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when this is not the key it's a sign. of the end of the. day so. this prenatal class in berlin is for parents expecting their second child. here catalina pereira imitates contractions. the high ok three contractions.

the last for the fall and how was it for the women you know brings back memories. quality of enough my hair and i think you could hear that the contractions are very different they always are you know one contraction is the same as another and i interviewed one very 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 him about was actually in the hospital soon in

a 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 lots of ideas so they'll get through the birth ok. pushkin can. last bus not so much for the whole of the board in my home and the example is a very good in how if we want to create an contractions optimizes the child's position opinion then i tell a woman often i like this woman. catarina help to deliver children for seventeen years. old but recently she decided to only do three and ante natal care and to give classes just like us it wasn't an easy decision to make. she knows how hard it is for parents to find a midwife. and i know. many rejections were always the same we have no capacity no place is free this summer and we started looking quite early. 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 the thought that this simply moving. in a motel is what has the pain to one last time he was so active let's see if you react to my hands that way again. the money is still here on this signed. 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 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 we tack on her family life 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 eleven would be fresh then it would have best heard and i would face if i went back to delivering babies next year it would be where would i get the six or seven thousand what already has 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. often and. freelance midwives who assisted births and face skyrocketing costs for liability insurance. they can now expect to pay over eight thousand euros a year and katherina 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 had song samantha thinks her midwife is irreplaceable. you just closer 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. caterina says that midwives take the time even if they're not always paid for it. that's a situation catherine is no longer willing to accept so she's organized a 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 on the sign time so she won't receive adequate care that can lead to looks of medical interventions a high rate of sincerity and sanctions 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 protested to alexanderplatz or two or three big squares in berlin but the soundtrack of good music can just read off the things with a life stream on facebook. 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 clothes delivery rooms and overworked birth attendants might assume that you know it's time. to renew and her freelance colleagues are also suffering from the crisis in the hospitals. it's just that. if women don't receive good. in hospitals freelance midwives almost always have to make up for this at home. and 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 city but often it's just not enough just so this is a city consider how important this is we're not talking about removing it was just we're talking about the birth of a child outside her and in this sense the midwife rebels demands are

clear they want a political solution to fix germany's catastrophic birthing system. called me we don't need high tech we need well rested midwives we like that works and enough of them in the places babies are born that's one of the. only person in the do 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 to have to remain 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. now the two thousand seven hundred twenty clearance. today katherina has brought an apprentice along cyrus sadaf 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. to visit his cousin 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 that had problems with the best of my first child and i had no reason to be afraid well kind of and she was there to really help me relax to clinton which one doublings with us t.v. next month. well 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 woman hockey is it was like it just rounded everything all of us up. 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 have must ensure that women in hospitals get one to one care they have a right to it 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 best of us 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 around to moms and we simply won't work under any other conditions and i think that's possible because. all of that doesn't frighten sierra sadaf ski she sees it as a challenge. because it's so difficult right now and there 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 plans. it's important grains tears to my eyes come here say or yes we know people like labor. say or sadowski his desire to become a midwife gives catarina pereira hope that her fight for better of step trickle care in germany will succeed. because. he would.

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