in this world together. as can the human mind. and then we can make him feel different. that's why we've. had a rino 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. of the.

day so. this prenatal class in berlin is for parents expecting their second child. here catalina pereira imitates contractions. but i mean ok three contractions. the last pretty fall and how was it for the women you know brings back memories.

of my hero and i hope i get to hear that the contractions are very different and the same always on one contraction is the same as another 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 actually in the hospital in the car that one midwife must often can 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 but not so much about how the board my husband their example is a very good and how if we want to create an contractions optimizes the child's position opinion then i tell a woman to lie like this only. catarina help to deliver children for seventeen years. old but recently she decided to only do pre and antenatal care and to give classes. it wasn't an easy decision to make. as she knows how hard it is for parents to find a midwife we have and i know. many rejections were always the same we have no capacity no place is free the some of the boys started looking quite early. to be ambushed 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. to do nothing and hope. and the most telling is what he painted one last time he was so active let's see if you react to my hands that way again. with a man 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 we tag 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 cut to reno from returning to delivering babies a lot in what he would have got just heard and i want to thank if i went back to delivering babies next year it would be where would i get the six or seven thousand liras to pay for liability insurance you must a ha ha because i need that before i could return and i think that's also the biggest problem facing the young midwives he's just finished training. off the. freelance midwives who assisted births and faced 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. i guess when mobile. 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 of holiday that's had song samantha thinks her midwife is irreplaceable. you just close it to you. 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. caterina says that midwives take the time even if they're not always paid for it. that's a situation country 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 he founded a group called midwife rebels one thing the midwife rebels criticised hospitals often closed the delivery room is due to a lack of personnel and turn away women in labor. a sign of

something i'm that's frustrating enough then when a woman in labor has finally found a hospital to take any may have to live with the fact that her midwife is looking after three or four other women of 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 protested to alexandra plant for two or three big squares in the soundtrack 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 people across germany send postcards to germany's health

minister complaining about the lack of midwives clothes delivery rooms and overworked birth attendants might soon see you know it's time. to renew and her freelance colleagues are also suffering from the crisis in the hospitals. there is this good. news if women don't receive good. in hospitals has freed us 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 you get. to the scene for them but often it's just not enough just so this is seen we consider how important this is awfully not talking about removing it was we talking about the beth of a child outside her eyes 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 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. 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 zero 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. she wants to get an impression of what the jobs like and hear how and marley's birds. went. for the visitors come to my absolutely wanted kids arenas 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 birth of my first child and i had no reason to be afraid and she was there to really help me relax to clinton which one of the. chief knows front. 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 eyes of misrata saw and 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 all of us up. 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. because that we are 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. 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. we think about. it is it so difficult right now and they are so many problems you have to consciously choose to do it. when we won't get far if we always take another path when a problem arises so i'm really looking forward to being active in taking. some quick brings tears to my eyes from his. yes we know people like labor. say your sadowski is desire to become a midwife gives caterina perera hope that her fight for better obstetrical care in germany will succeed. where. he will. is he in the demo he doesn't with.

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