PushLinks

http://www.youtube.com/user/BigPushTube

The Big Push for Midwives Campaign empowers midwife advocates and moms/dads groups as they promote increased access to out-of-hospital maternity care and the Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) who are specially trained to provide it. Our dedicated campaigners, or "Pushers" as they are affectionately known, help to educate the people in power (at the insurance companies, in the hospital associations, in the Statehouses, and on Capitol Hill) about the reduced costs and improved outcomes associated with using out-of-hospital maternity care and Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs), who are specially trained to provide it. The Big Push campaign works to widely share the stories of U.S. citizens who choose CPMs as their maternity care providers and the multiple benefits to society that come from fully integrating out-of-hospital birth and Certified Professional Midwives into the health care systems of our states.

http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/all_my_babies_a_midwifes_own_story/

Both educational tool and poetic portrait of a black midwife and childbirth in the Deep South. “This beautiful film is the story of “"Miss Mary"” Coley an African-American midwife more than half a century ago in rural Georgia. Conceived as a demonstration film for “"granny"” midwives its production sponsored by the Georgia Department of Public Health All My Babies quickly transcended its initial purpose. It was used around the world by UNESCO and has become an enduring classic of non-fiction film. All My Babies was written produced and directed by George C. Stoney in close collaboration with Mrs. Coley as well as with local public health doctors and nurses and shows the preparation for and home delivery of healthy babies in both relatively good and bad rural conditions among black families at that time. The film is in addition both a deeply respectful portrait of “"Miss Mary"” who is revealed as an inspiring human being and a record of the actual living conditions of her patients. Selected in 2002 by the Librarian of Congress as a “"culturally historically and artistically significant work"” for permanent preservation in the National Film Registry.”

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124559259

Brenda Wilson - Cesarean birth rates are steadily rising and still less than 10 percent of women have successful vaginal births after cesareans. A National Institutes of Health panel has been examining the clinical risks and benefits of vaginal births after cesareans — as well as legal, ethical and economic considerations. ...

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=7254220

http://reducinginfantmortality.com/

http://www.lifeinmotionphotography.com/slideshows/amerlyn/
A lovely, tasteful home birth.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/30516507#30516507
Meredith Vieira talks with actress and former talk show host Ricki Lake and film director Abby Epstein about their book, "Your Best Birth."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eblQAAIHBM
Birth Celeb Earth Lande performs a passionate spoken word piece that promises to Transform How You See Birth!

www.ryanishungry.com/2009/01/21/home-birth-diy-labor-and-delivery
We first met Katherine and Todd through LocalHarvest.org as our closest Community Supported Agriculture provider. We quickly became interested in their story as small farmers trying to make a living growing food and selling it locally. Needless to say we started documenting work on their farm the week after we signed up for their CSA share. A month into taping, Katherine said "I hope this doesn't affect the story, but I'm three months pregnant". As you can see, it didn't just affect the story, it helped us go deeper into it, focusing on the fact that they were planning a home birth.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tLzjyuJdiQ
"Birth Right" is a short documentary created by Emily Jackson and Neeta Kirpalani, students in the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Ethnographic Filmmaking class, which explores the efforts of the Alabama Birth Coalition to legalize Certified Professional Midwife- attended home birth. In times past the state of Alabama licensed thousands of state-trained midwives who served Alabama's families. Today there are zero legally-recognized midwives providing home birth services.

http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahradio/moz/20081118_oaf_moz

www.youtube.com/birthtalk
Legalize and license home birth midwives in Illinois!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNJA4k-2OkI&feature=player_embedded