May 11th, 2011 | 
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On Saturday, 11th of December 2010, “Birth Choices” held the projection of Suzanne Arms film: “Giving life to the future – Childbirth: challenges and choices”.
Throughout the film Suzanne Arms focuses attention on the importance of love and kindness toward the mother and baby during the birth process. She shows the beauty, wonder and transformative power of normal, natural childbirth as well as directly addressing the prevailing concerns of most mothers: Will my body work? Why should I have to feel any pain in labor? What is safe for my baby and me?
What you saw:
- How empowering birth can be for a woman
- What a healthy, full-term newborn looks like who’s mother has not had drugs or anesthesia
- What a midwife-style prenatal visit looks/feels like (with a toddler sibling present)
- What true support looks like in labor
- A midwife-attended labor and natural birth (with a middle class couple, in an modern home)
- Active birth: upright, active positions in labor, use of a birthing stool, the mother feeling her baby’s head as it emerges and helping draw her baby out and up onto her chest
- Extraordinary joy a woman feels after completing the hard work of birth without drugs or anesthesia
- Active father support in labor and during delivery
- Still photos of a water birth
After the projection followed an open discussion about the childbirth and the condition that exist in Greece. Many thanks to mikropolis and to the people who came although the cold night!
PLACE: Micropolis, Venizelou Heraklion and Vas 18, 2nd Floor, Thessaloniki
TIME: 6:00 p.m.
FREE ENTRANCE
On Saturday, 27th of November 2010, “Birth Choices” organized a meeting for action!
First of all we want to thank the volunteers who took part in the meeting, and “Micropolis” which helped us once again by giving us the place! We were a lot of people (adults and children). New volunteers, who are ready to act collectively making truth our goals. We exchange views and ideas, which makes us feel optimistic about our future. Were decided:
- To open a dialogue for natural birth in Greece with the Ministry of Health, the Greek Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the association of Midwives in Thessaloniki.
- To analyze what is happening today in hospitals on childbirth and breastfeeding (conditions for mother and baby) and how can we publicize our positions in public and private hospitals.
- To investigate and push for legislation that exists (or rather absence) in Greece for giving birth at home.
- To analyze the theme of “childbirth and economic crisis” trying to gather alternative proposals.
- To organize a film screening in December. 
Go VOLUNTEERS to get some ACTION!
PLACE: Micropolis, Venizelou Heraklion and Vas 18, 2nd Floor, Thessaloniki
TIME: 6:00 p.m.
Free entrance!
Last summer in “Epiloges” magazine, Birth Choices was presented!
A beautiful day, a trip to the dam of Thermi, parents and children, a journalist and a photographer! The ingredients for an interview and a wonderful article about “Birth Choices”.
Our goal is to inform as much as people we can that THERE ARE choices in childbirth!
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