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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Extended interviews with some of worlds top birth experts. Entertaining and a great resource or teaching aid for midwives, doctors doulas and anyone interested in current maternity practices. Meet the experts is an Australian series of interviews that gives unprecedented access to some of the world's top childbirth experts. You choose the expert choose from one-on-one, extended interviews with Sheila Kitzinger, Michel Odent, Richard Porter, Ina May...
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"Florida as we know it is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state's infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast. Kirby Lowe, an electrical line worker for the local utility municipality, his pregnant wife, Frida, and their two sons, Flip and Lucas, prepare for the worst. When the boys go missing just before the hurricane hits, Kirby heads out into...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Birth stories goes beyond The face of birth documentary to share compelling birth stories from nine diverse women who choose different models of care for their pregnancies. Although each have different outcomes, all have empowering experiences. Featuring over 110 minutes of content, including previously unseen, extended-interview footage, this Australian-produced film is a must see for anyone expecting a baby, birth professionals or people who just...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
At Saint Boniface General Hospital in Manitoba two women pass each other in the corridors. Gisèle Fontaine hurries to help women in childbirth, while Louise Saurette attends the dying. Birth and death, moments of transition that involve a transformative journey, have much in common. The midwife and the chaplain offer themselves as guides on the painful and essential path of abandonment. With delicacy and restraint this film reveals the essence of...
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English
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"The first forty days is a short season in which you recover from birth and your baby unfurls slowly into the world. It is a time of amazing intensity and adjustment. This warm and encouraging guide offers advice on navigating the postpartum period and includes recipes for healing broths, calming and lactation-boosting teas, plus more--all formulated to support the needs of new mothers."--Back cover.
Publisher
Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This encyclopedia is a source for medical information that covers common and rare disease and medical conditions, immunizations and drugs, procedures, and developmental issues related to pregnancy and childbirth. It particularly addresses women's concerns about their health and their children's health from before birth through age 18.
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English
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Mommy IQ is the ultimate girlfriend's guide to pregnancy. Rosie Pope—maternity fashion designer, pregnancy guru, and star of the hit TV show Pregnant in Heels on Bravo—leads expectant mothers through the ups and downs of pregnancy with her trademark humor and down-to-earth charm, tackling difficult issues with refreshing candor while offering useful information about medical support. The founder of MomPrep—a prenatal and postpartum...
10) A book of babies
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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While baby animals are born--some with fur and some with scales, some with lots of brothers and sisters, some with none--a curious duck watches.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The face of birth gives us the big -picture on the importance of how, where and with whom we give birth. Through the diverse and beautiful stories of five women who choose to birth at home, it examines the issues of choice, safety, and empowerment, as well as many other academics, midwives and doctors. A 'must see' film for anyone interested in birth, The face of birth will encourage and inspire all who have been or are about to embark on the journey...
12) Woman To Woman
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Woman to Woman is a story about natural childbirth as well as about the empowerment of women and their partners. And it is also a story about activism
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Women's Olamal follows the events that preceded a controversial ceremony in Loita, Kenya, to bless the women and to increase their ability to have children. This film, presented in observational style with limited commentary, depicts some of the tensions between men and women in Maasai society which, in this case, erupt in a violent row between them.
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English
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With Mindful Birthing, Nancy Bardacke, nurse-midwife and mindfulness teacher, lays out her innovative program for pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond. Drawing on groundbreaking research in neuroscience, mindfulness meditation, and mind/body medicine, Bardacke offers practices that will help you find calm and ease during this life-changing time, providing lifelong skills for healthy living and wise parenting.
SOME OF THE BENEFITS OF MINDFUL
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Egypt, a birth ritual called el-sebou', meaning "the seventh", happens on the seventh day following the physical birth of a child of either sex and is celebrated by Coptic and Muslim families of all status groups, rural and urban. Characteristic of this ritual is the gender-linked imagery also manifest in the ritual clay pot. The ceremony celebrates the newborn's crossing a threshold from a neutral gender and status into a world of gender differentiation...
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Call the midwife trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
The Call the midwife trilogy is comprised of Call the midwife (not included here, c2002), Shadows of the workhouse (not included here, c2005), and Farewell to the East End (this book, c2009). Together, this series chronicles Jennifer Worth's career as a midwife from start to finish, from her arrival in the war-scarred Docklands as a wide-eyed trainee, to the demolition of the tenements and subsequent closure of Nonnatus House. It provides a fascinating...
19) Duka's Dilemma
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Personal and intimate, this film follows the drama of a Hamar family in crisis, the high points of which are the birth of the new wife's child, and nine months later, a heated dispute between the mother-in-law and her son, which leads to the building of a new house.
20) At Highest Risk
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Quechua
Description
Just as the rivers of the Andes mountains twist and coil in a curious maze, so does the grave situation of Peruvian women's health care. Within the past decade, the Andean women in Peru have faced a massive sterilization campaign, exorbitant fines for homebirths, remnants of a deadly civil war, and the second highest maternal death rate in South America. Yet, as they have for centuries, the Quechua and Aymara people are fighting to preserve their...
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