Check out the NEW DVD/Book Combination release: “Perceptions, Reflections, Connections.”
To order and/or preview DVD and Book, please please click here.
Welcome to the Gentle Birth Congress Gallery; September, 2007 in Portland Oregon.
To preview the photographs on display at the Congress, please click here and be sure to plug in the confidential discount code, found on the Order Forms distributed at the Congress. Enjoy and thank you for supporting the work.
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On a cold, billowy evening of November 15, 1987, the conception of Birth Balance occurred in a New York loft on 22nd Street between 5th and 6th Avenue. Judith Elaine Halek, Director of Birth Balance, attended a labor, as a friend, labor support doula, massage specialist and pregnancy/labor/birth/family/newborn photographer.
At one end of the loft, the mother, father, Judith and midwife ended up seated train style in an 6.5 foot wide, 4 foot deep, copper butter urn. At 11:45 PM, the baby (Maxx) and Birth Balance were born. This marked the first home waterbirth with midwife in attendance in New York City.
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Orgasmic Birth Documentary Birth Balance has 19 photographs presented in this documentary coming out in 2008. Joyous, sensuous, revolutionary: Orgasmic Birth captures stunning moments of women riding waves of pleasure in the ecstatic release of childbirth. Orgasmic Birth is a documentary that examines the intimate nature of birth and the powerful role it plays in women's lives when they are permitted to experience it. |
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Home Delivery - 2007 Birth Balance debuts 3 photographs in this film directed by Christine Tournadre. In New York, cutting edge of modern progress and technology, three women decide to give birth at home, with only a midwife by their side. Soon to be shown on the RTBF. Documentary: 58 minutes and 70 minutes, Produced by Speakeasy Docs (New York), co-produced by Eklektik Productions. |
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"I love the fact that the web has brought a lot of users showing off their own content and thoughts. Take all the great blogs out there and now YouTube. While there is certainly enough stuff I don't care to watch and too many things to see it all. I absolutely fell in love with this one!" Robin, Birth Activist. Preview Birth Balance Photography protraying the sequence of a natural labor and birth in water, edited into a short Lamaze International, Childbirth Education Commercial. To preview this video, visit here |
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Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth (Paperback) Birth Balance has 5 photographs featured in the latest book on pregnancy and birth. Copyright, 2008, pgs. 93, 195, 251, 285. |
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