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Bravado Breastfeeding Information Council (video)

R Haasch — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:29 +0000

The Breastfeeding Conversation has changed! Share the excitement, the energy and the inside line from the Best Brains in Breastfeeding from our BBIC launch event- recorded live on Nov 10, 2009 in New York.

http://www.breastfeedinginformation.org/kick-off

VBAC

R Haasch — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:38 +0000

Tuning Into Birth on YouTube

R Haasch — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:21 +0000

http://jenniferblock.com/wordpress/?p=105

Last time the New York Times reported on home birth it was in the “Home & Garden” section. Here’s another story, about the rise in birth video viewership on YouTube, in “Fashion & Style.” (Sigh. When will physiological birth get a page in the “Health” section??) Most of the thousands of birth videos are shot at home — as of today there are 10,900 results to the search terms “home birth” — because taping is rarely permitted in hospitals. It’s mindblowing to think that 30, 40 years ago, women didn’t have access to books or even photographs showing the normal birth process. Now you can spend a whole afternoon birth-surfing.

Doulas in Action

R Haasch — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:07 +0000

Doulas in Action

Depression in Pregnancy and Postpartum

R Haasch — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:51 +0000

My Twin Homebirth VBAC (HBAC)

R Haasch — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000

Natural Childbirth of Twins and Triplets!

R Haasch — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:37 +0000

Abra’s beautiful water birth

R Haasch — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:32 +0000

Avoiding C-sections in Stalled Childbirth

R Haasch — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:51 +0000

Andrew Laming attacks Labor’s sneaky attempt to snuff out home births in Australia

R Haasch — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:03:20 +0000

The Nature of Natural Birth

R Haasch — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:33 +0000

Prevent Cesarean Surgery

R Haasch — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:55 +0000

Birth Matters Video Contest Winners Announced

R Haasch — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:19:04 +0000

Hi everyone,
Sorry the judging took so long, but we were very careful and scientific about it!! Visit our website to see the prize winners along with comments from Ricki, Abby, and Sarah about all the finalists!

http://birthmattersva.org/videocontest.html

And please help us spread the word about the winners on your FB status, your blog, Twitter, yahoo groups, listserves, and any other way you can think of. Now that the winners have been announced, it’s a good time to get a groundswell of attention.

Thanks to all that entered, and congrats to the winners!

Sarah
Birth Matters Virginia, Richmond chapter

Doula segment on the Today Show website

R Haasch — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:44 +0000

DONA International is proud to present a Today Show segment on labor and postpartum doulas. Please take 5 minutes to view this segment and pass on to any and all of your friends.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26887140/#30894159

If the link does not work, go to the Today Show website and look for the segment on “Mothering the Mother”.

David Anderson, PhD, discusses economic benefits of homebirth (Video)

R Haasch — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:19 +0000

Jennie Joseph (Video)

R Haasch — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:48 +0000

BigPushTube’s Channel

R Haasch — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:27 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/user/BigPushTube

The Big Push for Midwives YouTube Channel

The Big Push for Midwives Campaign builds state-level advocacy campaigns to license Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) in all 50 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico, and educates national policymakers about out-of-hospital maternity care.

Vaginal Childbirth 3D Video Animation

R Haasch — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:24 +0000

How to Breastfeed : Baby Latching Tips for Breastfeeding

R Haasch — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:24 +0000

Birth Matters Video Contest (Video)

R Haasch — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:25:33 +0000

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=73753459808

The deadline for the video contest was yesterday, and links to all the videos have been added under “LINKS”.

Take a look see and vote for the ones you like best on You Tube!

Contest entries will be narrowed to 10 by a panel of judges that includes Ricki Lake, Abby Epstein, and Sarah Buckley. Then the top three prize winners will be announced in early June. Top prize is $1000!

Please change your status update to encourage people to come check out the contest!

Sarah Allen-Short

Mattress Ad Features Homebirth

R Haasch — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:27 +0000

Not sure what the mattress ads in your TV market are like, but around here, they typically feature a wacky mattress store giant ready to slash prices on name brands! (Pillow tops! Kings!) Or a barely compatible couple setting wildly variant firmness levels on his/her side of the bed.

But in today’s installment of How Euros Aren’t Like Americans, we bring you the mattress ad. Here’s a French one featuring two guys snuggling with the line “And you, how do you sleep?”

Or this: an ad from Spain featuring a homebirth.

Unless you work for hippies (or in Spain), this video is NSFW.

http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/04/17/mattress-ad-features-homebirth.aspx

Birth Documentary Contest: $1,000 First Prize

R Haasch — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:27 +0000

Birth Matters Virginia is soliciting 4-7 minute educational videos about birth in the hopes of reducing the incidence of medically unnecessary c-sections, infant and maternal morbidity, and skyrocketing health care costs. The first-place winner will receive a prize of $1,000. Second place $500 and an “honorable mention” prize of $100 will also be awarded. The deadline for entering the contest is Mother’s Day, May 10, 2009.

