Video: Cesarean Section Part2
Think you can avoid a forceps delivery by opting for a cesarean section? Think again. Babies do not slide out any easier when pulled from your abdomen than when they are naturally expelled through your...
View ArticleVideo: Another Cesarean Section
Today is the last day of April and the last day of cesarean awareness month. Yes, cesareans are valuable in a very small number of instances such as placenta previa but those cases account for...
View ArticlePrevent Cesarean Surgery Video, Winner Birth Matters Contest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZy0JPtubiQ The following movie is the winner of the Birth Matters Video contest. Here is what the celebrity judges had to say about it: * “Such great myth-busting and...
View ArticleC Section Video
Here is a nice short c section video to add to our childbirth video library. It is very clear from this c section video that a cesarean section is not simple or painless. It is major abdominal surgery....
View ArticleVideo: Childbirth Video in a Hospital
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ0ZzY-gaZc This is another great example of why unassisted childbirth is best for mother and child. This is a short, silent clip of another hospital birth video....
View ArticleVideo: Natural Waterbirth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_77qzUY6IQ Now this is natural childbirth. This is a beautiful waterbirth. Notice how effortlessly the baby comes out when the mom is not on her back. Always remember...
View ArticleVideo: Hospital Birth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkDdcZZloEM&feature=player_embedded Although this is not a particularly traumatic hospital birth, any time a woman is on her back, she is positioning for the benefit...
View ArticleVideo: 3D Animation of Vaginal Childbirth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xath6kOf0NE&feature=player_embedded Notice how the supine birthing position (on the back) aims the babies head at the poor mother’s tail bone. Tail bones are often...
View ArticleVideo:Unassisted Childbirth
This is a nice video by Laura Shanley who wrote the book “Unassisted Childbirth” and runs the site www.unassistedchildbirth.com. The concept of not using a doctor or midwife at all makes so much sense...
View ArticleVideo: Hospital Childbirth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoBPfPnq8nQ This is a great example of unnecessary interventions. These women seem to be trying to dig the baby out. They are pulling the babies head, pushing on the...
View ArticleIna May Gaskin on Fear in Childbirth
Ina May Gaskin talks about how fear in childbirth can result in a stall or reversal of labor progress. Her birth hormones shut off and her fight or flight hormones are activated. The post Ina May...
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The HBA2C of Lilah Rayne!
This video is really great. It has given you hope for those moms out there who wants to have a natural birth. Carol Hagan is so brave. You should totally understand how it feels to be robbed twice of...
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Ina May Gaskin Talks about Natural Childbirth – 1
Midwife Ina May Gaskin talks about natural childbirth — and “sphincter law.” Filmed at The Farm, Summertown, Tennessee USA, September 7, 2007. Part 1 of 3 The post Ina May Gaskin Talks about Natural...
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Scene from 'The Business of Being Born'
“The Business of Being Born” is a documentary film produced by Ricki Lake, it compares various childbirth methods, including midwives, natural births, epidurals, and Cesarean sections. The film...
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Lynsey Stone Birth Photography – Unassisted Birth Slideshow
This is a shortened version of an unassisted home-birth that Lynsey Stone photographed. If you are interested in having her photograph your birth please visit her at: www.dfwbirthphotographer.com...
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Lotus Birth: What are The Benefits? – Sarah Buckley
“It is very beneficial for the newborn child who receives all the precious placenta blood: it is also beneficial psychological and emotional for mothers and children, because with the Lotus is favors...
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Guerrilla Midwife – Trailer
A globally acclaimed, award-winning documentary that takes you along the fragrant streets of Bali and desolate Acehnese refugee camps of the Indonesian Archipelago, where, Midwife-Ibu Robin Lim finds...
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Birth As We Know It
A call to Conscious Birth. All over the world, people love this film’s open invitation to transform Birth, to evolve as a species through birthing our young in peace, gifting them with the imprint of...
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Birth by the Numbers
In this short movie “Birth by the Numbers,” Gene Declercq, PhD, Professor of Maternal and Child Health at the Boston University School of Public Health, presents sobering statistics about birth in the...
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Acupressure Points to Induce Labor: Leg and Foot Points
Some acupressure points are really useful if you are post date-meaning past 40 weeks. This video shows some points on the lower legs such as SP6, UB60, UB67 and KI1. Massage one point for 10 minutes...
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