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Pregnancy and Birth Audio-visuals
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Note: This is a selected list of current videos as well as classics in the subject of Pregnancy and Birth.
- A New Life
WQ 210 VC2 1985
- This program looks at the events that lead from the fertilized cell to a human baby.
Using film of living fetuses in the womb, it explains how the familiar
human shape is "sculpted" out of the basic cell mass, what controls the
timing of the various stages of fetal development and what life is like
for a fetus.
(videocassette ½"-- 26 min)
- Amazing Newborn
WS 420 VC7 1975
- Portrays the degree of behavioral development already present in the neonate.
Illustrates the infant's capabilities to fixate on objects, have visual
preferences, turn their heads in response to spoken word, mimic and move
their bodies in rhythm of voices.
(videocassette ½"-- 25 min)
- Baby To Be: The Video Guide to Pregnancy
WQ 175 VC5 1996
- Presents up-to-date information on managing the discomforts of pregnancy, as well as offering emotional reassurance and support.
- Getting Prenatal Care
- Your Growing Baby
- Your Changing Body
- Eating for Two
- What's Safe, What Isn't
- Keeping Fit
- Enjoying your Pregnancy
- Especially for Dads
- When to Call the Doctor
- Getting Ready for Baby
(1 videocassette ½"-- 52 min)
- Behavior of the Premature Infant
WS 410 VC2 1983
- Describes the sensory, motor, and social development of the premature infant.
Compares the developments of the premature infant and the full-term infant.
(videocassette ½"-- 25 min)
- Born in the U.S.A.: A Documentary About Childbirth in America
WQ 300 VC6 2000
- Explores the landscape of maternity care through the eyes of three caregivers: an obstetrician working at a teaching hospital,
a licensed midwife attending home births, and a certified nurse-midwife bridging both worlds in an urban, free-standing birth center.
The film raises questions about childbirth practices in this country, including questions about technology, about social and
other factors that impact our experiences of childbirth, and about what constitutes best care.
(videocassette ½"-- 56 min)
- Breastfeeding: A Special Relationship
WS 125 VC1 1991
- Teaches how to breastfeed successfully by reading a baby's signals and
recognizing the responses of the mother's body. Segments include:
feeding the newborn, breastfeeding positions, what to do in case of problems
and going to work.
(videocassette ½"-- 24 min)
- Burden of Knowledge: Moral Dilemmas in Prenatal Testing
WQ 209 VC4 1994
- Serves as a primer on the standard procedures and the issues involved in
prenatal testing. Presents a wide variety of viewpoints and experiences,
including interviews with doctors, geneticists, midwives, counselors, people
with disabilities and seven couples who were offered prenatal testing.
(videocassette ½"-- 54 min)
- Cesarean Birth: The Inside Story
WQ 430 VC3 1998
- Explains the cesarean section procedure and covers the effects and possible side-effects of anesthetics,
what to expect in the operating room, overcoming feelings of failure, the recovery process, and the reason
behind C-section, to protect the health of the mother and baby.
(videocassette ½"-- 20 min)
- Challenge to Care: Strategies to Help Chemically Dependent Women and Their Children
WQ 211 VC3 1990
- Demonstrates how to conduct a non-judgmental substance
use history, the impact of drugs on fetal development, signs of concern
at labor and delivery, behaviors of newborns exposed to drugs or alcohol,
how to comfort and handle substance exposed babies, a Brazelton assessment
of a cocaine-exposed baby, postpartum teaching of chemically dependent
mothers, and pediatric follow-up combined with substance abuse therapy
for mothers.
(videocassette ½"-- 38 min)
- Cross Training for Obstetrical Nursing Staff
WY 157 VC3 1992
- Contents of each program outlined in resource
manual.
- Antepartum care (30 min)
- Intrapartum care (33 min)
- Postpartum care (30 min)
- Preterm labor and third trimester bleeding
(38 min.)
- Diabetes in Pregnancy (28 min)
- Pregnancy induced hypertension
(27 min)
(6 videocassettes ½" -- 186 min)
- David with F.A.S.
WQ 211 VC4 1996
- Provides a unique personal look at what it's like to grow up and live with the effects of FAS, through the words and experiences of a victim and his family.
