Today we released the last 3 videos in our Childbirth Series, covering the birth and early postpartum period.

Birthing the Baby shows how to assist a mother to safely birth her baby and minimize tearing of the vagina. Managing the Third Stage of Labor features the use of uterotonics to prevent postpartum hemorrhage and shows how to deliver the placenta. The Birth: Labor, Delivery, and Early Postpartum shows best practices for the full birth sequence, starting with labor through to immediate postpartum.

These 3 videos complete our series of 12 videos on normal childbirth. The series can help health workers improve the quality of care during childbirth and help protect the lives of birthing women. We feature a midwifery approach to care with a birth attendant working solo, the norm in small facilities in much of the developing world. The videos are available in English, French, and Spanish and can be downloaded free-of-charge for use in low-resource settings: http://globalhealthmedia.org/videos/

Producing teaching videos filmed in and for the developing world is challenging. It has been through the collaboration of many people, including a number on this forum, that we have been able to meet those challenges. HIFA members have been instrumental in serving as content experts, field-testers, clinical site hosts, translators and narrators, and in distributing the videos all over the world.

Looking ahead, we have a breastfeeding series in the pipeline, for both health workers and mothers. We are now in the planning stages of our next project, a series of teaching videos on care of preterm babies in low resource settings. We will be working closely with the American Academy of Pediatrics and other experts to produce these videos that will complement their new curriculum, Essential Care for Small Babies.

Warm regards,

Deb

Deborah Van Dyke, Director

Global Health Media Project

802-496-7556

HIFA profile: Deborah Van Dyke is the Founder and Director of Global Health Media Project, an organization producing videos that bring to life critical health care information for providers and populations in low-resource settings.  Capitalizing on advances in ICT will enable distribution worldwide at lower cost via the Internet and mobile devices.  She is a family practice clinician with extensive experience with MSF/Doctors Without Borders, based in the US. deb AT globalhealthmedia.org

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