“Doulas” and “Heads Up!” films, with Doula Meet and Greet pre-show
“Doulas” and “Heads Up!” double feature will be shown as part of the CHOICE! A Birth and Baby Film Festival on Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 19:00 at St. Paul’s university (223 Main Street). Join us at 18:00 for Doula Meet and Greet to learn more about doulas, ask them questions, and for your chance to WIN CASH that goes towards a doula to support you during labour, birth and beyond. There is a community discussion panel after the film.
Tickets can be purchased at: http://informedchoice.ca/film-festival/doulas-and-heads-up.
Doulas
This documentary explores the role of birth doulas both inside and outside of the birth room. Explaining the logistics and the intricacies of doula care, it educates expectant parents while celebrating the process of supported birth. It shows a wide variety of labors and births: in the water, in bed, in the operating room, without pain medication, with epidurals and by cesarean.
Heads Up
A breech baby is born nearly every four minutes in the United States. Until the year 2000, a woman could opt to birth her breech baby vaginally or via surgery. Then, in 2001, a study came out that took away one of those options. The study was later found to be faulty, but the damage was already done–vaginal breech birth was almost completely eliminated from medical school training and from delivery rooms.
Heads Up features several women confronted with the disappearance of this option for their breech babies. Among others, actress Morena Baccarin and holistic living personality Kimberly Van Der Beek struggle to find providers who will attend them in a vaginal breech birth–all under the pressure of their imminent due dates. Through their personal accounts and the perspectives of medical professionals, Heads Up explores this widely misunderstood subject and the need to restore this lost art and lost option.
The Choice! Film Festival supports all mothers in their choices.
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