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World’s First Global Birthing Ecovillage (Brazil)
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. -
World’s First Birthing Ecovillage Gravita (Brazil, Paraty)
Imagine the optimum place for a natural childbirth, where parents-to-be create their own “birthing nest” during pregnancy, living in one of 150 separate huts of an eco-village located in relict forests of Brazil on the ocean coast Costa Verde, between the famous Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. -
Five years of our international project “Miracle in the Heart” activity
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. -
Social Miracle in the Heart Project is a Midwifery Today, Inc. Country Contact for Ukraine
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? -
How to make informed collaborative decisions with doula in birth
Video interview with the world-renowned doula Debra Pascali-Bonaro. How to facilitate informed collaborative decision-making in any settling, e.g. when transporting from home birth to the hospital? How not to activate the neocortex of a woman in labour? And much more for pregnant women and doulas. -
Mothers Networking for the Sake of Reprotection of the Babies Primal Health Continuum: the Breast Milk Thread from Ukraine to Italy
Miracle in the Heart project speaks at the conference for the World Breastfeeding Week’2018 in Sardinia -
Miracles in Bali: meetings with Ibu Robin Lim and Debra Pascali-Bonaro. Divine Prayer for the Mothers of the World
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' -
Who in Belarus says that it is difficult to give birth? The uncoupling of the Vitebsk case
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. -
Human Rights in Childbirth National Report: UKRAINE
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. -
Whom should the doctors learn from to deliver a natural birth?
This is a fragment of the video from the project "Miracle in the Heart" to attend a roundtable discussion in the maternity hospital No.5 in Kiev (Ukraine) on the topic "Homebirth in the Maternity Hospital" on September 7, 2017. In video author offers some sources to train doctors working in maternity hospitals to deliver a natural childbirth. -
What are the basic needs of women in childbirth?
This is a fragment of the video from the project "Miracle in the Heart" to attend a roundtable discussion in the maternity hospital No.5 in Kiev (Ukraine) on the topic "Homebirth in the Maternity Hospital" on September 7, 2017. Author lists the basic needs of women in childbirth, especially focusing on the need of Security. -
2 most important things to deliver a family birth in a hospital
This is a fragment of the video from the project "Miracle in the Heart" to attend a roundtable discussion in the maternity hospital No.5 in Kiev (Ukraine) on the topic "Homebirth in the Maternity Hospital" on September 7, 2017. In this video author points out the main things to know for doctors in a maternity hospital, and taking them into account can almost guarantee an easy natural delivery in a hospital. -
Homebirth Ward in the Maternity Hospital - the first one in Ukraine
This is a video-invitation from the project "Miracle in the Heart" to attend a roundtable discussion in the maternity hospital No.5 in Kiev (Ukraine) on the topic "Homebirth in the Maternity Hospital" on September 7, 2017. The video touches upon the paradigm of attitude towards childbirth and woman in childbirth in Ukraine, a new primary health. -
It is your right to choose poses during contraction
This is a fragment of the video from the project "Miracle in the Heart" to attend a roundtable discussion in the maternity hospital No.5 in Kiev (Ukraine) on the topic "Homebirth in the Maternity Hospital" on September 7, 2017. In this video author tells us what some doctors, midwives and doulas say and that activates the neocortex of a woman in childbirth and so complicates her delivery. -
The possibility to use a pool in a maternity hospital
This is a fragment of the video from the project "Miracle in the Heart" to attend a roundtable discussion in the maternity hospital No.5 in Kiev (Ukraine) on the topic "Homebirth in the Maternity Hospital" on September 7, 2017. In this video author warns against the possibility to use a pool in a maternity hospital during delivery, if this causes excessive examinations of a woman in childbirth (it activates her neocortex). -
The delayed umbilical cord clamping has its pitfalls!
This is a fragment of the video from the project "Miracle in the Heart" to attend a roundtable discussion in the maternity hospital No.5 in Kiev (Ukraine) on the topic "Homebirth in the Maternity Hospital" on September 7, 2017. In this video author emphasises that a clamping and a cutting of an umbilical cord, no matter how solemn and pompous it may be - even if it’s done by father, or by midwife, or by doula - within the first few hours after childbirth is an incredible violation of the basic need of a mother and a child, a brutal disturbance of the balance of a blood transfer from the placenta to the child. -
You may to discharge in a birth day and take the placenta home
This is a fragment of the video from the project "Miracle in the Heart" to attend a roundtable discussion in the maternity hospital No.5 in Kiev (Ukraine) on the topic "Homebirth in the Maternity Hospital" on September 7, 2017. In this video author points out specific articles in the Ukrainian legislation and international law, so a new mother can leave a maternity hospital at any time and take her placenta with a reference to it. Non-observance of these human and civil rights in the person of a women in childbirth is a serious law violation by a maternity hospital. -
Whom does a woman need to stay with her in childbirth and after it?
