BEPE Presents: Every month in 2010
Channel 11, NCTV or www.nevadacountytv.org

Tuesdays: 10:30 P.M.
Thursdays: 8:00 P.M.

Current BEPE Presents are available on NCTV website on Live Stream. Click Live Steam for the hours listed above with the presentation for December and January. To view film from the archives, Click Video on Demand/ Health/ Birth and Early Parenting Educators.

BEPE Presents produced by Donna Chamberlain with Charlie Hall.

Birth As We Know It
A 40 minute film by Elena Vladimirova-Tonetti and her commentary to her audience.

Pioneer of Water Birth, Elena tells the story: “In 1982 I was working closely with the Waterbirth pioneer Igor Charkovsky in Russia. The idea to place laboring women in the water came to him in 1963 when he was looking for the ways to relieve a baby’s brain from the shock of gravity. He considered this the main reason why the human brain is not fully available for our use. He states that whales and dolphins have a much better use of their brains, on levels unreachable for humans, because they are not exposed to gravity shock at birth. As proof of their higher intelligence and superior use of their brain, Charkovsky points out that these animals are not territorial and do not kill their own. He suggested that the concussion human beings experience as we emerge from the weightless environment is far more devastating than we care to understand. By the time we grow up and the function of understanding is available to us, we have no reference point to compare our brain power to what it could have been if we had not been, literally, smacked on the head by the immense pressure of our earthly gravity.

This is a 40 minute edition of her film and her personal sharing in a group question and answer session her experience with preparing women to give birth in the Black Sea. She has been in America for over 20 years, bringing film of this event and footage of water births. She gives Birthshops, internationally, to help individuals re-code their memory, prepare for birthing, or to live their lives more fully. www.BirthIntoBeing.com

Now on KOPN from Columbia, Missouri

Momma Rap every other Saturday 2 to 3 p.m. starting May 15, 2010 with BEPE Member, L Janel Martin.

Donna Chamberlain
Birth and Early Parenting Educators
530-470-0649