International Week for Respecting Childbirth (English)

A navel (ENCA-Netherlands)

Sun, 15 May 2011 23:15:00 +0200

A navel
par ENCA-Netherlands

One of our members of ENCA-Netherlands did make this wonderful picture show for the International Respecting Childbirth Week!!!

weekofrespectingchildbirth2011 english

Please have a look and circulate it!

With love,

ENCA-Netherlands

Thea and Hannie

Birth where, how and with whom you want (Bulgaria)

Sun, 15 May 2011 21:14:00 +0200

WORLD RESPECTED CHILDBIRTH WEEK "Birth where, how and with whom you want”

City of Sofia

15.05.2011

18.30 - Movie: Birth as a Human Right Issue. A beautiful film about the right and freedom of choice regarding childbirth. - Yantra yoga studio (33 Nezabravka St.)

16.05.2011

18.30 - Hands-on seminar about alternative pain relief and the role of the doula during childbirth. Reality in Bulgarian hospitals. - Office of Estestveno (27 Todor Stoyanov St.)

17.05.2011

Estestveno’s website. Tell us about medical professionals who respected your freedom of choice during childbirth. At the end of the week we shall collect your stories and send them to the respective hospitals. Through this initiative we would like to express gratitude towards medical practitioners who respected our rights in such a special moment as giving birth. We would also like them to know how important their actions were in making birth a positive experience. Each one of us can search our memories and find something to be thankful for. Let us give this positive feedback, so they know how important it is to us that our needs were respected. For your convenience we have created a brief form which can be downloaded here. Please fill it out and send it to us at: info@estestveno.com

19.05.2011

18.00 – Creative workshop under the theme “My birth” for pregnant women and mothers of 0 - 2 year-olds. We are going to look at our future or past birth from a different angle. We will share what we liked and did not like; our dreams and memories; we will express our feelings and experiences through art. Let us talk about and draw our childbirth together! - Yantra yoga studio (33 Nezabravka St.). As spots for the workshop are limited, please sign-up at: any.atanasova@gmail.com

22.05.2011

11.00 - Borisova Gradina (Central city park), happening “Birth - freedom of choice”/the right to make a choice?/

City of Varna

15.05.2011

10.30 - Movie: Birth as a Human Right Issue. Lecture “The importance of birth for a person’s further life”, Diana Dimitrova, midwife, University professor. Discussion of movie and lecture.

18.05.2011

Successful Childbirth Practices – Maria Hristova, Estestveno

The doula as a childbirth assistant (Maria Hristova from Estestveno)

Demonstration of traditional techniques during childbirth (Galya Stambolieva from Rodilnitza)

10.05.2011

6 Steps to a healthy birth (Milena Dyankova)

Creative workshop: My birth – Ivelina Krasteva, psychologist

For more details, please visit: www.estestveno.com, www.rodilnitza.com

The schedule continues to be updated. We are expecting input from other organizations and towns. Please follow www.estestveno.com.

Natural Nesters (New Mexico, USA)

Tue, 10 May 2011 22:19:00 +0200

In celebration of International Week for Respecting Childbirth, Natural Nesters will be promoting childbirth awareness in the community with a birth survey contest, a free childbirth class, and a doula tea. In addition, the Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative, Highlights of the Evidence Basis for the Ten Steps of Mother-Friendly Care, and The Birth Survey will be mailed to Lea Regional Medical Center to evaluate their current practices and adopt new policies and procedures that lead to improved maternal and neonatal health outcomes and possible designation as a "mother-friendly" hospital. For more information, please contact Katrina Fuller, CCCE, CLE, CLD, BPC at (575) 392-4874. Thank you for your time and cooperation in making this year's International Week for Respecting Childbirth a success!

