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The Global Birthing Village GRAVITA is the fifth and fundamentally new type of the place for childbirth for the modern world. Located in one of the most environmentally friendly places in the world, GRAVITA includes all the advantages of places for childbirth and eliminates their shortcomings.

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?

Miracle in the Heart project speaks at the conference for the World Breastfeeding Week’2018 in Sardinia

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.

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.

How waterbirths were carried out in the Soviet Union, what was the Tao of Marina Dadasheva’s spiritual midwifery, what secrets do Marina Dadasheva and Colin Drown use during and after deliveries? For the first time ever, personal memories of Marina Dadasheva-Drown are on the Internet!

Home waterbirths can be so happy and healthy. I have been fortunate to assist midwife Marina (editor’s note: Dadasheva-Drown) and to witness many of these ecstatic deliveries. These births were a result of the ‘training’ that the pregnant women undertook with spiritual midwife Marina. The training involves not only the physical but also the mind (especially the mind’s ‘attitude’) and the spirit. The prenatal training is a preparation for labor and delivery and also prepares the mother for vigorous postnatal dynamic gymnastics for baby. Yoga is a very good preparation as is swimming.