Midwifery is a health care profession in which providers offer care to childbearing women during pregnancy, labour and birth, and during the postpartum period. They also help care for the newborn and assist the mother with breastfeeding.
A practitioner of midwifery is known as a midwife, a term used in reference to both women and men, although the majority of midwives are female. In addition to providing care to women during pregnancy and birth, many midwives also provide primary care to women, well-woman care related to reproductive health, annual gynecological exams, family planning, and menopausal care.
In the term midwife, the morpheme -wife is pronounced as expected ( /waɪf/), but midwifery is normally pronounced /mɪdˈwɪfᵊri/ (mid-WIF-(ə)ree).
Midwives are specialists in low-risk pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum, although they are trained to recognize and deal with deviations from the norm as well as certain high risk situations. Obstetricians, in contrast, are specialists in illness related to childbearing and in surgery. The two professions can be complementary, but may be at odds in some countries, where obstetricians are taught to "actively manage" labor, while midwives are taught not to intervene unless necessary. Most midwives are familiar with the process of physiological management and the use of gravity in aiding the process of labor.
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Underclassmen is a coming of age film of 2 poor boys in California''s Central Valley: one, shot in black and white, takes place in a small town in the 60s. The second is in color and its main character lives in the barrio of Central Fresno. It brackets five years around 9/11. The two stories are told together and parallel each other in many ways: both boys have limited assets, only have a single parent and they try hard to make a plan that will give each of them the promise of a better life.The stories are both complete within themselves and the audience never knows why they are told together.........until the final scene.
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Grace, a young girl, escapes from the confines of a free-love, religious cult. She is found by Bari, a shy Southern recluse harboring his own secrets. Together they return to the cult compound in attempts to rescue Grace's brother from a terrible fate.
Keywords: cult, redemption, southern-gothic
You will listen...and learn.
Grace: Can you take me back there?::Bari: Where?::Grace: To the family.
Levi: When I need to love you and you refuse me, you're refusing the love of God himself. I am his vessel.
Bari: What are they gonna do to him?::Grace: Sleep him in the woodshed and do this again tomorrow.::Bari: For how long?::Grace: 'Til there's no more skin on his back.
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Devils and Dust is a feature length film about a young woman named Laura Stone who travels halfway around the world in search of her father. Laura was raised by her mother on a farm in rural Idaho, and now as an adult, has conflicting emotions about her desire for adventure, finding her father, and fulfilling her responsibilities to the farm. One fateful day, those conflicts finally compel Laura to start a journey south and find the answers she needs. Although sometimes not finding anything, but seeing everything, can bring the peace you were looking for. The goal of this movie is to inspire all of us to walk a different path and follow our hearts. Devils and Dust is a journey of triumph and wonder, and a film which takes you to some of the most beautiful places of North and Central America, all seen through the eyes of one adventurous woman.
Sometimes not finding anything, but seeing everything, will bring the peace you need.
Sometimes love's complications force young hearts to take decisions reserved to adults.
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Jan Dara grows up in a house lacking in love but abundant in lust. He quickly picks up the sinful way of life of the man who married his mother after she became pregnant from being raped. His 'father's' mistress welcomes the young boy into her literal bosom. Wanting badly to know his real father, Jan leaves the house, only coming back after Khun Luang's daughter falls pregnant out of wedlock. Jan does a favor to his 'father' by marrying her, even though he is deeply in love with the mistress. The truth about his birth, as Jan will later learn, is as confusing and messed up as his present life and the lives of those around him.
Keywords: 15-year-old, 1930s, abortion, adultery, aunt-nephew-relationship, bangkok-thailand, banishment, based-on-novel, child-born-of-rape, coming-of-age
Saisho no kioku wo, oboeteimasuka [Japan]
Asia's erotic phenomenon!
A story of sex, guilt and retribution.
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Kurt is born in Gothenburg in 1945. His mother is a timid housewife, his father a loud-mouthed tram driver. Already from an early age, Kurt has an ability to make a mess of everything he does. He is secretly in love with a girl in his school, Gudrun, but has to do with the less attractive Gun.
Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, family-relationships, farce, historical-event