In Peace, Love, and Light,
Katrina Fuller, CCCE, CLE, CLD, BPC

Natural Nesters
Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum, & Breastfeeding
Education, Support, & Integral Therapy Services
By Appointment Only
Hobbs, New Mexico 88240
(575) 392-4874

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The mission of Natural Nesters is to advocate, educate, and support women to trust their bodies' and babies' instinctual abilities as a normal life process, empower them to make informed decisions supported by current, evidence-based research, and embrace pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and breastfeeding with confidence and success.

Birthchoices and Patient's Rights at Birth (Austria)

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:54:00 +0100

15-22 May 2011 in Vienna and Lower Austria

To be able to make a good decision concerning place of birth, OB/GYN or/and midwife and birthing method it is important to collect information and to be aware of all choices you have in pregnancy and birth. Knowledge about your rights as a pregnant and birthing woman strengthens your position in conversation and conflict with doctors, midwives and clinic staff to enforce your demands and ideas. As parents-to-be you are clients and you can accept expertises, advices and assistance, but also have the option to choose freely and determine which medical (routine) measures you or your baby will undergo. Ideally you are sure of what you want and what you don’t want in advance.

SUNDAY, 15 May 2011
WORKSHOP Choices for my Birth: Information and Decision guidance where, with whom and how you want to give birth, Time: 3-6 pm, Location: Praxis Tania Spalt, Ameisgasse 11, 1140 Vienna, Austria, Fee: 14 Euro (for Childbirth-Alliance-Austria Members only 8 Euro) + one accompanying person free! (Partner, Mother, Sister, Friend)

Thursday, 19 May 2011
WORKSHOP My Birthstory – My Dreambirth: Which Influence do I have on the Birthing-Process?, Time: 6.30-9.30 pm, Location: Praxis Tania Spalt, Ameisgasse 11, 1140 Vienna, Austria, Fee: 14 Euro (for Childbirth-Alliance-Austria Members only 8 Euro) + one accompanying person free! (Partner, Mother, Sister, Friend)

Friday, 20 May 2011
LECTURE Conception, Pregnancy and Birth as Mirror of Your Former Life: lifetask could be defined in the moment of conception as well as the feeling of meaningfulness may find its creation, Time: 4-5.30 pm, Location: VHS Hietzing, 1130 Vienna, Austria, Fee: 5 Euro (for Childbirth-Alliance-Austria Members free)
LECTURE My Patient’s Rights in the Clinic: What can I refuse? What can I request?, Time: 6-7.30 pm, Location: VHS Hietzing, 1130 Vienna, Austria, Fee: 7 Euro (for Childbirth-Alliance-Austria Members only 4 Euro)

Friday till sunday 20-22 May 2011
SEMINAR Cesarean Section – Healing Wounds together: Accounting for the past, Location: Breitenfurt/NOE, Time: Friday 6-8 am, Saturday 9 am-9pm, Sunday 9am-3pm
Fee: 170-240 Euro self-assessment depending on one’s financial possibilities, plus proportional costs for seminar room: 25 Euro.

CHILDBIRTH ALLIANCE AUSTRIA is a grassroots organization for babyfriendly and motherfriendly birthcare. Because of the high medical intervention rate and resultant high dissatisfaction at mothers and fathers we provide information and take action to spreed the word for self-determined and woman-centered birth-experiences. We inform about birthchoices and patient’s rights in pregnancy, birth and first time with your baby. Watch out our Online-Shop for DVDs about pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, bonding, attachment, parenting, infant mental health and raising children.

Subscribe to our Newsletter here: www.geburtsallianz.at

World Week 2010

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:01:00 +0200

After discussing the matter with motivated partners we finalized the theme and date for the World Respecting Childbirth Week in 2010.

The date will be 16 to 23 May 2010. Please feel free to organize events (reasonably) off-period. As you know, important projects may happily be realized pre- and post-term! The most important thing is to link many events with the campaign and relay them on social networks.

This year's theme will be "BIRTH TRAUMA, BIRTH PLEASURE".

