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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.

The article considers thephysical and psychological reasons of rhesus incompatibility in pregnancy referring to the world statistics and wide-known practitioners in obstetrics, psychology, midwifery, and naturopathy. The article outlines the ways to define a real Rh-incompatibility and the doctors’ “overdiagnosis”. The article contains a research of the reasons to use Rh-immunoglobulins (anti D-immunoglobulins (predominantly RhoGAM®) in pregnancy and childbirth. There are inspirational techniques for you to create a perfect tandem with your child in the way of “win-to-win” in the view of the female nature in passing to your gentle childbirth and blessing maternity.

For the purpose of our initiative to implement alternative obstetrics in Ukraine (you can find more details here), OlhaVereshchak and OlhaGorbenko, doulas andprofessionalsof the ‘Semitsvet Family Development Center’, have written an open letter to our Minister of Health of Ukraine inviting his attention to a very important problem – the inadequacy of obstetric aid system in Ukraine, whichjeopardizesthe reproductive functions of a woman and the health of our children!

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.

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.

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!