This is a fragment of the video from the project "Miracle in the Heart" to attend a roundtable discussion in the maternity hospital No.5 in Kiev (Ukraine) on the topic "Homebirth in the Maternity Hospital" on September 7, 2017. In this video author recommends to choose some confident person to be present in childbirth, and not specifically a husband or a midwife. -
Is it real to organize a home birth in a maternity hospital?
This is a fragment of the video from the project "Miracle in the Heart" to attend a roundtable discussion in the maternity hospital No.5 in Kiev (Ukraine) on the topic "Homebirth in the Maternity Hospital" on September 7, 2017. In the video, the author argues why a childbirth in a maternity hospital can never be a home birth. -
Mother Hearts and Birth Activism: connection, mutual protection, re-enhancement, and re-discovery…
The welcome video from Miracle in the Heart project (proestro.com) to the expert and good friend of our project, breastfeeding peercounselor and birth-breastfeeding-primal health-activist HILDA GARST (SARDINIA), who celebrated her 20-year anniversary of her activitities for mothers, babies and families, including with Ruth Ehrhardt and Michel Odent on June 24-26, 2017. -
Perineal Ruptures during Delivery: Why and How the Sacred Gate Can Be Damaged
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. -
New Profession among Labor Assistants – Monitrice
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. -
New children or old parents. Thoughts of Marina Dadasheva-Drown about childbirth, parents, informational memory, Tantra and Igor Charkosky
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! -
Tao and Tantra, and Home Water Birth
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. -
3 Crucial Mistakes Made by Doulas, and the Parting Words for the Doulas of Russian Speaking Area
World Doula Week-2016. We conducted an interview with the French doula Valerie Dupin (Soisy-sous-Montmorency, France) especially for our project. Valerie is a mother of 2 children, teacher of National Childbirth Trust, doula in Scotland (since 1990), doula in France (since 2001). Co-founder, co-chair and mentor of the Association Doulas de France . Co-founder and tutor of the Institut de Formation Doulas de France, mentor of the European Doula Network. -
3 key tips for aspiring doulas. How a doula could find her first clients?
World Doula Week 2016. Let us present you our present that might be helpful for experienced and aspiring doulas, — the video interview with a doula Irina Sergeyeva (Melbourne, Australia), especially for the social project ‘Miracle in the Heart’. -
Sound healing in pregnancy and birth
Sound is the first external signal, which the child realizes and percieves in the mother´s womb. The webinar will help you to listen to your heartbeat and breathing, in order to find and establish the connection with your child. You will learn which sounds and sound combinations help to establish this magical connection. The sounds that transmit our essence. The sounds that will help to delate at childbirth. What is important for the woman at childbirth and how to create an exceptionally deep connection with your child. -
Working with Families from Challenging Situations – Midwife’s Storytelling from the Philippines and India
The unique experience of the British midwife who dedicated her life to the assistance to women bearing and delivering their babies in critical living conditions. Her stories move to tears. Line tells about situations he faced with, helping and assert women’s rights in the Philippines and India, as well as about a hearty treatment to a woman, about the power of intention to support poor people in their right of the provision of medical care in state hospitals. -
Global Movement for a Humanized Birth - My Contribution as a Male Midwife
Fernando says about his vision about the birth humanization. The webinar is about a real role of men in the birth process, as well as about does it worth for a father to participate in childbirth, and what can he give his wife. Fernando tells what a male midwife should know and be a good hang in establishing confidence and a contact with a woman. -
Fears of Midwives and Women in Childbirth
Peace speaker – Eneyda - with extensive experience in homebirth assistance, tells about the importance of a peaceful and harmonious state for women in labour. How to protect yourself, as the midwife and doula from different fears? Eneyda instills confidence and support in specialists who are engaged in midwifery, reminding them about the importance of practice that must be constantly gained. -
Ana Pavec - Doula support in hospitals - World Doula Week'2015
Story of the licenced doula about her personal experience in assisting in childbirth. -
How the Doula Can Create a Favourable Environment for Natural Childbirth in Maternity Hospitals
The hormonal space induced by natural labour, opens a very special state for the mother to "let go" her baby: praying, reciting mantra (improvised as well !) can favorise the production of oxytocin and endorphines. -
European Doula Network (EDN): «Peculiarities of the European Doula's activities»
Lisa tells about European Doula network (EDN) activities as a NGO worldwide: history, goals, connections, procedures of its work. -
How the Doula Might Assist the Woman in Birth in the Repressive Maternity Care System
The webinar is about peculiarities of the healthcare system in Slovenia and the means of Slovenian doulas to assist women in birth in hospitals. -
How to Provide Natural Childbirth – Magic of ‘Warm, Calm, Dark’
The webinar of lenegendary MD, humanist and educator Michel Odent's is about: the 'shy' hormone oxytocin naturally and exteremely required for women in birth and their babies (physiological and emotional aspect), the role of 'knitting' midwife in assisting a childbirth process, correlation between adrenalin and neocortex; between neocortex and the woman's environment.