Guest judges include: Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, acclaimed producers of the Business of Being Born and Sarah J. Buckley., MD, international birth expert and author of Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering. Ricki, Abby, and Sarah will join a consumer-based panel of judges who will be evaluating the tone, educational content, creativity and more. You don’t have to be a professional to enter and you don’t have to be from Virginia. We’d love to get videos from mothers, fathers, filmmakers, film students, birth advocates, and anyone else who is interested in birth or film or wants to win $1000.

Birth Matters Virginia advocates “evidence-based” maternity care, which simply means using the best available research on the safety and effectiveness of specific practices to help guide maternity care decisions and to facilitate optimal outcomes in mothers and newborns. There are a lot of ways to approach that topic and lots of opinions on what that means, and we’re looking forward to the variety of entries.

For rules, how to enter, or to sign up for updates, please visit http://www.birthmattersva.org/videocontest.html
You can also join our Facebook group to get updates about the contest and exchange ideas with other participants at
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=73753459808
And if you have questions, email Sarah at Richmond@birthmattersva.org

Even if you don’t plan to make a video or submit an entry, please pass this email on to everyone you can think of, post it on your blog, your Facebook page, Twitter, whatever you can think of! The more people submit videos, the more will be out there on YouTube and we could use all the help we can get spreading the word.

Home Birth is serious business..

R Haasch — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:13 +0000

Serious, intelligent women are saying “no” to maternity care that, contrary to what obstetricians and hospitals would lead us to believe, actually increases risk and danger for mother and baby. Women who choose to give birth at home are making their decisions based on best evidence. If you need to be convinced visit the Cochrane Library, or read A Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth, or read our book. The Childbirth Connection response to the 2006 ACOG policy statement on home birth is also important reading.

The Cochrane review has not been updated since 1998. At that time there was only one study reviewed and that had a small sample. In spite of that, the recommendation was, and continues to be, that healthy women should not be advised against home birth. That recommendation is based on two realities: there is no evidence (and there never has been) that hospital birth is safer than planned home birth; and, there is no evidence that planned home birth is not as safe as hospital birth. In 2005 a large study of home birth was published in the British Medical Journal. The study meets all the standards for scientific rigor. The research findings? For a healthy woman having a normal pregnancy, a planned, midwife attended home birth is as safe as a hospital birth and with far lower rates of medical interventions (that bring their own short and long term dangers).

http://www.givingbirthwithconfidence.org/?p=189

Over 90 Field Tested Guerrilla Marketing Tactics

R Haasch — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:13 +0000

http://smallbizbee.com/index/2009/03/30/over-90-field-tested-guerrilla-marketing-tactics/

Looking for some easy ways to get your business noticed? Try one of these quick, fairly easy, and sometimes free guerilla marketing tactics.

This presentation is literally chock full of ideas on who to market your business, and what’s nice many come with real world examples and case studies.

Best viewed with full screen

Guerrilla Marketing – Over 90 Field-Tested Tactics to Get Your Business Into the Frontline (a ChangeThis manifest)

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Tanzanian Midwives ‘Play Their Part’

R Haasch — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:31 +0000

A short film by five midwives and a doctor in Tanzania documenting the dire conditions of maternal health care in the country has inspired the Tanzanian government to double the number of midwives trained each year.

The 10-minute film, made by midwives trained in participatory film-making, looks at “the appalling conditions in which women have to give birth” in Tanzania and incited government action on maternal health care after it was screened before the Minister of Health (see the full story below). Click here to watch the video.

(Video) Breastfeeding Debate Continues

R Haasch — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:49 +0000

There are new details and reaction today to a breastfeeding controversy in Asheville.

Crystal Everitt says she was asked to leave Denny’s on Patton Avenue Sunday because she was breastfeeding her child. Denny’s Regional Director Rick Pate tells News 13 complaints poured into management and some patrons left. He says a manager asked Everitt to cover herself or go somewhere more private.

http://www.wlos.com/shared/newsroom/top_stories/wlos_vid_2111.shtml

Breastfeeding And Asthma

R Haasch — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:10 +0000

Breastfeeding has been known to benefit a baby’s health in numerous ways, including lowering the risk of asthma, and other illnesses and disorders, later in life.

It also has psychological benefits.

“We know that the breastfeeding creates a bond between the mother and the baby which lasts forever and ever,” notes Edith Kernerman, lactation consultant.

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_31487.aspx

Birth Matters Virginia announces a birth video contest

R Haasch — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:30 +0000

As a step toward our goal of educating women about their choices and options, we are soliciting short videos about evidence-based maternity and delivery care. We want videos that will appeal to and inspire new audiences that may not have previously been exposed to any model of childbirth other than the version we see on television and in movies: dangerous, uncertain, excruciating, and usually in need of extensive and often emergency medical interventions. Birth doesn’t have to be this scary, and people need good information in order to make good choices.

