The Roots of Love & Violence: Birth & the Primal Period Symposium II, Part 5

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Film 5 of Symposium 2

This is the 5th and final segment of the 5-hour film in “The Roots of Love & Violence” Birth and the Primal Period”, created from Birthing The Future’s historic 2nd International Symposium. This segment includes presentations from 3 pioneering U.S. homebirth midwives (from New Mexico, Alaska and California) who each created a model community birthing center and who also worked in the political sphere to get direct-entry midwifery legal in the U.S.; a nurse and doula from Holland

A special feature of this film is a long, powerful slide show of photos from Anna Verwaal, narrated by her, presenting a series of births, including: a spontaneous, natural (biologically normal) births, a pregnant woman who for understandable reasons could not connect to her baby in the womb, a 5-day labor for a natural birth, women healing their fear of birth, and also an epidural/cesarean birth, a natural vaginal birth in water after a cesarean, and the impact of these labors and births on the babies and their parents

 

Topics Include:

– how pioneering “direct-entry” (non-nurse) midwives in the U.S., who have inspired midwives around the world, and their decades of tireless efforts to gain recognition and support, lobbying to become legal and get licensed

– why create a midwife-run community birth center: for those women who do not wish to or can birth at home

– how the public needs to see images of attachment parenting

the need to listening to and learn from each other

and the need to instill in young women that they have what it takes to make it in the world and that they have a voice and they have rights

– how prospective parents can “call in” the baby they desire, prior to conceiving

– the energy of “toning” during pregnancy – especially with the couple doing it – on the baby

-what can happen during labor when a woman has experienced abuse in a prior hospital birth or other hospital experience and how the impact of allowing that labor to take all the time it needs, with support

– how when there are no issues that need to be dealt with, the labor can be very short

– the need for a birthing woman to let go of emotions and trauma she hasn’t faced and that may well come up in labor and stop the labor until the emotions are released

– what a cesarean surgery looks like

– what the midwife model of care looks like

– the exquisite consciousness of newborns

– Here’s to the pioneers!

Suzanne Arms is the host and a featured speaker.