Gentle Birth Choices: Birth as Every Woman Would Like it to Be (DVD)

See the power of women during childbirth

Winner – Telly award

I love it! It covers so many issues that are relevant. I show it everywhere. — Mary Jo Terril, RN, OB Nurse

This DVD presents all the options for natural childbirth, (standing, squatting, waterbirth, home birth), with information about midwives, vaginal birth after caesarean, birth centers and circumcision, with national experts.

Based on Barbara Harper’s book, Gentle Birth Choices, this documentary presents birth as every woman would like it to be. It beautifully reveals the magic and the mystery of birth through the experience of six women actually giving birth — where and how they choose (standing, squatting, waterbirth, homebirth). They are family-centered and attended by midwives or OB/GYN.

Many have a concern about having unnecessary hospital birthing procedures, and this documentary guides women in their desire to be in charge of their birth experience, answers questions couples have about birth, and dispels many commonly held beliefs.

Produced by The Global Maternal Child Health Association.