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 contains seven international meta studies on the influence of ultrasound scanning during pregnancy, including an Open Letter of the researcher Beverley L. Beech to the Minister of the State for Health and Social Care, UK, and comments of the world-renowned Ob/Gyns and midwives.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

“How can I explain to my husband that I want a child?”, “What if my husband doesn’t want children or is set against having a second child?” — “Ask him, why he married you!” This article of Mikhail Fomin explains the meaning of a family and contains answers to these perturbing questions that manywomen might ask when they desperately want children.

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.

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 times women pay more and more attention to pregnancy and conception, and start to think about the child long before the moment of birth. Such conscious future moms get thoroughly prepared to conceive. That includes all kinds of activities and procedures, not only medical or preventive ones, but also of educational and even spiritual nature.

Moshe Kruchik declaires hisself a first male doula in the world. Hedescribes what reflexology is and how it can work for pregnant and women in labour. His own method of assistance is not only for pregnant women but also for women at all stages of maternity: in conception, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum period and for newborns. Moshe tells in detail what the problems and diseases reflexology might help to solve and cure, and demonstrates its amazing effectiveness of the method!

The webinar is about right positionig and latching the babies on within breastfeeding (about 15 podcasts of different types of babies' sucking): really good drinking, nibbling and “borderline” drinking, various poses for breastfeeding recommended, the baby's tongue-tie,inspiration for women.