This is a TV series from the UK, that is available on youtube. It is three parts and gives the background to why this couple chose homebirth, shows the preparation and finally the birth of their baby. Enjoy!

I was googling today (checking out gossip that Angelina Jolie is planning a homebirth – but that’s another post) and I found this beautiful blog . Lisa is a homebirth midwife in South Australia and her blog is really very  thoughtfully and intelligently written. There’s lots of great information there for anyone with an interest in homebirth. I particularly liked her post about birth plans, given that we touch on this topic in our classes.

My birth plans have been quite similar to the one Lisa has written up in the post. Essentially my plans came down to ‘No to everything, unless I say it’s OK’.

Well, check it out, and we may get back to Angelina shortly!

Happy International Midwives day!!

Yesterday Tanya, Jodi, Toni and I attended a screening of The Business of Being Born hosted by the Wellington Homebirth Association. This was also an early celebration of Midwives day.

The movie was very powerful. Although we are very privileged in New Zealand to have so many midwives working with women, we need to protect and promote normal birth.  Despite a system that is seen by many overseas to be an ideal, we still have a soaring c-section rate and many women are traumatised by highly medicalised births.

We hope to be able to host a screening of the movie later in the year so that everyone in Kapiti gets a chance to enjoy it!

Kapiti Birthing would like to thank all those wonderful wise midwives who a guardians of normal birth – especially those in our local community!