VI. Videos in Birth Psychology

The Miracle of Life (1983). 60 mins.
The first filmed record of human conception featuring the intrauterine photography of Swedish pioneer, Lennart Nilsson. Emmy Award Winner. Produced by Swedish Television in association with WGBH Boston. Sold at many video outlets.

First Attachment (1986). 14 minutes. Kittie Frantz
Introduces mothers to breastfeeding. First volume of seven in the series on Breastfeeding Techniques That Work. Geddes Productions, 10546 McVine Ave., Sunland, CA 91040. Tel 818-951-2809.($39.95)

A Gift for the Unborn Children (1986). 26 minutes. Script by Laura Uplinger
Combines the images of nature with the testimony of experts to reveal the inherent spirituality of pregnancy and birth. Bradley Boatman Productions, Available from Prosveta USA. Tel: 904-428-1465, or see the website. www.prosveta-usa.com ($15.95)

The Birth of a Sick or Handicapped Baby: Impact on the family (1986).
57 minutes, in color. An examination of the struggles of parents and siblings to integrate a handicapped or sick newborn into the family. Long-term consequences for emotional and mental development of all participants. Produced by Michael Trout. Order via:
www.infant-parent.com/videos.htm . $150.

Knowing the Unborn (1988). 29 minutes. By Royda and Kelley Ballard
Interviews of parents and authorities in pre- and perinatal psychology and health focus on newly-discovered abilities of the unborn; some intrauterine scenes. . Available from the producers: Ballard. ($39.95)

Channel for a New Life (1988). 37 minutes. By Elizabeth Noble and Leo Sorger, M.D.,
The natural drama of the outdoor waterbirth of Carsten Noble Sorger. Available from: www.elizabethnoble.com/order.html . ($45.)

Water Baby: Experiences of Waterbirth (1986) 58 minutes, color.
An in-depth look at the newest innovation in safe, gentle, joyous and empowering childbirth. Features four waterbirths in home, hospital and birth center settings. Shot in the USA, France and Russia, the film includes extensive sequences with Dr. Michael Rosenthal, Dr. Michel Odent, and Igor Charkovsky; the world's first waterbirth pioneers, and much more. http://www.waterbirthinfo.com/materials.html ($59 -$95).

Special Delivery: Creating the Birth You Want for You and Your Baby (1989). 43 minutes. By Rahima Baldwin

Birth preparation and birth of three couples at a hospital, birthing center, and at home. Available from Informed Birth and Parenting, P. O. Box 1733, Fair Oaks, CA 95628 (916-961-6923) ($39.95)

Body-Centered Hypnosis for Childbirth (1989). 55 minutes. by Gayle Peterson
Training film for professionals incorporating relaxation exercises, indirect hypnotic suggestions for normal delivery and prenatal bonding, and visualizations. Shadow and Light Productions, 1749 Vine St. Berkeley, CA 94703. ($40.)

Lovenotes: Music for the Unborn Child (1989). 48 mins. By Dr. Norma Zemke.
A five-session experiential course for pregnant parents utilizing music and relaxation to facilitate loving communication with the unborn child. A 72-page manual contains complete lesson plans incorporating the audiotape of lullabies and folksongs. Video presents a demo of the first class and interviews with parents. Silver Lake College Publications, Manitowoc, WI. Tel: 414-684-6691. ($54.95) lzemke@sl.edu

Healing Birth Trauma in Children: A Seminar for Parents and Professionals (1990). 60 min. Produced by William Emerson, Ph.D. Emerson Training Seminars
Documentary of work with four families in which birth games are demonstrated and parents are taught techniques to assist their children. Availabe by calling (707-763-7024). ($37)

Home Birth in Holland: From Pregnancy to Motherhood (1990). 45 minutes. Produced by Highlight Productions, San Francisco/Netherlands Association of Midwives.
Prenatal care, three home births, and postnatal care attended by midwives illustrates normalcy of birth. Birth and Life Bookstore, 141 Commercial St. N.E., Salem, OR 97301. ($29.95)

Delivery Self-Attachment (1992). 6 minutes. By doctors L. Righard and M. Alade, produced by Kittie Frantz.
Segment from a Swedish study demonstrating the effect of delivery routines on first feeding experience. Newborns unmedicated and left undisturbed on their mothers for at least an hour after birth, crawl to the breast and suckle. Geddes Productions, Sunland, CA: 818-951-2809. ($14.95).

