controversial the well being of mother and child. like this has not yet exist. in the. country so. oh oh oh this prenatal class in berlin is for parents expecting their second child. here catalina pereira imitates contractions. ok. but i mean ok three contractions.

the last for the fall and how was it for the women you know reading about brings back memories. called to get out of my hair and i think you could hear that the contractions are very different they always are no one contraction is the same as another. 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 a car that one midwife must often camp 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 wideness so they'll get through the birth ok. pushkin can last the most about how the board muffled their example. if we want to create a 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 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. a rejection is what 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 do nothing and hope. in a motel is what he painted one last time he was so active let's see if you react to my hands that way again. the 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 my forgetting 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 wonderful 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 will be flushed with the best hurdle i would face if i went back to delivering babies next year would be when i get the six or seven thousand one already has to pay for liability insurance he must ha ha ha because i need that before i could return and i think that's also the biggest problem facing the young midwives who've 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 katherina says even if they are partly reimbursed midwives aren't paid enough for their work. that's when mobile. 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. 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 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 room stoop to a lack of personnel and turn away women in labor. the sign is

something i'm that's frustrating enough then when a woman in labor has finally found a hospital to take the 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 whenever a 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's alexanderplatz two or three big squares in the length of the sound good music and just read off the things with a life stream on facebook 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 my solution is to not start. yet arena and her freelance colleagues are also suffering from the crisis in the hospitals. here it's just that. if women don't receive good care in hospitals for 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 you come to nothing for them 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 says 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 that works and enough of them in the places babies are born that's it one. moment it's in the can you call someone in. samantha mccann off 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. 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 zero zero zero zero zero. zero zero zero. zero zero two thousand seven hundred twenty clintons. 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 job's like and here how and marley's birth went. into this country my absolute he wanted kids to read. 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 after all i had no reason to be afraid and she was there to really help me relax to clinton which one. to finish one. of you know and marley's birth also made it clear to cut to reno what she's been missing in the

. photo but now i want to do beth's again because i love the misrata saw and i think the he was a real gift for me to be present at one again after one and a 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. it wasn't until then she'll be dedicating much of her time to the fight for better of structural care in germany. as most of the triggers 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 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 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. 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 saying. yes we know people like you are. so your 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. because. he would. it's been even though he does.

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