(videocassette ½"-- 45 min)
- Drug Babies
WQ 211 VC2 1990
- Deals with the physical and emotional problems of children
who have been prenatally exposed to drug and/or alcohol. Addresses
the problems of the mothers involved, and the social services, foster care,
and the treatment available. Covers the future impact on the educational
system.
(videocassette ½"-- 32 min)
- Essentials of Electronic Fetal Monitoring
WQ 209 VC2 Parts 1-3 1994
- Covers principles of
instrumentation, pattern interpretation, and nursing intervention and documentation.
(3 videocassettes ½" -- 62 min)
- Examination of the Infant
WS 141 VC1 1978 no .1
- Demonstrates the techniques and process of a comprehensive examination
of the infant.
(videocassette ½"-- 50 min)
- Fathers
WS 105.5 F2 VC2 1980
- Uses interviews with new and expectant
fathers to explore the role of men during pregnancy and childbirth.
Examines the importance of the father-child bond and changing roles in
child care.
(videocassette ½"-- 26 min)
- Genetic Screening: The Ultimate Preventive Medicine?
QZ 50 VC2 1980
- Looks at current options of prenatal testing and genetic counseling and
how these tests have affected parents and children with genetic disease.
(videocassette ½"-- 59 min)
- Gestational Age Assessment
WQ 210.5 VC2 1991
- Techniques to help students assess the gestational age of an infant. Includes an introduction to the Ballard tool, techniques for assessments, comparison of characteristics and a posttest.
(videocassette ½"-- 27 min)
- Gifts of Love
WS 107 VC1 1982
- Four families of children with Down Syndrome talk about their feelings
and experiences with their handicapped child.
(videocassette ½"-- 24 min)
- The Infant
WS 430 VC2 1982
- Discusses and depicts the rapid growth process of infancy,
the period including one month to one year, from a prone, totally dependent
being to an upright, mobile, exploring individual.
(videocassette ½" -- 38 min)
- Intubating the Newborn
WQ 450 VC1 1996
- Designed for practitioners who assist with, teach, and perform tracheal intubation. Relevant anatomy is reviewed. The procedural sequence is described in detail, using both animation and demonstration on a manikin. Emphasis is placed on pre-clinical instruction.
(videocassette ½" -- 32 min)
- Labor and Delivery for Teens
WQ 300 VC4 1993
- Follows two teens through their labor and delivery in order to show pregnant adolescents what they might expect during their own labor and delivery. A 15-year-old mother-to-be is accompanied by her mother, sister, and coach; an 18-year-old is coached by her boyfriend. Animation illustrates the physiology of labor and birth. Spanish dub of a program originally produced in English. (videocassette ½" --28 min)
- Looking For Love: Teenage Parents
WS 462 VC3 1982
- Teenage mothers express their confused feelings - from loving and worrying
about their children to longing for lost adolescence and mixed opportunities.
(videocassette ½" -- 29 min)
- Medical Ethics: Dilemmas - What's the Right Thing to Do?
WB 9 VC1 Tape 7 1995
- A panel of physicians, educators and ethicists debate cases involving a
compromised fetal and mother. Topics include the ethical values involved
in maternal-fetal conflicts, the role of the physician in resolving these
conflicts, the role of moral and legal reasoning in medicine, and the policy
implications for how such conflicts are resolved.
(videocassette ½" -- 120 min)
- Midwife
WQ 160 VC4 1979
- Explores the home birth practice of two certified nurse-midwives.
Shows two home births and scenes of prenatal and post partum care.
(videocassette ½" -- 26 min)
- Midwife: With Woman
WQ 160 VC2 1982
- Midwives enjoyed a prominent role in maternal health care through the mid-1800's.
This film illustrates how, with the modern concept of nurse-midwife, the
profession has regained a small but important foothold in American maternity
care.
(videocassette ½" -- 28 min)
- Miracle of Birth: 5 Birth Stories
WQ 300 VC5 1997
- Each story follows a woman through labor and delivery in various settings.
(videocassette ½" -- 48 min)
- Miracle Months
WQ 205 VC1 1977
- A unique
look at the growth of a fetus into a human being. Provides actual
live photography of a 40 day old fetus via intrauterine photography.
Explores problem pregnancies and what modern medicine is doing to prevent
them.
(videocassette ½" -- 50 min)
- Neonatology
WY 420 SL1 1986
- Presents non-specific signs and symptoms of malformations important to
the assessment and treatment of diseases and syndromes that can occur patient,
as well as psychological assessment of the childbearing family.
