Project news

The percentage of home births in Ukraine has increased from 1 to 5-6%! Information and analytical portal GreenPost media, featuring in covering topical issues in the medical field, on March 1, 2021 published the article “Why Home Birth is not for Everyone and What the Choice to Give Birth at Home Can Turn out to Be. Answers to Critical Questions and Exclusive Statistics".

A home midwife with over 20 years of experience has written about the impact of coronavirus on hospital and home births; statistics on reducing premature births and small-for-date babies, and ‘Eve settings’.

The article presents the results of 38 meta-studies (including randomized controlled trials). Why is childbirth still a business and a dangerous business? Hospital deliveries, birthing centers and hotels.

What are the main characteristics of modern gowns for labour and delivery? Where is the functionality / usability? Observations and inspiration for women from the experienced doula.

Reviews of famous midwives about the First Birthing Gowns “Miracle in the Heart” - Sister MorningStar (USA), Ruth Ehrhardt (South Africa), Valentina Ostrogliad (Ukraine), Natalia Kotlar (Russia), as well as doulas, mothers with many children and craftswomen.

Joyful reviews of first-born mothers and mothers of large families about Protective Charm Birthing Gowns “Miracle in the Heart”, which can be worn anywhere: at a hospital, home, birthing centre, birthing hotel or in nature.

Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services (AIMS), founded in 1960, observed and showed how the definition of ‘prolonged labour’ had changed since 1963 up today.

Protective Charm Birthing Gowns were created for childbirth in any place: a hospital, at home, in a birthing centre, birthing hotel, in nature. Сhildbirth is a celebration for a Woman and the whole family that rarely happens in our life, maybe only once (like wedding)!

5 years of their international work on 5 continents, mothers from the Miracle in the Heart project on natural childbirth share their findings, best practices, gifts and hopes.

Miracle in the Heart project became a Midwifery Today, Inc. Country Contact for Ukraine. What is a country contact of a global authority in midwifery and motherhood?

Debra Pascali-Bonaro gives an exclusive interview to Miracle in the Heart project on How to Make Informed Collaborative Decisions with Doula in Birth.

The article ‘Increasing Networks on Five Continents. The Primal Health Continuum of Pregnancy/Birth/Breastfeeding’ was published in the authoritative international magazine Midwifery Today, Inc. (March 2019). It contains a description of the origins and evolution of the social Miracle in the Heart project in the preparation for childbirth, protection of the basic needs of women and babies in childbirth, assistance in childbirth, and protection of the rights of women in childbirth and pregnant women in a maternity hospital and homebirth since 2014: results, initiatives, miracles.

Kiev journalist Atanaiya Ta, wrote a thoughtful article about the influence of the Soviet system on the obstetrics system in Ukraine (and in all countries of the former USSR) - "To the sound of marches". Maternity hospitals as the last bastion of the USSR (How things are going with Ukrainian maternity hospitals)'.

On September 7, 2017, Olga Stepanova, a resident of the Russian Federation and Belarus, had an unplanned homebirth and subsequently lost the baby girl in the hospital. She was judged guilty of negligence. The trial court’s sentence was “six months deprivation of liberty”. Olga spent 2 months in an isolation ward while the legal investigation in Vitebsk (Belarus) took place. The story contains many questions, and Svetlana Demyanova-Ponomarenko tried to examine it in her article. She could not remain indifferent as she had a great experience in protecting her baby’s rights after her own homebirth.

For revealing of the needs of Ukrainian women for the reformations of Ukrainian obstetrics system, as well as for the manifestations of them to the key players, we conducted the online survey (from Sept 26 to Nov 20, 2017). The results of the Survey let realise what a place for the childbirth should be to fulfill the women’s needs comprehensively.