Given our recent discussions
about this brilliant dvd, I thought it might interest people to see
this.
Best,
J
Dear Friends,
Mindy Goorchenko and her family will be appearing in an episode of "Amazing
Babies" this Tues., Aug. 2nd at 8pm and 11pm Eastern Daylight Time on the
Discovery Health Channel (see web site for additional dates and times - http://health.discovery.com/schedule/episode.jsp?episode=2&cpi=111205&gid=0 ).
As some of you know, Mindy is the woman who delivered her own twins
unassisted while her husband tended to their two-year-old, and calmly
captured the event on video. The result (other than two beautiful
babies!) was the inspiring DVD "Psalm and Zoya: The Unassisted Homebirth of Our
Twins" - http://unassistedbirth.com/bookshop/videos/bv2_psalm_zoya.html
Mindy said the production crew was very nice. However, be prepared
for the usual dramatics those of us who have watched these shows have come to
expect. The description of the episode on Discovery's web site
reads as follows:
"A plan for homebirth with a midwife goes terribly wrong when the pregnant
mom has to deliver her twins on her own; and one of the babies is a breech
birth."
While it's true that Mindy had planned to have midwives at the birth,
anyone who has seen the DVD knows that she was not the least bit worried when
they didn't make it in time. In fact, she was fully prepared to give birth
alone and had planned for an unassisted birth throughout much of her
pregnancy. As she wrote in her birth story:
"Since we had conceived our babies naturally, we had no reason to think we
couldn't give birth to them naturally as well. We started looking for a
midwife. This was easier said than done.
We interviewed several yet none quite meshed with how we wanted this experience
to be. Rather than trusting in the process, most of the midwives had fear
about the birth of the second twin and I did not feel comfortable having that
attitude around me during birth. We decided to simply go it alone. I
had always wanted an unassisted home birth...I just didn't think it would be
with twins! My husband trusted me to make that decision and felt
comfortable being the only 'attendant' at the birth. I knew in my heart,
soul, and bones that these babies needed to be born at home into the safest
environment possible and that the birth would go well." Once again, I am somewhat disappointed (but not
surprised) that the production company chose to put a dangerous
spin on the birth - at least on their web site. Let's hope Mindy's
optimism, enthusiasm and confidence comes through in the actual
episode.
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