Giving Birth

Description

INSTRUCTIONS FOR VIEWING your video purchase:
Once you have paid for the video:

1. Birthing the Future® will send a link to the email we have on file for you. It will say, specifically, that your order is now complete.  If you cannot locate the file, check your spam folder. (If you are on a Mac, it may go into your “promotions” folder.)
2. Click on that email file. A small text file (denoted by a series of 9 numbers) will download into your Download folder.
3. Do not double click on this file. It will just open an empty window in your browser. Instead, open this file in any text editor (such as MS Word, or Text Edit on a Mac).
4. Once this file opens you will see the word “play” at the top of that document. Click on it and, like magic, a window from Vimeo will open your film.

NOTE: Don’t discard this file because you will need it to view the film again.

GIVING BIRTH is the acclaimed 35-minute film (plus 1 hour of bonus material) by renowned author, teacher, photojournalist Suzanne Arms that 1) reduces fear, 2) increases confidence in the birth process, and 3) demonstrates “the midwife model” for birth. It follows one couple from late in their 2nd pregnancy through their birth at home, attended by a licensed nurse-midwife and a doula. The film helps prospective parents to make conscious choices for themselves and their baby; and shows (or reminds) nurses and physicians what normal (physiologically natural) birth looks like, as that is something they seldom see in a hospital.

The bonus material follows the couple through their uninterrupted first hours with their newborn. It shows the toddler sibling getting acquainted with her new brother; the leisurely initiation of breastfeeding; and the father skin-to-skin with this new baby. It also  includes an interview with the midwife about the couple’s first birth, for which she was also the midwife, and the differences she has found between giving birth in a hospital and giving birth at home.