In Honor of Pregnant Women: Pregnant Bellymasks (1992). 25 minutes. By Francine Krause.
Presents the artistic process of bodycasting during pregnancy as a vehicle for nurture, self-expression, celebration, and remembrance of pregnancy. Francine Krause, P.O. Box 1024, Guerneville, CA 95446. ($24.95) Do-It-Yourself Kits also available with detailed instructions. ($53)

New Fathers, New Lives (1993). 28 mins.
A video to help men make the transition to fatherhood features a panel of four new fathers and a studio audience of forty men, all with at least one child under a year old. Includes a single teenage dad and a marketing executive with a toddler and twins. Available from InJoy Videos, Boulder at $49.95. Tel. 1-800-326-2082. More info at www.injoyvideos.com

Gentle Birth Choices (1993). 47 mins. By Barbara Harper
Shows six births at home, in a birth center, squatting, waterbirths, hands and knees, and VBAC. , Global Maternal/Child Health Association, P. O. Box 1400, Wilsonville, OR 97070. Fax: 503-682-3434. ($39.95) waterbirth@aol.com

Babies Know More Than You Think. (1993, updated). 58 minutes. Produced by Michael Mendizza
David Chamberlain and Suzanne Arms have a lively conversation about the scientific evidence for sentience and intelligence of babies both in the womb and at birth, and the implications for parenthood and obstetrics. . Available from Touch the Future, Solvang, CA 93464. ($29) Michael@TTFuture.org

The Loving Touch Infant Massage (1993). 22 minutes. By Ruth Rice, Ph.D.
Demonstrates massage with premature, cesarean(caesarean, cesarian), and full term infants from many countries. Step-by-step instructions are easy to learn. Companion audio tape and chart. Side two of the audio tape has authentic intrauterine sounds and special music, tested in hospital nurseries. Cradle Care Institute, 1763 Spruce Street, Berkeley, CA 94709. Tel: 510-704-1966. ($45.)

Birth and Parenting for the 21st Century (1994). 80 mins. Josephine Viscito and Vernon Van Winkle, producers,
show how all baby mammals need to be with their mothers. Parents talk about their experiences with active birth, circumcision, breastfeeding, and co-sleeping emphasizing the primal needs of babies, regardless of the limitations imposed by particular cultures. Order from The Compleat Mother magazine at 701-852-2822. ($30.)

Unsung Lullabies: Coping with Miscarriage (1995). 48 mins.
For the one in five couples who are faced with miscarriage, this award-winning film acknowledges the intense feelings (often overlooked and misunderstood) that accompanies loss. Four couples share candidly and point the way to healing. InJoy Videos, Boulder. $125.95. Tel: 1-800-3 26-2082 or learn more at www.injoyvideos.com

Treating Birth Trauma During Infancy (1995). Produced by William Emerson, Ph.D
Three Training Videos: Forceps Trauma (65 mins.), Cord Trauma (79 mins.) and Cesarean Trauma, (Part 1, 88 mins.), and (Part 2, 55 mins.). These videos show the treatment of traumatized infants and the results of therapy for these common problems.  Available from Emerson Training Seminars: 707-763-7024. ($69. each)

Whose Body, Whose Rights? (1995). 56 mins. Produced by Lawrence Dillon.
Examines the historical, sociological, legal, ethical, and personal impact of circumcising male newborns. Designed for general audiences, secondary schools and Universities, medical and legal students, childbirth educators, public broadcasting and cable television.  Order from NOHARMM@NOHARMM.org ($24.95)

