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The Business of Being Born Documentary
Birth: it’s a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part of life. But more than anything, birth is a business. Compelled to find answers after a disappointing birth experience with her first child, actress Ricki Lake recruits filmmaker Abby Epstein to explore the maternity care system in America. Focusing on New York City, the film reveals that there is much to distrust behind hospital doors and follows several couples who decide to give birth on their own terms. There is an unexpected turn when director Epstein not only discovers she is pregnant, but finds the life of her child on the line. Should birth be viewed as a natural life process, or should every delivery be treated as a potential medical emergency?
2020 Guidelines for Community Birth
Midwives in all practice settings are committed to improving safety and providing high quality healthcare. This vision is shared by women and other birthing people, consumer advocates, obstetrical consultants, and other members of the healthcare team. Midwifery practice for families that choose planned home birth (PHB) or midwifery-led birth centers (MBC) upholds these goals. Collectively, perinatal care provided in the home or birth center is called birth in the community setting. 8 As perinatal care in both settings is conducted with similar staffing, equipment and standards, NYSALM will treat them together for the purposes of describing and defining quality healthcare.
Midwives Alliance of North America
The mission of the Midwives Alliance of North America is to unite, strengthen, support and advocate for the midwifery community and to promote educational, economic, and cultural sustainability of the midwifery profession.
Why Not Home Documentary
Join Jessicca Moore, filmmaker and nurse practitioner, on a compelling journey through maternity care in the United States. Told through the lens of doctors, nurses, and midwives, Why Not Home? examines the latest evidence on risks and rewards of different birth settings. The film presents a balanced and accessible view on the latest research, along with moving personal stories of medical practitioners faced with big decisions for their own growing families. Viewers are challenged to move beyond preconceived ideas, and to envision a fresh future for maternity care in America.
Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth
Drawing upon her thirty-plus years of experience, Ina May Gaskin, the nation’s leading midwife, shares the benefits and joys of natural childbirth by showing women how to trust in the ancient wisdom of their bodies for a healthy and fulfilling birthing experience. Based on the female-centered Midwifery Model of Care, Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth gives expectant mothers comprehensive information on everything from the all-important mind-body connection to how to give birth without technological intervention.
The Midwife’s Midwife
I was turning heads. Here I am in the center of the ultra-Orthodox, Satmar Chassidic Jewish community in Williamsburg, jumping out of a bright red jeep with a brown leather birth stool peeking out of my canvas sack. Next to me is Kristen carrying a bulging briefcase on her back. We walk with purpose, the two of us…
Having a Planned Homebirth
The number of families in the United States choosing to stay home to give birth has increased significantly in the past decade. For the essentially well woman experiencing a healthy pregnancy, intrapartum, postpartum, and newborn course, childbirth with qualified providers can be accomplished safely in all birth settings, including home, birth center, and hospital…
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