braman tied the game with the forty year old claudio pitts are getting his side second goal and in the match to all making dortmund in disaster mode. you're watching datable in his live from berlin up next reporter which takes a look at the midwife crisis in germany i'll be back with more news headlines at the top of the hour i'm rebecca ridges in the end thanks for joining me. with him how to be going to do goes on because with the highest high you know if i

had known that the boat would be found i never would have gone on the trip to cuba i would not have put myself and my parents in about danger to the lot of sixteen with the what a beautifully it would. love one son to the hospital on the body and that is the one i have serious problems on a personal level and i was unable to live there wasn't going to. want to know their story for my groups turf identifiable information for margaret's . connecticut. 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 camp a four to five women at once because we come to show the well being of mother and child back to the business. when this has not been he exists. and that. they can see. this prenatal class in berlin is for parents expecting their second child. here catalina pereira imitates contractions.

the five me in ok three contractions. the last for the fall and how was it for the women you know brings back memories. kind of the i love 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 did 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 to give them a good sense of physical awareness lots of whiteness so they'll get through the birth ok. pushkin can last bus not so much about how the board muffled and their example is a very good and how if we want to create an contractions optimizes the child's position then i tell a woman often i like this woman. catarina help to deliver children for seventeen years. but recently she decided to only do pre and ante natal care and to give classes just like. it wasn't an easy decision to make. she knows how hard it is for parents to find a midwife. and i guess. they would take sions were always the same we have no

capacity no place is free this summer and we started looking quite early. to be ambushed and we looked for two or three months when my first child was born eight years ago it wasn't such a problem but now it really is. but the removal of. rock and the most. painful one last time he was so active let's see if you react to my hands that way again. let them out i can still hit on the side. samantha mckenna is expecting her third child and katherina is caring for her during her pregnancy. she'll also be present at the birth but only to provide emotional support as a friend but i think asking why don't we 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 wonderful good trait just as it should be. freelance midwives pay high liability insurance premiums that's also another thing preventing caterina from returning to delivering babies eleven would be forced on them the best hurdle i would face if i went back to delivering babies next year 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 to. freelance midwives who assisted births face skyrocketing costs for liability insurance. they can now expect to pay over eight thousand euros a year and catarina says even if they are partly reimbursed midwives aren't paid

enough for their work. so. how does one noble. 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 hobbit a batch that 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 of. catarina says that midwives take the time even if they're not always paid for it. that's a situation katrina 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 one thing the midwife rebels criticised hospitals

often closed the delivery rooms do to a lack of personnel and turn away women in labor. that's only the simplicity and you know i'm not so frustrating enough then when a woman in labor has finally found a hospital to take me 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 sorry and sanctions and women who want traumatised by the birth well that's 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. and i'd like to protest it to alexanderplatz two or three big squares in the land of the sound good music and just read off the things with

a life stream on facebook for. the things are postcards from the midwife rebels latest protest campaign ads people across germany send postcards to germany's health minister complaining about the lack of midwives clothes delivery rooms and overworked birth attendants my solution to this time. for her to reno and her freelance colleagues are also suffering from the crisis in the hospitals. it's just that. if women don't receive good care in hospitals free zones midwives almost always have to make up for this at home. and that's it's not that didn't used to be the case i'm not bashing the hospitals the midwives they do what they can he come to nothing but often it's just not enough just so this is a sin considering how important this is we're not talking about removing it was we

talking about the birth of a child outside her and this is. the midwife rebels demands are clear they want a political solution to fix germany's catastrophic birthing system. called maintaining we don't need high tech we need well rested midwives we like there was enough of them in the places babies are born. want and this is the. only person in the field you call 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 mcconnell and her baby each day. she checks on them both and answers any questions the new mother might have. the so she has a seven hundred twenty clearance. today catarina has brought an apprentice along cyrus sadaf ski wants to become a midwife. that she wants to get an impression of what the jobs like and here how and marley's birth went. for the visit is cut to my absolute he wanted kids arena's to be that i knew someone i trusted was that that we could do it that i didn't need to be afraid because i've had problems with the best of my first child and i had no reason to be afraid and she was there to really help me relax to clinton. to finish one. of you know and

marley's birth also made it clear to cut to rena what she's been missing. you know what my want to do beth's again because i love. to misrata saw i think it was a real gift for me to be present at one again after one and. 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 she'll be dedicating much of her time to the fight for better obstetrical care in germany . as most of the trick is that we are 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 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 better

this never 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 cyrus that off ski she sees it as a challenge. because it's 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. important brings tears to my eyes come here say or yes we need people like you are. so your set of skills desire to become a midwife gives catarina perera hope that her fight for better of step trickle care in germany will succeed. where you can start.

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