(218 slides + study guide)
- Newborn Care
WS 420 VC8 2000
- This video gives new parents an overview of their newborn's basic needs and helps them begin to bond with their new baby. Information covered includes breast-feeding and formula feeding, dressing, comforting, diapering, etc. (videocassette ½" --27 min)
- Physical Examination of the Newborn
WS 420 VC6 1986
- Offers instruction for nurse practitioners, nurse clinicians, staff nurses,
and student nurses on how to conduct a physical examination of a newborn.
(videocassette ½" -- 18 min)
- Postpartum Care
WY 157 VC3 Tape 3 1992
- Part Three of the six part series "Cross Training for Obstetrical Nursing Staff." (videocassette ½" -- 30 min)
- Post Partum: Caring for Yourself After Delivery
WQ 500 VC3 2001
- Designed to help new mothers take care of themselves both physically and emotionally during the post partum period. Addresses physical, hormonal and emotional changes in the mother, aftercare of episiotomy and caesarean section, breastfeeding, resuming sexual activity and birth control. (videocassette ½" -- 16 min)
- Postpartum Emotions: the Blues & Beyond
WQ 500 VC4 1995
- An informative, fast-paced overview of postpartum emotions which differentiates "baby blues" and normal adjustment from postpartum anxiety, postpartum depression (PPD), and psychosis; lists symptoms which are problematic; and suggests a range of effective intervention options. (videocassette ½" -- 17 min)
- Pregnancy Induced Hypertension
WY 157 VC3 Tape 6 1992
- Part Six of the six part series "Cross Training for Obstetrical Nursing Staff." (videocassette ½" -- 27 min)
- Spiritual Midwifery
WQ 160 VC5 1995
- A documentary of The Farm and the development of its midwifery services in the 1970's. It includes interviews with several midwives and footage from prenatal clinics, several labors and births. The midwives discuss their philosophy and their observations gained from thousands of hours of caring for pregnant and birthing women.
(videocassette ½" -- 30 min)
- The Stages of Labor
WQ 300 VC10 1998
- Presents animation of the labor process, live birth footage, and parents' descriptions of their labor and delivery experiences.
(videocassette ½" --27 min)
- Teenage Pregnancy
WA 310 VC1 1990
- Presents the realities of life facing a group of single
teenage mothers in raising their babies; continuing education, getting
a job, and relationships with the father. Also includes a look at adoption.
(videocassette ½" -- 26 min)
- Tried & True: A Collection of Labor Techniques
WQ 300 VC7 2000
- Nine tried and true chapters include: support, creating comfort, early labor, active labor, back labor,
long labor, pushing and birth, labor support, and perspectives.
(videocassette ½" -- 32 min)
- Twelve-Month Pregnancy
WQ 175 VC3 1988
- This program stresses the importance of treating pregnancy
as a process that begins months before pregnancy takes place. Cautions
about the effects of alcohol and drugs.
(videocassette ½" -- 19 min)
- Understanding Birth: a Comprehensive Guide
WQ 300 VC9 2001
- A comprehensive video covering everything expectant parents need to know from the third trimester to life at home with a newborn.
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Tape 1. Understanding Pregnancy; Understanding Labor; Deborah's Birth; Understanding Comfort Techniques
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Tape 2. Understanding Interventions; Understanding Cesarean Birth; Understanding the Newborn; Understanding Postpartum; Labor Preparation Exercises.
(2 videocassettes ½" -- 148 min)
- Un Embarazo Saludable Para Usted y su Bebe: A healthy Pregnancy for You and Your Baby
WQ 175 VC4 1996
- Title on videocassette label: Healthy pregnancy. Located in HSL Ethnic Health Section.
(videocassette ½" -- 13 min)
- We're Having a Baby!: a Complete Lamaze Prepared Childbirth Class.
WQ 152 VC1 1997
- Prepares soon-to-be moms and dads for Lamaze childbirth. Includes all breathing techniques and relaxation exercises.
(videocassette ½" --120 min)
- Works of wonder
WQ 300 VC11 2000
- A four-part program that offers a comprehensive review of labor and childbirth. Features birth stories narrated by parents from diverse backgrounds, a computer-animated sequence illustrating the anatomy and physiology of labor, an overview of common medical procedures and options, and a section introducing cesarean birth.
(videocassette ½" --84 min)
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