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MotherTouch: Touch Techniques for Birth
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Manufacturer: Mosby Elsevier
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Product Description
This comprehensive 78-minute DVD guides viewers in the essentials of
supportive touch during labor and concludes with a moving homebirth.
Part I offers information about benefits, self-care for the touch
companion during birth, the importance of establishing communication
with the laboring woman and the cultivation of a safe environment. Part
II focuses on specific techniques that address different parts of the
body and common complaints, including slow labor, exhaustion, back
pain, and anxiety. Visuals include women in actual labor, utilizing a
variety of positions and techniques. Contents include: Benefits of
touch during birth. Contraindications. Use of acupressure, reflexology,
hydrotherapy. General comfort strokes. Pain relieving techniques.
Common complaints and useful touch techniques. Self-care for the touch
companion. Communication during labor. And more!....
Review
Also including scenes of nurturing touch and massage in practice in a
variety of labors and births and comments from the new mamas and their
birth attendants, this companion film to Nurturing Touch for Birth
starts up where the previous film left off. Featuring narration by
licensed massage therapist and registered nurse Leslie Stager, Touch
Techniques for Birth takes on more of a how-to role than its
predecessor. Part 1 focuses on introductory topics such as Assessing
Touch Effectiveness, Creating a Birth Massage Kit, and Remembering
Self-Care. Part 2 delves into the nitty-gritty: specific touch
techniques for supporting a birthing woman, including detailed
instruction on general massage strokes and acupressure points for use
during labor, as well as particular techniques for pain relief,
reducing anxiety and encouraging a stalled labor, among others. Each
section covers a different part of the body, complete with appropriate
techniques, benefits and contraindications; each one ends with a review
of the key points covered. One outstanding feature of this film is the
lack of staged (or staged-appearing) visuals. Almost all techniques
described by the narrator are accompanied by footage of the technique
in use in what appears to be an actual labor or birth. Once again, the
two women of MotherTouch Films have created a must-have video for
anyone who works with birthing women, especially doulas and massage
therapists, but also including midwives and nurses. While some parts
may be more technical than what is desired by the layperson, this film
also makes a great instructional video for partners, companions and
family members planning to attend a loved one s birth. --Midwifery
Today Magazine 12/2009
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