Boulder, CO Screening of Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret at Real Baby Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 6:30PM, co-sponsored by BellyBliss
August 1-7, 2010 is World Breastfeeding Week. The brainchild of the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA), this year’s theme is “Breastfeeding: Just Ten Steps! The Baby Friendly Way.”
What are those ten steps? Twenty years ago, the Innocenti Declaration outlined a vision that every facility providing maternity services and care for newborn infants would:
1. Have a written breastfeeding policy that is routinely communicated to all health care staff.
2. Train all health care staff in skills necessary to implement this policy.
3. Inform all pregnant mothers about the benefits and management of breastfeeding.
4. Help mothers initiate breastfeeding within a half-hour of birth.
5. Show mothers how to breastfeed, and how to maintain lactation even if they should be separated from their infants.
6. Give newborn infants no food or drink other than breastmilk unless medically indicated.
7. Practice rooming-in—allow mothers and infants to remain together—24 hours a day.
8. Encourage breastfeeding on demand.
9. Give no artificial teats or pacifiers (also called dummies or soothers) to breastfeeding infants.
10. Foster the establishment of breastfeeding support groups and refer mothers to them on discharge from the hospital or clinic.
Today, 28% of all maternity facilities in the world, in more than 152 countries, have implemented these steps. UNICEF recently noted that child deaths around the world declined from 13 million in 1990 to 8.8 million in 2008 in part due to increased early and exclusive breastfeeding. However, much more remains to be done.
For ideas on how to celebrate and promote World Breastfeeding Week in your community, please visit http://worldbreastfeedingweek.org/.
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“Orgasmic Birth is without doubt the best movie on birth that I have ever seen and I have seen many. The production values are fabulous. I loved the clarity of sound and photography and the music was just right in setting the mood. The short commentaries by some of the world's experts on birth were to the point and free of jargon. I also appreciated the wide spectrum of modes of births that were covered from home births to water births to C-sections in hospital. This movie is an inspiration to families who want not only to birth a child but also to birth a family. Whether you contemplate starting a family now or in the future this movie is a must see if for no other reason than because it makes us realize that birth is a uniquely mysterious experience of sacred ecstasy as no other experience in life.”
Thomas R. Verny, MD
Co-author with John Kelly of The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, Pre-And Peri-Natal Psychology: An Introduction and Parenting Your Unborn Child