After Loss: Journey of the Next Pregnancy (1995). 32 min. Produced by Joann O'Leary and Clare Thorwick
Touching interviews with families illustrate the five emotional tasks of pregnancy after loss at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis. Allina Media Services. ($79.95)

Spiritual Midwifery (1995). 30 mins. By Ina May Gaskin. 
This documentary is an inspirational 20-year retros pective on home birth at The Farm in Summertown, TN including interviews with the midwives, birth stories, and rare footage of births -- compelling testimony to birth as a holy miracle bonding mother, father and child.  To order: T/F 615-964-3798. ($50.)

Amazing Babies: Moving in the First Year (1996). 47 minutes. Documented and narrated by Movement Educator Beverly Stokes,
This video shows both pre-locomotion and locomotion movements to enhance the viewer's observation skills of the baby's natural movement development, preverbal communication, and unique play interactions. Order from Move Alive Media, toll free: 866-300-2229. Further information at: www.amazingbabies.com

New Beginnings: How To Enjoy Your Pregnancy (1997). 23 mins. Robin Bossert and Gail Greenbaum, Producers.
Featuring John Gray and Elizabeth Bing, this video explores gender differences in how men and women respond to pregnancy a nd how they can achieve emotional harmony.  Orders: 212-627-5621. ($39.95)

Special Women: How a Labor Assistant Makes a Birth Safer, More Satisfying, and Less Expensive. 27 mins. By Paulina Perez.
Perinatal psychology in action, this video features one of the most promising trends for changing the psychological quality of birth today. Cutting Edge Press, Katy, Texas: 281-497-8894 ($59.95).

Gentle Transitions: A Newborn Baby's Point of View on Adoption ( 1997).
10 mins. produced by Michael Trout
This training video offers suggestions on what grown-ups should think about and do to make adoption work best for a baby. The script is presented as if written by an infant. Useful for birthparents, adopting parents, and adoption professionals as a catalyst for discussion. Order from The Infant-Parent Institute Champaign, IL: Tel 217-352-4060. ($70.) mtrout@infant-parent.com

Make Way for Baby! (1997). 55 mins. Written by Anna Arenas and produced by Carlos Arenas in collaboration with Dr. Beatriz Manrique,
This video introduces the world-famous prenatal stimulation program organized in Venezuela. In English or Spanish. Pompano Beach, FL: Amphion Communications. Email: arenas@4image.net

The Timeless Way: A History of Birth From Ancient to Modern Times. (1998). 20 mins. By Janet Ashford
Historic and cross-cultural perspectives on childbirth utilize art through the ages, vintage film, and video clips of contemporary births to inspire discussion. Injoy Productions, Boulder, CO: 800-326-2082 ($79.95). www.injoyvideos.com

Giving Birth: Challenges and Choices (1998). 35 mins. By Suzanne Arms.
Featuring a home birth and interviews with birth practioners, including Christiane Northrup, MD, this video offers a model for normal natural childbirth and addresses the misconceptions and fears that fuel our 21% cesarean rate and 85% epidural/drug rate. Injoy Productions, Boulder, CO: 800-326-2082 ($59.95). www.injoyvideos.com

Love and Music for your Unborn Baby (Amor y Music a para tu Bebe por Nacer) (1998). By Renee Guindi. Available in Spanish or English.
For expectant parents, about the secrets of the prenatal life. Contains a session of prenatal activities through sound, so the future mother can enrich the development of her unborn baby through her caresses, her voice, and classical music. Order by fax 52-5-227-4491 or email: guindir@data.net.mx

The Amazing Talents of the Newborn (1998) Phyllis and Marshall Klaus. Produced by the Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute.
This 30-minute video will help parents more quickly discover the signals and talents of their newborn infant. It will encourage perinatal caregivers to review the clinical practices around labor, birth and the first hours of life, and make them more appropriate to our new understanding of the physiology and inherent behavior of the mother and infant. Order from the Institute at 1-877-JNJ-LINK.

