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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The Mother An Australian Magazine, The Mother, featured a photograph by Birth Balance in their July/August 2008 issue on page 26. |
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Pasvack Valley Community Life newspaper Pasvack Valley Community Life newspaperof New Jersey featured one |
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The National Guide to a Healthy Birth Birth Balance has 2 photographs included in The National Healthy Birth Guide of 2008/2009. The Guide was included in the ‘Business of Being Born’ DVD. The brochure is produced by Choices In Childbirth, NYC. |
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The New York Guide to a Healthy Birth NY Healthy Guide No.3 2008/09, put out by Choices in Childbirth of NYC, has included 4 breathtaking photographs by Birth Balance in their annual guide. |
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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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