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Dona International
16th Annual Conference
Film Event
August 7, 2010 7:00pm - 11:00pm

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All My Babies

This beautiful film is the story of “Miss Mary” Coley an African-American midwife more than half a century ago in rural Georgia.

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Baby Led Breast Feeding

The secret drives of the infant in this intimate relationship between mother and infant.  Kittie Frantz RN, and Christina Smillie, MD

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Birthday

Birthday
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RT 11min

This favorite short birth video, beloved by parents, childbirth educators and midwives, captures the beauty of a homebirth filmed in the countryside of Xalapa, Mexico. Narrated by mother and midwife, Naoli Vinaver.

Diana Paul, Producer/Director

 

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Birth of Sabine

Sabine’s video shows us the excitement and anticipation of a mom’s first pregnan­cy This is how one family navigates the ins and outs of pregnancy, labor and birth.

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Birth as We Know It

The impact of conscious conception, pregnancy and birth. In this stunningly beautiful video, Director Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova shares her experiences as one of the co-creators of the “Conscious Birth” movement.

 

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Delivery Self-attachment
RT 6min

Babies are able to do amazing things if allowed to be born with out interference! This video depicts the amazing innate ability a newborn baby has at birth to crawl up to a breast and attach himself unassisted.

Produced by Dr Lennart Righard and Kittie Frantz

 

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Doula

DOULA!

a new documentary film about birth and postpartum doulas. Intimate and highly emotional, the film features in close up detail three doula-supported births."

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Formula for Disaster The marketing of powdered milk has caused fewer mothers to breastfeed in the Philippines and babies suffer its harmful effects.

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Guerilla Midwife In every country on this planet, there is a WAR being fought to gain an asset more precious than gold or oil. The battlefield is a woman's body when she is giving BIRTH.

 

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Hug Your Baby Babies DO “talk” to us, but with their body and behavior. Read your baby’s body language to prevent and solve problems

 

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Its My Body, My Baby, My Birth Maria Iorillo shares homebirth stories and interviews of clients from her very multicultural practice.

 

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Kangaroo

Kangaroo Mother Care
RT 20min

This is the “How-To, Why-To” video that summarizes the latest research to prove that the newborn thrives best on his mother’s chest. How to wrap the baby to mother’s chest is also shown. Kangaroo Mother Care enables baby to relax, improves the heart rate and body temperature.

By Nils Bergman, M.D.  You can e-mail Dr. Bergman at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

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Laboring Under an Illusion

This DVD explores the media-generated myths about childbirth through over 100 video clips. Fiction is contrasted with reality using excerpts from childbirth films made for use in natural birth classes. The results are hilarious, engaging and enlightening.

 

Producer/director Vicki Elson, MA, CCE

 

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New-Rim

Reducing Infant Mortality Listen to Obstetricians, Doulas, Neonatologists, Midwives, Psycholo­gists, Pediatricians, and other Physicians explain how our health care system is failing babies and mothers and what we can do about it.

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