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as our coffee and his friends can drink. this movie theater in kenya as dada the refugee camp. his life story may have grown to a halt. twenty seven years ago but there's no holding back his dreams. thank you for. cinema stars may twenty seventh. catarina pereira is a freelance midwife in berlin for seventeen years she helped women give birth but she's no longer willing to put up with the working conditions hospitals are closing their delivery rooms and midwives are quitting those who remain are overworked. as midwives we no longer want to work in delivery rooms and can't afford to five women

at once because we come to show the well being of mother and child. could be a litmus test not the kids as bad. as it is. they say. oh. this prenatal class in berlin is for parents expecting their second child. here catalina pereira imitates contractions. the five b. in ok three contractions. the last for the

following i was eight for the women. brings back memories. kind of the other not my hair and i think you could hear that the contractions are very different they always are now one contraction is the same as another i interview. i had a stock of the midwife knows that such classes are more important than ever in germany because many children come into the world in difficult conditions in many places there's a shortage of midwives. yet it's freelance midwives like katarina who care for women and their babies before and after childbirth. and midwives employed in hospitals work in a high stress environment. that's why catarina has changed her courses in recent years. not only does she help expectant parents prepare for the birth of their child both physically and mentally but also i tell them about was

a situation in the hospital in the car that one midwife must often care for three or four women at once and i'm trying to strengthen the women give them a good sense of physical awareness forthrightness so they'll get through the birth ok. pushkin can last but not so much about how the board muffled their example and how if we want to create a contractions optimizes the child's position then i tell a woman often i like this only. catarina help to deliver children for seventeen years. but recently she decided to only do create an antenatal care and to give classes just like. it wasn't an easy decision to make. i think she knows how hard it is for parents to find a midwife. and i guess the only rejections were always the same we have no capacity no place is free this summer and we started looking quite early. to be

ambushed we looked for two three months when my first child was born eight years ago it wasn't such a problem but now it really is. to remove it. and the most telling is what is the pain to one last time you were so active let's see if you react to my hands that way again. the money can still hit on the side. samantha mckenna is expecting her third child and katherina is caring for her during her pregnancy when. she'll also be present at the birth but only to provide emotional support as a friend but how about when i think adding i'd only return to assisting with deliveries if i had a really good idea of how i could work in a team outside the hospital and not be on constant cool. but i took this. babies come into the world at any time of the day or night so these midwives are on

call twenty four seven but having to be available all the time retarget on her family life i want to form a good trait just as it should be. freelance midwives pay high liability insurance premiums that's also another thing preventing cutlery now from returning to delivering babies i let in what he would have biggest hurdle i would face if i went back to delivering babies next year it would be where would i get the six or seven thousand euros to pay for liability insurance money ha ha because i need that before i could return and i think that's also the biggest problem facing the young midwives have just finished training. yourself that a. freelance midwife who assisted births face skyrocketing costs for liability insurance. they can now expect to pay over eight thousand euros a year and caterina says even if they are partly reimbursed midwives aren't paid enough for their work so. i get one more ball. i think it makes me really angry

because we simply aren't paying for the responsibility that we have that's what i think is so awful that it's also a matter of appreciation holiday that's had song samantha thinks her midwife is irreplaceable. you just close it to you. how should i put it that you closer to her than to your gynecologist you can talk to her about things you wouldn't with a gynecologist because she doesn't have the time. catarina says that midwives take the time even if they're not always paid for it. that's a situation katherine is no longer willing to accept so she's organized to protest but i don't i'm one of the many midwives who aren't willing to accept the status quo any more we founded a group called midwife rebels was one thing the midwife rebels criticised hospitals

often closed the delivery room to a lack of personnel and turn away women in labor. a sign of you know i'm not frustrating enough then when a woman in labor has finally found a hospital to take her may have to live with the fact that her midwife is looking after three or four other women at the same time so she won't receive adequate care that can lead to lots of medical interventions a high rate of says they are in sections and women who want traumatised by the birth when no longer willing to accept that is what is needed and i wish you lots of children lots of strength and don't put up with anything. i'd like to protest it's alexanderplatz two or three big squares in the length of the soundtrack good music and just read off the things the lifestream on facebook

for. the things are postcards from the midwife rebels latest protest campaign people across germany send postcards to germany's health minister complaining about the lack of midwives close to delivery rooms and overworked birth attendants might soon see you know it's time. for her yet arena and her freelance colleagues are also suffering from the crisis in the hospitals. there is this. if women don't receive good care and hospitals free zones midwives almost always have to make up for this at home. this is not that didn't used to be the case i'm not bashing the hospitals the midwives they do what they can make it. to the secret but often it's just not enough just so this is a sin considering how important this is awfully not talking about removing it was we talking about the beth of a child lots of her and this is. the midwife rebels demands are

clear they want a political solution to fix germany's catastrophic birthing system. called me me we don't need high tech we need well rested midwives we like that working and enough of them in the places babies are born. on the basis of the. only person in the cubicle someone in the. samantha mccann office is about to give birth and she's lucky to have a well rested midwife at her side oh oh oh oh oh katherina can't do much more than help her get through the contractions. one of the hospital midwives bears all of the medical responsibility. here. a short while later and marley is born both mother and child are well.

eight days later catarina visit samantha mccown off and her baby each day. she checks on them both and answers any questions the new mother might have zero. zero zero zero. zero zero two thousand seven hundred twenty came in. today katherina has brought an apprentice along so you're oh sod off ski wants to become a midwife. this she wants to get an impression of what the jobs like and here how and marley's birth went. for the view that has come to my absolute he wanted kids arenas he. he that i knew someone i trusted was that that we could do it that i didn't need to be afraid because i'd had problems with the birth of my first child and i had no reason to be afraid and she was there to really help me relax clinton was one of the. to finance fun. of you know and marley's birth also made it clear to cut to reno what she's been missing. him for

you know what my want to do best again because i love the births of misrata saw i think it was a real gift for me to be present at one again after one and half years it was like it just rounded everything off. but first she has to find out how to better reconcile her own family life with her chosen profession. until then should be dedicating much of her time to the fight for better obstetrical care in germany. as most of the trick is that we have must ensure that women in hospitals get one to one care they have a right to a home i think midwives also have a right to work solely on a one to one basis and if we midwives join forces with the colleagues in the hospitals who do incredible work and the freelance midwives and i think we can do it. they've never had a better standing in society than we do now and now is the right time to say stop

this can't go on we want this these are our demands and we simply won't work under any other conditions and i think that's possible because. all of that doesn't frighten so you're a side of ski she sees it as a challenge. this is so difficult right now and they are so many problems you have to consciously choose to do it. we won't get far if we always take another path when a problem arises some really looking forward to being active in taking. some point brings tears to my eyes come here say or yes we know people like clover. say or set off his desire to become a midwife gives caterina perera hope that her fight for better of step trickle care in germany will succeed. where. he will.

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