Water Birth

Birth Into Being – The Russian Waterbirth Experience

2007 from Waterbirth International

28 minutes

Russian Spiritual Midwife, Tatyana Sargunas and her filmmaker husband, Alexi, recorded five totally natural, incredible waterbirths. Their original footage takes you on a breathtaking expedition to witness two families birthing in the Black Sea, and into their home to see two of their daughters being born in a handmade clear birthing pool. Scenes of children and babies swimming with dolphins will delight and amaze audiences of all ages.

Gentle Birth Choices – DVD

2006 by Barbara Harper

Six natural births!

Based on Barbara Harper’s book Gentle Birth Choices, this film presents birth as every woman would like it to be. In a birth center setting, you will see two waterbirths, a squatting birth, an older mother whose last baby was born 18 years previously, and a VBAC. You will also witness a beautiful home birth. These births are family-centered, and attended by midwives or an OB/GYN.

Water Babies – The Aquanatal Experience in Ostend

1994 by Jade Productions, Belgium

28 minutes

This video reveals the amazing work of a dedicated group of water birth practitioners, parents and aquanatal instructors in H.Surreys Hospital in Ostend, Belgium. We see what is now the world’s leading Aquatic Maternity Center, where couples spend time preparing for birth in aquatic prenatal classes, giving birth in water and returning their newborns into the aquatic environment for swim training, fun and bonding.

With 17 years of encouraging women to use warm water to ease labor and facilitate birth, Dr. Herman Ponette tells us of his experience with more than 3000 water births in Ostend, where more than 50 percent of all women give birth in water. You will see many beautiful births in water, including a breech presentation and the birth of twins.

Born In Water – A Sacred Journey

2001 – by Andaluz Waterbirth Center

A beautiful collection of seven waterbirths, including a home waterbirth, attended by midwife, Jennifer Gallardo, at the Andaluz Waterbirth Center in Guatemala and Oregon. Witness women give birth without intervention as they reclaim their power as a bearer of life and bring their children into the world with gentleness, awareness and wisdom.

Birth Day

by Sage Femme, Inc.

66 minutes

This video is very powerful in communicating the power and beauty of home waterbirth. Needless to say, this is not your typical birth video. In fact this is not your typical birth in the USA, which is all the more reason that it should be shown.