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B.I.R.T.H. is a non-profit organization of parents, midwives, physicians, childbirth educators, doulas, professional labor support and lactation consultants .
We are working to create the emergence of a Houston community which promotes healthy, natural and safe birth for mothers and babies by providing access to information and resources in person, in print and on-line. We encourage high standards and provide a support network for Houston's birth community.
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Monthly BIRTH Movie Night
Come see informative, entertaining, educational, enlightening movies!
There will be a question and answer panel with local doulas and midwives at each showing. Bring your friends and family!
FEBRUARY 25, 6:00 p.m. Orgasmic Birth
Debra-Pascali-Bonaro is producer and director of Orgasmic Birth, a film documenting the sensual and life changing aspects of undisturbed childbirth. Host Trina Evans, Doula. Katy Birth Center, 1002 Avenue A, Katy, Texas. Contact Trina for more information and to RSVP at 832-421-6037 or
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MARCH 23, 6:30 p.m. Doula! The Ultimate Birth Companion
The Houston Doula Cooperative and Nicole Deelah, Doula, will host the showing of Doula! The Ultimate Birth Companion a documentary film about birth and postpartum doulas. ACT (Alliance for Cooperative Transformation), 2805 Wichita Street, Houston, 77004. Contact Cole for more information and to RSVP at
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APRIL 26, 7:00 p.m. The Business of Being Born
Host Debbie Hull, Doula, will show the movie The Business of Being Born by Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein. Cy-Fair Library , 191 Barker-Cypress Road, Cypress, 77433, Room 131. Contact Debbie to RSVP and for more info. at 281-599-1381 or
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MAY 26, 10:00 a.m. More Business of Being Born
Host Sally Head, Doula/Monitrice will show the movie More Business
of Being Born by Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein. Nativiti Women’s Health and Birth Center located at 26614 Oak Ridge Drive, The Woodlands, (Spring), 77380. Please call 281-298-2333 for more info. and to RSVP.
JUNE 15, 7:00 p.m. WaterBabies: The Aquanatal Experience in Ostend
Host Jackie Griggs, CNM, RN, IBCLC will show the movie WaterBabies: The Aquanatal Experience in Ostend. Bay Area Birth Center 3210 Strawberry Rd, Pasadena, 77504. Please call 713-472-5525 for more information and to RSVP. |
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BIRTH Board of Resolutions
There are many opportunities during pregnancy, birth, and post-partum recovery period for disagreements or disappointments to arise with your care provider. BIRTH now has a resource that can help resolve these complaints. By making use of this resource, you can help improve the care you and others will receive from health care and birth support providers.
The resource is a committee that BIRTH (Bringing Information and Resources To Houston) (see houbirth.org) has formed to hear grievances against Houston area providers of obstetrical and midwifery birth care and provide mediation in an attempt to resolve each complaint to the satisfaction of all involved parties. Use of the committee is voluntary and the committee is comprised of a variety of community members including an obstetrician, attorney, parent, consumers, doula, and midwife whose goals are to find resolutions to grievances in our community.
To reach the BIRTH grievance committee, please email
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Message from founder of B.I.R.T.H.:
"I believe that women are empowered through the pain and joy of childbirth. Birth is a mirror inside a woman, allowing her to see her vastness and her limits as no other experience can.
Birth is a spiritual event for me which I experience as a miracle every time. Over and over, I am involved in situations which seem to be constantly reminded that we are in charge of nothing and that everything happens truly in divine order. The respect in which we treat newborns comes in part from our humility in the face of this divine order and in our service to the great unknowable rhythms of life. This gift is a healthy baby who arrives through unity and self-discovery into a loving world, a baby about whom deliberate, empowering choices have been made from the beginning.
Surely this first knowledge of the world will influence a child's life. To have felt a powerful flow of love, never abating, for those critical first hours and days must give one's character an underpinning of confidence and self-worth. Does not society also benefit? I believe that as more people are born with such harmony and deep sense of value in themselves, so the chances for harmony among people and nations will improve. I believe the work I do contributes to world peace."
Pat Jones, CNM
Founder and President of B.I.R.T.H.
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Whole Mother Radio Program
Join a discussion with members from B.I.R.T.H. each Monday on KPFT's Whole Mother radio program from 6:30-7:00 a.m. It is also broadcast live on the web at KPFT. |
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Circumcision Interviews with Dr. Robert Van Howe
Listen in on these 2 informative and powerful interviews with Dr. Robert Van Howe, a strong advocate against the routine circumcision of infants.
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