There are many different ways of interpreting this motto and translating it to Roman languages. We feel that it makes it easy to adapt the campaign to priorities perceived by various actors in various countries. "Birth" may evoke women's labour or the birth of a child. Thus it will be possible to focus the campaign on birthing women, parents, families or babies. Needles to say, several meanings may be associated with the words "trauma" and "pleasure".

Please circulate this announcement as widely as possible and translate it to more languages. We look forward to receiving presentations of the theme in various languages as it will be declined in different parts of the world.

Resources 2009 (EN)

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:10:00 +0100

Home Birth: The Gold Standard of Cesarean Prevention (Dale Bernucca)

Meditations on the Rising Cesarean Rate (Plante LA.)

Orgasmic birth - World premiere

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:16:00 +0200

Orgasmic birth
USA 2008, 85 min, director Debra Pascali Bonaro

Joyous, sensuous and revolutionary, Orgasmic Birth brings the ultimate challenge to our cultural myths by inviting viewers to see the emotional, spiritual, and physical heights attainable through birth. Witness the passion as birth is revealed as an integral part of woman’s sexuality and a neglected human right.

WORLD PREMIERE

Friday May 16, 5 p.m.
Kino Perštýn, Praha 1, Czech Republic
during the World Respected Childbirth Week

sponsored by
UNIPA – Union of Midwives
Czech Doula Association
Movement for Active Mothering

www.orgasmicbirth.com
www.respektkporodu.cz

Petition Platform for the rights of birth

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:57:00 +0100

Plataforma Pro Derechos del Nacimiento (PDN)
C/Santapau, 59 1º
08016-BARCELONA

http://www.pangea.org/pdn
E-mail: pdn(arobase)pangea.org

Barcelona, 20th. Of April, 2008

Dear Sir or Madam,

I´m writing this letter on behalf of "Plataforma Pro Derechos del Nacimiento" (platform for the rights of birth). This entity, formed by associations and individuals, will be celebrating this year its tenth anniversary.

Our principal target is asking our state health system to take responsibility for the financing of natural birth, regardless of the mother's decision to give birth at a private clinic, a hospital or at home. And above all, that parents will always see their will respected.

We want the recommendations made by the OMS (WHO, World Health Organization) in regard to the rights of the pregnant woman and the baby to be respected in our country, Spain. These recommendations were collected and published by the OMS (WHO) at the International Conference at Fortaleza (Brazil), on the 22nd. and 26th. of April, 1985. Among these rights are the following points:

• The new-born must always be with its mother if they are both in healthy conditions. There should be no medical examination to justify the parting of the mother and the healthy child.
• Breast-feeding should be encouraged as soon as possible, even before the mother and her baby leave the maternity ward.
• Birth giving women should not be lying down on their backs (in the traditional obstetrical position) during childbirth. Women should be encouraged to walk during the dilatation period and be able to choose the position they want to give birth in.
• Childbirth must not be induced for convenience. No birth should be artificially provoked if it is not strictly and medically necessary. No country should have artificial induced births above a 10% rate.

We are aware of the fact that childbirth conditions leave permanent marks in human beings and that the interruption of the natural process of birth interferes in the relationship between mother and child in the short and long run. We would like to spread this information to make it get to as many people as possible.

We intend to spend this year gathering documentation on current investigations in this area.

We would appreciate if you could send us any scientific research in the topic of the effects derived from separating mother and child in the short and long term.

With best regards,

Merche Escursell
Plataforma Pro Derechos del Nacimiento (PDN)

The Miracle of Birth

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:05:00 +0200

Normal Birth international conference

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:36:40 +0200

This conference organised by Union of Midwives (UNIPA) will take place in Prague from 10 to 12 May 2007 as part of the World Respecting Childbirth Week.

• Program in English
• Program in Czech

Contact unipa(arobase)unipa.cz

Other events during the World Respecting Childbirth Week in the Czech Republic include:

• A multimedia exhibition The Art of Birthing, 7 - 13 May 2007
• The Baby Expo trade fair, 11 - 13 May 2007