The Other Side of the Glass

The Other Side of the Glass - Buy the film

I am grateful for and overwhelmed (in a good way) with the response to the trailer and the requests to purchase the film.

 The intro is short so that fathers and professional caregivers can get the overview of the information now. Fathers/Partners will be inspired about how to advocate for the mother and baby -- whether with a doctor or midwife, or at home or the hospital.

Thanks again for your support for the film. My heart soars with gratitude.


Janel Mirendah

Friday, May 19, 2006

Introducing My Blog


Welcome to my blog. My first entry -- and so much to say!

My mission in life is to participate in the preservation of the sacredness of birth of the human being and making birth safe for the baby. To do this we have to keep the baby as the focus of his or her birth. Hence, the title of my blog, It's the Baby's Birth and my name, Baby Keeper!

I invite you to engage with me in a respectful dialog about what the human baby needs during the entire continum of birth from preconception, through gestation, labor, and birth.

There is a huge battle going on around the country and the world -- about whether birth is safest in the hospital with doctors or at home with the midwives. I suggest neither is safe, safer, or safest; but both could be if caregivers in each were to focus on what a baby needs to be safe during labor and birth. Because It's the Baby's Birth.

I am going to post my short articles and I invite you to post your comments. Anyone who is involved in birth and engaged with babies are invited to have a challenging, intense and deepening dialog.

I will not allow disrespectful posts. I will not tolerate rude comments or personal bashing of any kind. No bashing based on race, gender, geography, party affiliation, religion, or profession. So, to be clear ... no doctor bashing, no lawyer bashing, no nurse bashing, no midwife bashing, no psychologist bashing, no mother bashing, and no George bashing. NO bashing! And, believe me, "I tell you this because I need to hear it," as my friend says. I can get pretty intense myself about what I believe I know. Working through my own prenatal and birth imprints taught me a lot about misdirected anger and powerlessness, and how to take responsibility for my own feelings - which leads to my better ability to be responsible for my behavior.

My intention is to provide a respectful, safe place for people with divided, diverse and opposing but equally important ideas to share their own perceptions. This requires the upmost care and compassion for others. Please join with the intention of learning, sharing, growing in the focus of birth being on the baby.

I try to live by the "Four Agreements" by Miquel Ruiz:
1- Don't take things personally
2) Don't make assumptions
3) Be impeccable with your word
4) Do your best every day

I find these particularly helpful on online communications as we do not know one another and don't have the benefit of seeing the other's body language or hearing their tone.

We can share our perspectives from our training and experience in the way we'd like to be treated -- heard, seen, acknowledged, supported, and valued. Hey, that's just what every baby wants and needs.

And that's one of the topics of my first articles!

Joyful Baby Keeping

Janel,
The keeper of babies as the focus of birth.
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Review of the film

Most of us were born surrounded by people who had no clue about how aware and feeling we were. This trailer triggers a lot of emotions for people if they have not considered the baby's needs and were not considered as a baby. Most of us born in the US were not. The final film will include detailed and profound information about the science-based, cutting-edge therapies for healing birth trauma.

The full film will have the interviews of a wider spectrum of professionals and fathers, and will include a third birth, at home, where the caregivers do a necessary intervention, suctioning, while being conscious of the baby.

The final version will feature OBs, RNs, CNMs, LM, CPM, Doulas, childbirth educators, pre and perinatal psychologists and trauma healing therapists, physiologists, neurologists, speech therapists and lots and lots of fathers -- will hopefully be done in early 2009.

The final version will include the science needed to advocated for delayed cord clamping, and the science that shows when a baby needs to be suctioned and addresses other interventions. Experts in conscious parenting will teach how to be present with a sentient newborn in a conscious, gentle way -- especially when administering life-saving techniques.

The goal is to keep the baby in the mother's arms so that the baby gets all of his or her placental blood and to avoid unnecessary, violating, and abusive touch and interactions. When we do that, whether at home or hospital, with doctor or midwife, the birth is safe for the father. The "trick" for birthing men and women is how to make it happen in the hospital.