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

What a Baby Needs

The early preconception through postnatal period -- the primal period -- is now scientifically confirmed to be the origin of health and illness; wellness and dysfunctions; joy and pain; and fear and love in the human being. Scientifically and logically, there is no break in the continuum of brain development from conception through birth, infancy, childhood, and adult life. Therefore, it's easy to see that the resolution of any health or emotional issues related to where and how birth is safe, must look at the pre and perinatal development, fetal experience, and birthing baby's experience, based on what a human being needs at each stage.
(References: Primal Health, by Michele Odent, MD, Life in the Womb: The Origin of Health and Disease by Peter Nathanielsz, MD, PhD, Association for Pre and Perinatal Psychology and Health at www.birthpsychology.com, and BEBA, www.beba.org.)
What every baby needs in the earliest BRAIN development - from conception throughout pregnancy, birth, and beyond - in order to live his or her highest potential is:
  • To be wanted and welcomed at conception by two loving adults who are physically, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, and financially prepared to be parents.
  • To have complete nutrition and a toxin-free womb in order to build a healthy, fully functioning brain and body.
  • To feel safe and protected by parents throughout pregnancy and birth.
  • For parents to be in respectful, loving relationship and to have as little stress as possible throughout pregnancy and birth.
  • To be emotionally connected with and nurtured by parents throughout pregnancy, at birth, and beyond.
  • To have his or her own biologically programmed impulse and timing for birth while in continued relationship with the mother and safety of the father.
  • To complete the biologically programmed self-attachment sequence of coming to the breast in his or her own timing – resting in the arms of the mother and father and without interventions.
Clearly, a baby needs to be conceived, gestated, and born into a world that is welcoming, safe, nuturing, and loving - rather than being unwanted, violent, abandoned, and poorly nourished. This is not only logical but scientifically based. A baby needs a drug-free, peaceful birth in connection with his or her mother. Because it matters. In the brain. Pun intended.
The newborn baby's brain has more than a billion neurons and each one is experiencing the labor and birth experience and the new world.

Everyone present during labor and birth, everything said and done by them is imprinted in each of these billion cells. It creates the first perception of the world. Imprinting of maternal experience has been happening in the developing baby's system since conception. Science tells us that the gestating baby's body and brain is fully formed by the end of the first trimester. From conception forward the baby, as every living organism, is developing and surviving in struggle between growth or protection. Of course, from conception forward, the baby is growing, developing, and learning. Science tells us that babies are highly sensory. For example, they hear and interact with the outside womb, especially in the last trimester.

My upcoming articles will address the information in the previous paragraph and the stages more in depth. I am asking you expand your thinking to also consider how we treat conception, pregnancy, and what we are doing to babies during labor and birth and the first hours and days of life. No other period of time is so critical as the pre-conception through infancy period of life.

My next posts will be specifically about the needs of the laboring and birthing baby.

Be a Baby Keeper!!

Janel

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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.