Birth Day

The new International Version is in fourteen languages: English, Farsi, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog and Vietnamese.

Special Features include interviews with Naoli's husband, parents and her midwife. It also shows delivery of the placenta, cutting the cord and intimate family scenes around the birth.

BIRTH DAY has screened in hospitals, clinics, homes, museums, classrooms, conferences and many, many film festivals. Product Description

Gentle Natural Birth Video - Excellent for older siblings

I love this film for many reasons. The beauty of the people, their garden, natural area, and home inspire a sense of warmth and calm while watching the birth of a third child unfold. There is also a lot of commentary, which adds information and perspective to the story of the birth.

Water birth, by nature, is less graphic. And combined with the calm and trusting family we see on the screen, this makes an excellent video for preparing older siblings for birth.

The one negative review saddens me and I feel it is a reflection of the fear-based lens our culture uses when looking at birth. The fact that she calmly takes her baby up (and is not driven by fear of the water, the baby's normal color at birth, etc) is what makes this such a great video. The mother in the story is a midwife. She has seen many, many babies born and knows when it is appropriate to be concerned about a baby's wellbeing. This is a beautiful, healthy, natural birth in which the family (including "big" brothers) are present, supportive, and supported. Just lovely! July 23, 2008

Not just a chick flick!

I am a middle-aged guy, and spent most of my life as a fighter pilot and a paratrooper. I have no idea why I thought this video would interest me, but was positively captivated by it.
The music and the camera shots created an atmosphere of serenity and tranquility that just grew on me. If you are contemplating a home birth, this video will give you the motivation, insight, and confidence you need to start working seriously toward it. If you are not, it will enlighten you. Birth can be a joy that brings out the best in a family. It isn't the anxiety and discomfort many of us had always taken fro granted. June 16, 2008

Beautiful, Peaceful, Gentle Waterbirth at Home

I first watched this video when it was out on VHS long ago when I had my own fears about childbirth. The whole process of birth that is shown is very gentle, natural, safe, and relaxed. As a childbirth educator, I have found that this video is very empowering for women to watch and reassures them that their bodies are 100% capable of birthing without intervention.

Birth Day shows just how perfectly a woman's body is created to give birth naturally and normally - doing what it needs to do in its own time to bring about a perfect, healthy, calm birth. Included in the DVD is not only footage of the labor and birth itself, but also interviews with those involved on the day of birth. We can see how spiritual a birth day is for all those involved, especially mom.

I highly recommend this DVD along with the most excellent "Birth As We Know It" (2006) and the DVD that comes in the msut-read book "Gentle Birth Choices" (2005) by Harper & Arms. Together every mom can find peace and unmatched joy in birth. January 27, 2008

Scary and weird

This DVD was horrifying to me. There don't seem to be many DVDs out there that actually show the birth experience and I was hoping to watch a beautiful, natural delivery that would be inspiring to myself and my husband.

Instead, I watched a woman give birth in a tub, pull her baby out of the water and hold it while it stayed blue the entire time and seemed to be choking and gagging on the water. It sounded to me like a baby struggling to breathe with lungs full of water and it seemed to me the mother was oblivious to her baby's pain. My husband also noted that she didn't seem to be paying enough attention to keeping her baby's head above the water after the birth. We were worried the baby was continually going to be swallowing water.

We never actually got to see the baby "pink up" in the birth section of the DVD - we just saw the baby later looking healthy. I was terrified for the baby's sake, even though I knew there were would be an eventual good outcome - otherwise they would not have released this DVD. I wished I could jump into the video and suction the baby's nose and mouth, so I wouldn't have to hear the horrible, scary sounds it was making. The baby, between choking sounds, seemed lethargic and almost non-responsive. If I had been watching a live birth I would have thought the baby might die. If I had ever thought of having a water birth, this video put me off completely.

Also, there seemed to be so much talking in this DVD. Much more talking about their relationship and the experience than witnessing it for ourselves. I felt the birth part was rushed and the talking went on way too long. I would prefer to see much more of the labor and techniques to cope with it, than a blue baby and an oblivious mother. I can't believe she is a practicing midwife. This just seemed too irresponsible to me. January 5, 2008

Very inspiring!

This shows completely how a woman should feel, and be allowed to feel about their birth experience. The whole family, including her parents are showing support and love, understanding for her own desires with the birth experience. This water birth was very inspiring to me as I looked forward to my own experience. December 3, 2007

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