Born at Home | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer
A documentary centring on women's experience of home births. | dG1fbkNpY0QzNjlUYms
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00:00 Birth is...
00:02 um...
00:04 wild.
00:06 Yeah, but birth is...
00:08 It's a full portal for both of you,
00:10 you know, the birthing of the
00:12 baby and then the rebirthing
00:14 of the mother, you know, into
00:16 motherhood. Birth changes her.
00:18 It allows her to be her most vulnerable
00:20 self. A self that is not seen
00:22 outside of her home
00:24 ever or often.
00:26 Physiology of birth,
00:28 we've lost it, we've forgotten what it's about.
00:30 The central focus is on
00:32 a uterus and a cervix opening and a
00:34 baby coming out, when really the
00:36 physiology of birth is hormonal.
00:38 I appreciate
00:40 what the medical
00:42 system has to offer in terms of
00:44 working with complicated
00:46 births and emergency procedures.
00:48 The hospital is
00:50 an institution and it runs in its own
00:52 way, on its own time, with its own
00:54 protocols and you're trying to fit into
00:56 that and there's no right... it's not
00:58 the blame game but if she's had no
01:00 continuity of care, that's the claim.
01:02 Choosing to have a home birth
01:06 is really a great way of increasing
01:08 your chance of physiological birth and
01:10 optimising the hormonal flows
01:12 in labour and birth.
01:14 Birth has always occurred in women's
01:16 homes or in the community, in
01:18 a birth hut or a home nearby
01:20 and surrounded by women.
01:22 It's not rocket science, it's not new,
01:24 it's historically where
01:26 birth was.
01:28 My ancestors have been doing this
01:30 for generations
01:32 upon generations upon generations.
01:34 Women are stronger than they believe.
01:36 We know we have the
01:38 capacity to do this
01:40 our way. It's more
01:42 than just you should be happy to have
01:44 a healthy baby. It should be about
01:46 yes, you have a healthy baby.
01:48 Yes, you're healthy yourself
01:50 but you're also
01:52 mentally, emotionally and
01:54 spiritually intact.
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