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We are continuously building up our reciprocal links with other useful sites (and email addresses) to help women network and keep themselves well-informed regarding the use of water in childbirth Do contact us if you would like to set up a link with our website or have some useful suggestions for links and resources. Thank you. Useful Websites Provides information about home birth, for parents who think that it might be the right choice for them, and for health professionals looking for facts and ideas. www.nctpregnancyandbabycare.com MIDIRS (Midwives Information and Resource Service) www.midirs.org is an educational charity set up in 1985, providing information and practical resources to maternity healthcare professionals. www.birthinternational.com - Source of educational materials A useful and informative uk family directory for parents A useful resource for sourcing baby supplies Anna offers, amongst other things, Baby Massage and Baby Yoga in south Liverpool www.hypnobirthinglancashire.co.uk Find out more about hypnobirthing in Lancashire on Norma's site 'Midwifery Guidelines for the use of Water in Labour' by Ethel Burns and Sheila Kitzinger Ethel Burns and Sheila Kitzinger have produced a new 2nd edition of the evidence-based set of practical guidelines for midwives on using water in labour and birth @ £6.50. Contact eburns@brookes.ac.uk for more information and how to order your copy - or download an order form from Sheila Kitzinger's website.
Useful Books Midirs, AIMS and the NCT all produce leaflets with information on the use of water. Other books and videos are available from: Ace Graphics, you can order a brochure at www.birthinternational.com or try ordering books from your local library as some are out of print. Titles Waterbirth an attitude to care by Dianne Garland (we also hold some copies) Water Birth Unplugged edited by Beverley Lawrence Beech (AIMS) (we also hold some copies) The Waterbirth Handbook by Dr Roger Lichy and Eileen Hertzberg (out of print) Booklet: Water Labour Water Birth. A guide to the use of water during childbirth by Annie Sprague Gentle Birth Choices by Barbara Harper. Photographs and advice on the use of water in birth. DVD's The DVD's mentioned below can be purchased from the Birth International site The Art of Birth. This Australian film explores the beauty and emotion surrounding gentle birth in water. Four births are included - two in a birth centre and two at home. Birth As We Know It. This is the story of the Russian water birth experience directed by Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova. By going to birthintobeing.com you can watch a preview of the DVD and can order it from there or alternatively from the Ace Graphics site mentioned above. There are two versions: a short version of 40 minutes and the full version of 75 minutes plus 2 additional hours of commentaries. George C. Denniston MD, MPH Retired Professor of Family Medicine, University of Washington President, Population Dynamics, Seattle WA President, Doctors Opposing Circumcision Former Associate Medical Director, Planned Parenthood Federation of America recently attended one of our Blue Lagoon Birth Workshops and has this to say about the 'Birth as We Know It' DVD. 'Every young woman in the world, before she even thinks of having a child, should see this film. She needs to know that she has a choice. The choice is between fear, and joy. Which will she choose? Before she can make that choice wisely, she must see the film, Birth as we Know it. It is about the happiest day in a woman’s life – the day she gives birth. This film will help her to have a joyous birth, instead of a possibly wretched birth. This film will help her avoid the pitfalls of “modern” medicine, which fails to recognize that birth is a normal, natural process that women have been carrying out successfully for five million years. This film will lead her toward experiencing the empowerment that a natural birth will give her, which is her birthright. It is unlikely that she will ever see as important a film again during her lifetime.' Born in water. A sacred journey. Shows seven water births filmed in the US and Guatemala. Birth in Water at John Flynn Hospital in Queensland, Australia Water Babies which shows water births in Ostend in Belgium made in 1996 |
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