I pose what I now think is just so obvious that to not know it just seems insane. BIRTH IS THE BABY'S BIRTH, but apparently to most of the world, this is a foreign thought. Once you "get it" maybe you'll be like me -- thumping my head, saying, "DUH!." I have spent six years in the study of Pre and Perinatal Psychology and birth trauma healing, and I continue to heal and understand my own experience as a birthing baby and as a birthing woman.
I am a Prenatal and Birth Focused CranioSacral Therapist focusing on supporting women and men to be responsible from pre-conception through infancy in order to develop a healthy relationship with their baby and to create optimal brain development from the beginning of life.
First, I am an advocate of a woman’s right to choice and to be responsible for her choices and her body and her baby’s birth. Secondly, I am an advocate for tort reform that no longer holds physicians responsible for the outcomes in birth WHILE legally and socially demanding the use of evidence-based research in obstetrics. AND, importantly, towards these goals, I am an advocate of society embracing that the birth is seen as the baby's birth. I believe that our focus of concern ought to be on what is healthiest and best for the baby. A baby's birth should not be about the needs of doctors, midwives, insurance companies, and hospital and staff, or even just about the mother.
What is the role of these professionals and caregivers in labor and birth if the baby truly is the focus? This is the question, the challenge for our society to look at -- how to socially, morally, and legally make birth about the baby. It requires that we look in places we may find scary, both within ourselves and how we treat and interact with babies. It challenges us to bravely open up to the possibilities and the ramifications of the scientific research findings of the last decade - in physiology, cellular biology, physics, brain studies.
Opening your mind even a little will allow you to see how what we are doing early on as child-bearing and birth women is creating our social problems. Importantly, we then see how our society sanctioned use of drugs and technology during labor and birth harms women and babies in their most vulnerable time. This “bad news” is ignored by our society because to consider it would mean major change in the business of obstetrics and midwifery. Opening your mind to the new findings in science allows us to see the "good news" about how we can change what we are doing AND we can heal ourselves -- no matter how old we are, and we can contribute to the health, wellness, peace of the planet.
The Other Side of the Glass
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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
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
Saturday, May 20, 2006
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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.
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.
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