Laura and Jason Thielke chose a midwife, and a quiet setting outside a hospital, for the birth of their second child.
Midwives are increasingly accepted, hired by hospitals, and they handle normal births for about one-third of the cost of the average Colorado birth. The Thielkes’ story is moving, fascinating and enlightening — especially if you’ve never seen a baby being born.
[...] But if that’s not an option, and you have a healthy pregnancy, you can consider going through a certified midwife program, which can lower the total bill from about $11,000 to $4,000. Here’s a video showing how one Colorado woman gave birth out of the hospital with a midwife. [...]
Sonya, Sarah and especially Laura – many thanks! Watching it made me jealous Tracy and I didn’t have a birth center available for our births.
All the best, Joel
I was a Mountain Midwifery patient and loved my experience right up to the last minuet when I ended up in the hospital with a C-section!
[...] November 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment Featuring Mountain Midwifery Center, watch here [...]
[...] time, it just reminded me so much of our own experience. If you care to take the 9 min. to watch it, you’ll see Tracy who was present for Hazel’s birth, and the very same room and pool [...]
I have been trying to view your Alternative Childbirth video for over 40 minutes- it is a 9 min film!! I am only 5 min in! I do not know why this video will not stream- it would be helpful if this problem can be fixed so that many others are able to view it.
As this is a new site, we may have some problems on certain browsers. We’ll contact you to figure out the problem. Thanks.
I manage the Mountain Midwifery Mamas, a postpartum mom’s group from the birth center. We have a social network on Ning.com and I want to post and share it. Is there a way to do that? I tried just posting the link and it didn’t work. Let me know!
Oh, and I mean I want to post this video on Ning.com, don’t know if that was clear…
Sorry for all the posts! All I’d need is an embed location or a specific link to where the video is
This is what it’s supposed to be like! No nurse “cheerleaders” yelling and shouting for the mother to “PUSH”, a mother who gets to follow her own instincts and retreat into herself while traveling down this path. My first birth experience was at a hospital “birth center” which turned into any other hospital-driven event. I was required to switch back and forth between being in myself and focused on the labor process to having to make decisions and fight for no C-section after 48 hours of labor. Thankfully, my husband supported me and our little blessing heard my coaxing to come out – 30 minutes before the point of no return. My “birth plan” was useless, I received an episiotomy (sp) even though I didn’t want it, wasn’t allowed to touch my baby when she was born because my “hands were dirty” and had to wait almost an hour before I could nurse. All this for a perfect pregnancy and labor! I am SOOOO thankful that there is an actual birth center whose beliefs are that birth is a miraculous event to be “attended” and not “intervened” upon! I’m in my 12th week of our second pregnancy and am looking forward to including MMC in our journey!
What a beautiful, peaceful birth. It brought tears to my eyes. I had a very difficult first labor during which our planned homebirth became a hospital birth. I delivered vaginally after 30 hours. I pray my next birth will be as peaceful as this one…and at home. Congratulations!
Thank you for sharing this beautiful, poetic, life-affirming film with us. The Mountain Midwifery Center is doing blessed work.