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Home > DVDs > MotherTouch: Nurturing Touch for Birth
MotherTouch: Nurturing Touch for Birth
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Product Description
This unique film features the integrated use Of touch in varying stages
of four women s Labors and birth. Powerful imagery, evocative music,
and inspiring narration lead the viewer through this 23-minute visual
experience of nurturing touch for birth at home and in the hospital. A
perfect addition to childbirth education classes and doula trainings
and inspiration to midwives, nurses, and pregnant mothers and their
birth companions who wish to include nurturing touch techniques in
their support of mothers-to-be.
Review
In nearly every culture, attentive nurturing touch has been used to
support, encourage and guide a woman through the natural rhythms of
bringing a child into this world. Calling on the birth practices of
women throughout human history, this beautiful half-hour film documents
the use of touch and massage in four different births. Featuring
reflections on their experiences with touch during labor from the
birthing mamas, their birth partners and birth attendants, and comments
from well-known midwives (including Traditional Mexican Midwife Doña
Irene Sotelo Alvarez), the film makes the assertion that we, as humans,
are sensual beings and as such, touch is one of the most powerful forms
of support we can give a birthing woman... The interviews and narration
are interspersed with footage from the two in-hospital and two at-home
labors and births, showing birth partners and attendants supporting
each woman with touch techniques ranging from simple hand-holding and
stroking to specific massage strokes and holds. This video makes an
excellent teaching tool for midwives, doulas and childbirth educators,
and a wonderful birth preparation tool for moms-to-be to share with
their birth partners. --Midwifery Today Magazine 12/2009 |
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