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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.

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?

Jentle birth in Bali and worldwide. Mascot for World Birth Guardians. The shift from the birth paradigm 'support-management-guidance' to the paradigm 'protection of basic needs of a woman and baby in birth'

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.

Ukrainian National Report is on women's rights in childbirth and the situation of women's consent to medical interventions during childbirth really. It is a unique and the only one since Ukraine got its independence in 1991. Prepared for and presented at Europe Summit on Human Rights in Childbirth (HRiC) in Strasbourg, France (October 19, 2016). Based on 3 Surveys and over 3,500 responds, spanning 12 tables and diagrams. Preferred to be shared among researchers, obstetricians, midwives, doulas and other birth practitioners worldwide.

I wish parenthood would be viewed as a great treasure, always having our careful attention. Our family commitments must be devoid of fears and anxiety. Much turns on the first intimacy and subsequent “honeymoon”, during which it would be desirable that lovers become the companions-in-arms of LOVE just the oppposite of taboos and prohibitions of parents’ matrices.

Monitrice (from French: she that carefully monitors) or PLA (Professional Labor Assistant) provides women the same support as doula does, but she also possesses enough qualification to monitor the condition of the mother and her child in labor on an equal basis with medical specialists.

In recent years we see an increasing number of people rights violations. Most of these violations are related to healthcare rights, especially in regard to pregnancy, birth and parenting. In this article we will look into the basic legal mistakes that are being made when providing medical assistance in prenatal care and at childbirth. You will be also provided with some research and statistics.