Yay, Cookiemonster! Me too :) We ARE the comeback to the ubiquitous comment "good luck having a nice birth" ;)
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Yay, Cookiemonster! Me too :) We ARE the comeback to the ubiquitous comment "good luck having a nice birth" ;)
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When??
I agree that this is a wonderful view of birth that should be the view women are given over the popular mass media fear and pain view we see day in and day out.
3rd October and another (forget, but I have tix for 3rd), Dr Sarah Buckley and Rhea Dempsey will present at that one. The Birth Attendants website is selling tix (can use paypal) but you'll have to google it cos I can't post the link. It's at the cinema in South Yarra :)
I am fortunate enough to have seen a full copy of this wonderful film. Unfortunately the title will be off-putting to some. The film does not focus on the potentially sexual nature of birth, rather the intimate nature of birth and the transformative potential for women and partners when left to birth 'naturally'. The movie normalises the experience of pain in labour. How many birth films actually allow you to hear the vocalisation of pain in labour...they are normally covered with fluffy soundtrack. It does not offer an unrealistic or idealic view of birth, but challenges the current medical model of birth. A wonderful film, with an unfortunate title, but well worth seeing
Was EXCELLENT!! I have ordered my copy of the film to lend out to friends :)
Gotta say, I had one of these births - wasn't sure before watching the film, but as it turns out, it was undisturbed, unobserved (until arriving at FBC for breathing DS out) and I let all those sensations wash through me and I embraced them the way you would when you've got nothing else to do with a great amount of energy.
Anyway, highly recommend seeing this film where opportunity arises.
Dr Sarah Buckley and Rhea Dempsey were wonderful, as expected.
The film differs from TBOBB in that it really doesn't dwell on the negatives (which was needed for TBOBB and addressed important things) and instead gives something to work towards (rather than against, i.e. they system) and focuses on the positives and why this kind of birth is so optimal for the birthing mother and her child. And it states right at the start that 10% of women will never be able to birth like this these days because we know they are high risk and they need medical interventions in the final weigh up of loss minimisation. So, for the rest of us, the film applies and has a valid message.
I love the title, too - it's quite appropriate, given that many of us have sex to get our babies!