrician working at a teaching hospital, a skillful and articulate licensed midwife who attends home births, and a compassionate certified nurse-midwife who bridges both worlds in an urban, free-standing birth center." If you can find it please write us and let us know!
Rikki Lake's birth film The Business of Being Born is now available for purchase and is available for rental from NetFlix.
Please visit these websites for additional resources and information we include in our birth classes. Learn more about birth and/or us when you visit our favorite or members' web blogs!
Midwives on Missions of Service
Ina May Gaskin
Birth Psychology
Midwifery Today ~ The Heart and Science of Birth
Sign up for their free e-newsletter too!
Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS)
Free Birth - Taking full responsibility for your birth - yes, you can safely birth unassisted and some do by choice! Born Free ~ Laura Shanley: Read the response to "Do-It-Yourself Delivery"
Birth Planning and Informed Consent to learn how to begin advocating for your right to unrestricted access to fully disclosed information regarding your prenatal and birth care.
Protect Babies From Harm is a newborn care advocacy site from Canada with a complete global newborn care picture. Topics range from how drugs in labor affect the newborn and his/her care in the immediate minutes to the true impact of early cord clamping and so on.
Find A Midwife Members of Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA)
"I sometimes wonder why [we bother compiling statistics on midwives], since their statistics are so much better than everyone else's." - Rebecca Watson, New Mexico Department of Health
Midwifery State by State ~ Citizens for Midwifery
Childbirth Connection, in their Listening to Mothers II: Second National Survey of Women's Childbearing Experiences reported "Virtually all of the mothers asked felt that they should be informed about all (78% and 81%) or most (19% and 17%) of the complications related to labor induction and cesarean, respectively, before deciding to have these interventions, yet the majority of mothers were poorly informed about several complications of labor induction and cesarean section and most had incorrect knowledge or were not sure." Read more of their reported findings at Market Wire and/or request the press release here.
International Respected Childbirth Week
May 3 - 17, 2007 will be the fourth World Respecting Childbirth Week (WRCW or SMAR), an international event focusing on the improvement of maternity services in many parts of the world. This year's theme reflects the situation of maternity services in France. This year's theme is meant to emphasize the achievement of the Mother-Baby Friendly Childbirth Initiative proposing an international quality label.
Read more on the presentation in French, English, Spanish and Czech.
A preliminary programme is available for events taking place in France here.
International Museum of Women
Maternal Health
In an age when even pre-schoolers know how to use Google, Skype, YouTube and so many other fancy technical innovations, 529,000 mothers die every year either during pregnancy or in or after labor. The majority of these deaths have been preventable for years. View the struggle to birth vaginally and naturally ~optimal birth health ~ that Brazilian women face in Born In Brazil.
World Health Organization
Provides links to activities and events regarding maternal health care around the world.
Ina May Gaskin's Safe Motherhood Quilt Project
Did you know that no improvement has been made since 1982 in reducing the maternal mortality rate in the United States? The quilt is made up of individually designed squares; each one devoted to a woman in the U.S. who has died of pregnancy-related causes since 1982. One quilt square is designed and dedicated to each mother's memory and may mention the date and place of death and the name of the woman. The Safe Motherhood Quilt is the voice for women who can no longer speak for themselves.
Midwives On Missions of Service (MOMS)
Global Midwives is a non-profit, non-denominational organization dedicated to securing midwifery care, medical personnel and supplies for all women and children around the world. Learn more about their most current ongoing project in Sierra Leone!
BIRTH
The American audio documentary is now on the air! Click here to see when you can hear it broadcast. Learn more at Thin Air Media.
Pregnant in America - Parents Need Information! View the trailer!
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