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Wonderful Birth Photo Set |
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This unique set of laminated A3 photos presents an intimate and dynamic view of labour and birth. For educators, portraying realism has never been easier - each picture develops an aspect of the birth story in a flexible, engaging way.
The 160 images have been especially selected to represent a wide range of subject matter. All aspects of labour are covered, from the normal, physiological and uncomplicated to the technological, instrumental and surgical. Early breastfeeding, water birth, use of self-help techniques and the involvement of partners, families and caregivers are all included.
The sequence of written explanations that goes with each individually numbered photo has been designed to create an actual 'presentation' if required. Both midwives and expectant parents have been very inspired by these images. Midwives cannot wait to use them in classes, and parents feel so much more confident after seeing them.
Copyright Lina Clerke. Produced under licence by NCT Trading Ltd.
For a full detailed description on the 160 photos available with the Wonderful Birth Photo Set please click through here to visit the Wonderful Birth website.
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A must have piece of kit for teaching |
Date Posted: 15/06/2011 |
| If I could only buy one thing to use in my classes it would be this set! I use it every week and the photos cover everything I have ever needed. |
| - Helen, London |
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A picture speaks a thousand words! |
Date Posted: 27/05/2011 |
| I am an NCT antenatal teacher and I bought the complete wonderful birth photoset for use in my classes. They are one of the best teaching aids I have -so useful to show to future parents. A picture speaks a thousand words! I particularly like to use the set to demonstrate that upright positions can still be adopted whilst being monitored in labour I also love the set of cesarean birth photos-lovely emotions are shown on the pictures and it is so useful for parents to be able to visualise what actually happens. I also like to use the pictures of newborns and those of dads holding newborns-my couples love them too. A wonderful set of pictures indeed. Sophie, Cambridge |
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Essential Item |
Date Posted: 14/03/2011 |
| In over 20 years of midwifery practice and 30 years of running groups for pregnant women, I have found the use of photographs an essential element in terms of promoting discussion and learning. Lina Clerkes images of birth will open the minds of women approaching birth - and those who will support them - in terms of possibilities. The images are moving, powerful and awe-inspiring. They capture the potential of women to find the depth of their power and the beauty of birth. |
| Nicky Leap,RM,MSc |
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Wonderful |
Date Posted: 14/03/2011 |
| How wonderful your fotosets are! I wanted something which spoke quite powerfully to women and their partners - your resource is just the ticket. Beautiful, wonderful women and their partners - I feel so humbled to have these images to use - very sacred indeed. Thank you so very much!
Blessings. |
| Claire Birth Teacher |
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Beautiful Photos |
Date Posted: 14/03/2011 |
| "They are beautifully taken photos and being laminated they will last forever.
The medical intervention images are excellent. They very sensitively depict a variety of situations such as monitoring, induction, caesarean and often where women are still able to work with their bodies whilst coping with the medical intervention. They are tasteful and positive, which is something I have been searching for, to help facilitate learning about and to present medical interventions in a more meaningful way.
I was moved by the beautiful shots of parents greeting and bonding with their babies after caesarean.
Many thanks to Lina for this fine work - well done."
Julie Clarke, Childbirth and Parenting Educator, NSW Australia |
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A fantastic tool - I just LOVE THEM! |
Date Posted: 07/08/2010 |
| "I have been using Linas wonderful childbirth photo-set for 2 years, and have found it a fantastic tool to powerfully get the "essential messages" across.
The pictures bring to life what the teacher has been describing.
They help couples to familiarise themselves with a process that they have only heard about rather than witnessed.
Importantly, the pictures reinforce how women can trust their bodies and flow with labour, and how partners can effectively support women as they travel through many birth scenarios. They show many examples of women instinctively labouring and giving birth, in a variety of birth settings.
The images demonstrate the importance of our environment in birth and how we can adapt hospital rooms. They also show how women can still work with their bodies despite the use of technology.
I use the photo sets with a wide range of expectant parents, who love the pictures and find them confidence-building and reassuring.
I find them especially useful for teaching teenage parents, because they see the wide range of strategies women use to cope with the pain of labour, and the ebb and flow of labour, and the teenage parents relate directly to the examples of young women in the photos.
There is so much that a teacher can bring out from each picture, and using them brings ones teaching to life.
Altogether, they make my job as a teacher more enjoyable and easier,
and i just LOVE THEM!" Agnes Munday NCT National Childbirth Trust Teacher Brighton and Hove, UK |
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The best teaching resource I have ever used |
Date Posted: 07/08/2010 |
| "These pictures are brilliant for showing what labour and birth and the things associated with birth look like.They are excellent, unposed photos of ordinary women. They show what happens and what is possible and women identify with them. These pictures convey what many words cannot and they stay in the visual memory.
My set has been borrowed by lecturers for teaching student midwives and medical students, by antenatal teachers working with groups and by clinical midwives for use with individual women. All are enthusiastic about their educational power.
They are the best teaching resource I have ever used as a midwife."
Mavis kirkham, Professor of Midwifery, University of Sheffield. |
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