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7.26.2008

Birth Videos

OK - I am often asked for a list of birth videos either online, at the library, or in my library (in other words, easily accessible). So, here is my list of YouTube birth videos. All of these are ones I would recommend to people so that they can see what normal, natural birth in a hospital or home setting looks like. Some have more intervention than others, some have children participating, some are u/a, but all are what Birth in America looks like. Enjoy!

Birth Videos:
Miscellaneous Videos for Labor and Birth
Keys to Terms and Acronyms:
  • PROM - premature ruptured membranes (water broke, no established labor)
  • VBAC - vaginal birth after cesarean (any number between the A and C is how many cesareans)
  • HBAC - homebirth after cesarean
  • Unassisted - no medically trained professional in attendance at birth
  • UBAC - unassisted birth after cesarean
  • Posterior - Back of babies head is against mom's spine... optimally, babies face is against mom's spine.
  • GD - gestational diabetes, diabetes brought on by pregnancy

10 comments:

  1. Shelly31/7/08

    What a great resource! Thanks!

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  2. Leigh Steele19/10/08

    Thank you, thank you! I love this and will share it with my clients.

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  3. Anonymous6/3/11

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDexz5ObYzQ

    this is my friend Georgia's beautiful australian birth center water birth of her 42 wks+, 10 lb 7 oz, posterior son, Theo.

    by far the most gorgeous 8 min of birth film I have seen yet. (though I have yet to watch my own son's birth video! ;) )

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  4. Nicole D7/3/11

    thanks elliott365

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  5. Anonymous5/4/11

    some shameless self-promotion: here is my son's home waterbirth. :)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxpy0F3t3mY

    xo,
    Rebecka

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  6. Lynn28/1/12

    Thanks for putting together all of these birth stories!

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  7. Trisha29/4/12

    I am a doula in Australia and was looking through your site, even put a few links on my FB page. When looking at this page I see that you have one of my daughter Tehya's and Abbey's homebirths listed!

    Glad that you like them enough to share :)

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  8. Midwife International23/8/12

    Wow! Thanks so much for sharing so many great resources and beautiful birthing mamas and birth advocates around the world. We appreciate the way your birth education at Midwife International.

    At Midwife International we work to educate by training midwives who are equipped to work in resource-constrained regions around the world. For more information please visit: http://midwifeinternational.org/midwife-training/.

    Thank you for all you do!

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  10. Unknown8/1/16

    It would be nice if this list could be updated. Many of the videos are no longer available :/

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