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 the well being of mother and child back to the us. could be when this has not yet exist. and that. they can say. oh. 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 hollow now was it for the women. brings back memories. color the other not my hair and i think you could hear that the contractions are very different as they always are now one contraction is the same as another i interviewed one venue irish 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 give them a good sense of physical awareness what's right now so they'll get through the birth ok. pushkin can last the most about how the board muffled and their example is and i mean if we want to trigger 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 three and ante natal care and to give

classes. it wasn't an easy decision to make. she knows how hard it is for parents to find a midwife we have and i guess. the rejections 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 three months when my first child was born eight years ago it wasn't such a problem but now it really is. to remove the. rock and the most telling. pain to 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 they 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 my forgetting 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 eleven would be forced on them what a gift 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 what already has to pay for liability insurance and what a ha because i need that before i could return and i think that's also the biggest problem facing young midwives he's just finished training. yourself 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 catarina says even if they are partly reimbursed midwives aren't paid enough for their work. 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 heart of actually samantha thinks her midwife is irreplaceable. you just close it to you and wife how should i put it that you're 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 a 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 criticized hospitals often closed the delivery room is due to a lack of personnel and turn away women in labor. that sign is something i'm not frustrating enough then when a woman in labor has finally found a hospital to take may have to live with the fact that her midwife is looking after three or four other women on the same time so she won't receive adequate care that can lead to lots of medical interventions a high rate of says arian sections and women who want traumatised by the birth when no longer willing to accept that. 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 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 mycelium to know it's time. to renew and her free lance 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. but that's just that didn't used to be the case i'm not bashing

the hospitals the midwives they do what they can come to the scene 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 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 we don't need high tech we need well rested midwives we like there was enough of them in the places babies are born. on the basis of 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 although 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 over. now the she doesn't seven hundred seventy k.m.'s. today catarina has brought an apprentice along cyrus sadaf ski wants to become a midwife. if she wants to get an impression of what the job's like and here how and marley's birth went. for the visitors come to my absolute he 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 best of my first child and i had no reason to be afraid and she was there to really help me relax. and shrunk the. form of you know and marley's birth also made it clear to cut to reno what she's been missing. you know what i 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 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 i thought was that we are must ensure that women in hospitals get

one to one care they have a right to it but i think midwifes 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 then i think we can do it best of us 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 cyrus i don't 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 why some really looking forward to being active in taking. what's important brings tears to my eyes from his ira yes we know people like labor.

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