We are thrilled to announce guest judges:
Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, acclaimed producers of The Business of Being Born.
Sarah Buckley, M.D., international birth expert and author of Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering.

The first-place winner will receive a cash prize of $1000. Second place: $500 and Honorable Mention: $100.

Deadline for Entry is 11:59pm on Mother’s Day, May 10, 2009

http://www.birthmattersva.org/videocontest.html

Salma Hayek on ‘Mothers Working Together’

R Haasch — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:59 +0000

When actress and producer Salma Hayek arrived in Sierra Leone in September, she was not whisked off to a movie set. She was there not as a celebrity, but as a humanitarian, to see firsthand a leading cause of death in the developing world: tetanus. “Nightline” co-anchor Cynthia McFadden went along to document the journey.

http://a.abcnews.com/Entertainment/story?id=6804291&page=1

(Video) Home Birth: DIY Labor and Delivery

R Haasch — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:00:19 +0000

We first met Katherine and Todd through LocalHarvest.org as our closest Community Supported Agriculture provider. We quickly became interested in their story as small farmers trying to make a living growing food and selling it locally. Needless to say we started documenting work on their farm the week after we signed up for their CSA share. A month into taping, Katherine said “I hope this doesn’t affect the story, but I’m three months pregnant”. As you can see, it didn’t just affect the story, it helped us go deeper into it, focusing on the fact that they were planning a home birth.

http://ryanishungry.com/2009/01/21/home-birth-diy-labor-and-delivery/#

Home Birth No. 1: Introduction to a Midwife

R Haasch — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:00:17 +0000

Licensed midwife Aleksandra Evanguelidi (www.SacredEntrance.com) shares what inspired her to become a midwife, what a midwife does, and why she loves being one. 1 of 7 interviews.

Home Birthing Discussion

R Haasch — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:00:01 +0000

A discussion on the topic of Home Birthing and licensing midwives in North Carolina and other U.S. states with Russ Fawcett and Jennifer Block.

Birth Right

R Haasch — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:55 +0000

“Birth Right” is a short documentary created by Emily Jackson and Neeta Kirpalani, students in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Ethnographic Filmmaking class, which explores the efforts of the Alabama Birth Coalition to legalize Certified Professional Midwife- attended home birth. In times past the state of Alabama licensed thousands of state-trained midwives who served Alabama’s families. Today there are zero legally-recognized midwives providing home birth services.

Doulas in Demand

R Haasch — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:37 +0000

Having a Doula is more popular now than ever before. Part mother’s assistant, part birthing coach, doulas are showing up in delivery rooms and quickly becoming an important part of the maternity healthcare team. Recent studies have shown that the use of a Doula results in improved physical outcomes and emotional well-being of a mother and her infant. JustMommies.com sat down with Cheryl K. Baker, Founder of Birth Partners. Cheryl is a twenty-nine year veteran of the labor room, a DONA certified Labor Doula, a Certified Bradley Educator and a Certified Lactation Educator from UCLA. She has been a birth attendant for hundreds of births and is going to fill us in on everything we need to know about Doulas…

http://www.justmommies.com/videos/doulas.shtml

Doula Videos

R Haasch — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:10 +0000

http://doulavideos.vodpod.com/

GivingBirthNaturally.com – Childbirth Video Galleries

R Haasch — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:00:13 +0000

View inspiring movies and clips that truly reveal the beauty of bringing a child into the world. These movies come in all different varieties. Some are waterbirth clips while others are of homebirths and hospital births. Some of the selections even have a bit of both.

http://www.givingbirthnaturally.com/childbirth-video.html

The Other Side of the Glass – the trailer

R Haasch — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:49 +0000

This is a ten minute YouTube version of the fund raising video for the film, “The Other Side of the Glass: Finally, A Birth Film for Fathers.”

Part I will be available to buy in late December/early January 2009.

http://www.TheOtherSideoftheGlassthefilm.blogspot.com

Mind Movie Birth Visualisation

R Haasch — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:02 +0000

Pregnant in America

R Haasch — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:45 +0000

Pregnant in America examines the betrayal of humanity’s greatest gift–birth–by the greed of U.S. corporations. Hospitals, insurance companies and other members of the healthcare industry have all pushed aside the best care of our infants and mothers to play the power game of raking in huge profits.

His wife pregnant, first-time filmmaker Steve Buonaugurio set out to create a film that will expose the underside of the U.S. childbirth industry and help end its neglectful exploitation of pregnancy and birth with help from producers Betsy Chasse and Straw Weisman.

http://www.pregnantinamerica.com

“The Business of Being Born” 2007 Trailer

R Haasch — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:02:45 +0000

The film by Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein:

http://www.thebusinessofbeingborn.com/

Bill Cosby on Natural Childbirth (1983)

R Haasch — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:59:53 +0000

Midwife Ina May Gaskin Talks about Natural Childbirth

R Haasch — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:35 +0000