Facing Circumcision: Eight Physicians Tell Their Stories (1998). 20 mins.
This video documents the processes physicians experience while grappling with their consciences as they examine the ethical and human rights issues of circumcision. Order from Nurses for the Rights of the Child, 369 Montezuma #354, Santa Fe, NM 87505, email: wholebaby@nets.com $20 plus $5 postage and handling.

Prince for a Day (1998). 6 mins by Royal Phillips
Documentary film of the Sumbawa Muslim Ritual of child circumcision filmed in Indonesia. The short film, intended for medical caregivers, educators and therapists, dramatizes circumcision as a human rights issue. Royal Productions. VHS and PAL formats. $30. Inquire via email: royal@completebirth.com

Circumcision? Intact Facts (1998). 18 mins. Produced by Lawrence Dillon.
Especially designed for childbirth education and parenting classes, this short but fascinating video (derived from the hour-long program, Whose Body Whose Rights?) espouses the views of those who feel circumcision is genital mutilation and a choice best left to the individual boy when he's grown. Shows  actual circumcision surgery. Order from InJoy Videos 800-326-2082, email InJoyVideo@aol.com

Birth Games: Birth Therapy with a Seven-Year-Old Boy (1999). 30 minutes. By Lali Mitchell and Anne Hanley,
produced by Sky Mountain Institute, 2842 Country Club Drive, Escondido, CA 92029. Email: skymountain@juno.com $15

A Chance to Grow (2000). 52 minutes.
This video follows three families as they navigate their unpredictable course through the alien world of the NICU. The program explores the complex ethical issues surrounding modern neonatal care including multiple births, and the boundaries of survival outside the womb. $195. Fanlight Productions, by Claire Marie Panke. Order from: www.fanlight.com/catalog/films/317_actg.htm

Born in the USA (2000). 56 minutes.
A documentary about childbirth in America, strongly endorsed by Marsden Wagner and Sheila Kitzinger and funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Through the eyes of three caregivers, an obstetrician in a teaching hospital, a licensed midwife doing home births, and a certified nurse midwife who works in a free-standing birth center, present a critical but even-handed look at American birth. $195. From Fanlight Productions: 1-800-937-4113.

Birth Into Being: The Russian Waterbirth Experience (2000). 28 mins. Produced by Barbara Harper,
This film features the work of spiritual midwife Tatyana Sargunas showing five water births, two in the ocean and three at home. Music by Paul Winter and a St. Petersburg Choral group accompanies the beautiful footage. Available from the Global Maternal/Child Health Association in Wilsonville, OR at 1-800-641-2229 for $39.95 or learn more from their website at www.waterbirth.org

The Biology of Belief (2000) 2 hrs. 42 minutes. By Dr. Bruce Lipton
introduces the biology that reveals the mechanisms of the body/mind connection and explains why healing therapies actually work. For those interested in the future of health care. Available from Spirit 2000, Inc., P.O. Box 1126 Memphis, TN 38174. Tel: 1-800-284-8045. ($39.95)

Biology of Perception: The Psychology of Change (2001). 2 hrs 40 minutes.
Cell biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton and Rob Williams, M.A. make a compelling case for changing our traditional views of biology and psychology, exposing the prevailing myths of each discipline. They reveal the inseparable nature of the mind/body connection and offer a practical way to use these revolutionary ideas. Available from Spirit 2000, Inc., Box 1126 Memphis, TN 38174. Tel: 1-800-284-8045. ($39.95)

Breaking Peaces: Babies Have Their Say About Domestic Violence (2001). Color, 17 minutes. Produced by Michael Trout,
This video attempts to represent what prenates, infants and toddlers would say if they had a voice about the experience of domestic violence. Babies are learning all the time and have little choice but to respond in some way. Contains suggestions at the end about action steps for grownups. Orders: www.infant-parent.com/videos.htm

The Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative (2001). 15 minutes. Script by Robbie Davis-Floyd, narration by Henci Goer, and produced by CIMS,
this short video introduces the revolutionary initiative that is influencing the world today. Order from the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services, P. O. Box 2346, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32004. Tel: 888-282-CIMS. Website: www.motherfriendly.org

Mother-Infant Bonding & the Intelligence of the Heart (2002). 9 minutes. Joseph Chilton Pearce
describes the fields of energy and intelligence generated by the human heart and applies this new research to bonding. The harmonic resonance, or its absence, between mother and child impacts all aspects of a child's physical, mental, and emotional development. $12.50. Order on-line from: www.TTFuture.org/heart

The Origins of Love and Violence (2002).
Featuring the work of James W. Prescott. Part I. 13 minutes. Brief Introduction, overview of his work at NIH including issues related to breastfeeding, mother-infant separation and brain development, plus dramatic excerpts from the documentary film "Rock-A-Bye Baby." $12.50. Part II. A collection of four rare historical film and television presentations and the full-length documentary film "Rock-A-Bye Baby." $19.95. A CD-ROM for viewing and reading on the computer screen contains Part I and Part II above, and current and historical research documents spanning 40 years. $29.95. Available from: www.TTFuture.org/Origins

Gentle Touch   Infant Massage (2003). 47 mins. Produced by Emma Miller, author of the Gentle Touch? Parent-Child Program, and pediatrician Andrea Gravatt. 
Features 3 routines from the Gentle Touch? Touch Continuum using mothers and fathers as role models.  Teaches infant massage as a sensitive means of two-way communication and bonding suited to the special needs of a variety of infants.  Tel: 828-255-5648. ($10.75)

What Babies Want: An Exploration of the Consciousness of Infants (2004). DVD, 58 minutes. Debby Takikawa, Producer. 
This timely video is about the profoundly important and sacred opportunity we have in bringing children into the world. Filled with captivating stories and infused with Noah Wiley's warmth as narrator, the film demonstrates how life patterns are established at birth and before. It challenges our beliefs about what infants are thinking and feeling and includes ground-breaking information on early development while introducing the real experts: babies and their families. Other experts include Joseph Chilton Pearce, Sobonfu Some, David Chamberlain, Mary Jackson, Jay Gordon, Barbara Findeisen, Ray Castellino, Wendy Ann McCarty, and Marti Glenn. Order from www.whatbabieswant.com

Birth As We Know It: A Documentary on Conscious Childbirth  (2006). DVD, 75 minutes. Elena Vladimirova Tonetti, Director, Producer, and Narrator. Elena, now living in California, was a co-founder of the Conscious Birth Movement in Russia in 1982.
Holding nothing back,she illuminates what it really takes to give birth consciously and gracefully. The film features 11 natural births (including home birth, water birth, hospital birth, birth of twins, breech deliveries, and cesareans) and how the couples prepared for this, especially by clearing their own birth traumas and resolving other issues likely to sabotage birth and parenting. The DVD also contains a bonus section of informative commentary on topics rarely discussed, such as the sexuality of childbirth, the cruelty of circumcision, and the nature of limbic imprinting. The unforgettable images in this documentary will make you wonder why the ultimate human birth is so rare in the world today. See trailer and order from www.birthintobeing.com

Orgasmic Birth (2008). 85 minutes. Debra Pascali-Bonaro, producer/director.
This intimate new documentary film challenges cultural myths by revealing the emotional, spiritual, and physical heights attainable through birth. Viewers witness the passion of birth as an integral part of women's sexuality (and a neglected human right). Featuring eleven couples, the film intersperses expert commentary by Ina May Gaskin, Maureen Corry, Sarah Buckley, and Marsden Wagner with stunning moments of women in the ecstatic release of childbirth. The women in Orgasmic Birth labor undisturbed, free to move their bodies to the internal rhythm of labor. With their partners at their side, they laugh, kiss, and moan through their contractions. Joyous, sensuous, and revolutionary! See trailer and order from www.organismicbirth.com