What Babies Want: The Trailer for the Film

[wakingupkk]

I've got a problem with the way NICU babies are discussed in the movie. My baby was born at 24 weeks because I had seizures from eclampsia. She stayed in the NICU for 4 months. She was hooked up to monitors but that didn't stop me from doing kangaroo, breast feeding anything else. I made sure the nurses and volunteers cuddled with her as well if I wasn't able to be with her. She is now 8 months old, she loves people and being hugged. She in no way bonded to machines. That's ridiculous.

[Uglyassrude1998]

Wtf

[Lollocide]

what? They'll bond with the machines?

Wow, I guess some random pregnant woman knows better than BEING A LOVING PARENT TO THEIR CHILD PROVES. I was hooked up to machines for 3 weeks as a baby and I still bonded to my mom instead of an EKG monitor. Guess its better to play off 'modern medicine' that increases survival rates as 'stupid' than actually be a loving parent. Good story, people.

[jadoredashboard]

What babies want.....I think, breastfeeding, a semi-peaceful birth, and to retain their intact bodies. Also, less drugs during labor.

[melissahammaker]

I am all for natural labor I had two natural births of two nine pound boys, I was shown how to pull out my boy on my own!! It was beautiful the best thing I have ever done in my life. If the mother is let to relax and ride the contractions in a supportive environment she will be successful.

[henndri]

NICE DOCUMENT THAT CONTAINS GOOD INFORMATION FOR EVERYONE

[helent87]

what a loud of rubbish!

[tzkelley]

Hippies.

[WonderWomanFan4life]

@tzkelley

io love hippies

[aijunk2]

0:24 what they do not want is that fat tit. lol :)

[KaiteDid5]

I had my little girl in a hospital and once she was born, she never left my room. I had an amazing experience in a Carholic hospital surrounded by family and great staff. I wouldn't change it for the world. People talk so badly of hospitals in general, bout krts remember, at least we are we gave the option if we are in need....but do what you think is best for you and yours.

[henndri]

GOOD VIDEO

[fannwill]

I love the idea of natural birth lots of time for parents to nurture a strong attachment to their baby right after birth. But, my first baby was born suffering from group B strep disease and had to be rushed to the NICU to save her life. She looked just like the baby pictured on a warming table with an oxygen hood over her whole head. It was far from ideal, but she LIVED! Keep in mind that the baby's life is the most important consideration and some babies really need medical help at birth.

[prettyanka]

@fannwill i so don't want this strepto b thing occures to MY baby (I'll give birth to my daughter in smth like less then 2 weeks at home, i have this strepto b, and my midwife doesn't want to take any risk - so she's ready to send me to hospital at smallest worriing sign.) I really don't want ANY medical intervention to my birth. i just hate stupid modern medicine

[KaliKannibal]

@Cont123rolled Fuck terrorist

[bshbz82]

ya you doing well in zone of engourge the breast feeding

[freemandiaz]

what was with the ceremony in the woods?

[1angel0777]

@freemandiaz It looked like some sort of baby shower or something.

[lolo1400lolo1980]

هبالة امريكان يحبوا يعملوا من الحبة قية عساهم العمى من الفضاوة اللي هم فيها ، بس ياكلوا خيرات الشعوب ويجوا يعملوا تفاهتهم على العالم وكأن العالم لا يهمه سوا الامريكان عساهم الموت يارب

[dvilrcc]

@lolo1400lolo1980 yeah totally dude...you are right..but im sceptic on ur 2nd point..is torres really gonna stay at liverpool?

[tacconelli]

@dvilrcc lol

[nas1855]

سبحان من بيده ملك السموات والارض

يحيي ويميت وهو على كل شيء قدير

[szfehler]

i love this! We had our last two babies at home, with just people who loved baby present - the last three were in water. Hospitals are busy, dirty places filled with strangers, strange smells, random rules... it's a miracle that people put up with having birth stolen and degraded so often - but we so often only have one or two chances, and we feel safe going with the majority. i've had four "their way" and three "my way" and my way is better for me and my babies

[puffinstuffsmum]

Mmmm, but I bet if 'baby' developed cancer you'd be straight down to the smelly, dirty, germ ridden hospital where people who didn't love 'baby' were in attendance, coz whale music, water and fairtrade candles don't really cut it when it really matters. I appreciate hospitals aren't really private, but I bet you'd swallow your words PDQ when it really mattered.

[nefeli1969]

so true!!!

[freemandiaz]

thanks for helping the natural birth community confirm by your own words that "hospitals are for sick people."

BTW, your message has a feel of hate and anger. I'm sorry for you.

[PeaceLoveEternity]

I want to see this film!

[usernameDIGA]

omg thats such a cute baby!

[spricket24]

Well if a baby is born premature or sick then it HAS to be next to a machine. If not, then the mother should be holding it and not letting the baby just sit in the nursery. :)

[amaragrace713]

premature/sick newborns have an even GREATER NEED to be on their mother's body... for more reasons than 'bonding'

[islandmamma]

I would like to see preemies sleeping with moms, where machines can work and so can motherly love.

[threegarzas]

I adopdet a 11 week premie. My husband and I were there for the birth. I spent almost every hour of every day for the next 6 weeks with her attached to my chest. Not feeding just cuddling. She's now 13 and is still a Mama's girl. She and I have the most amazing relationship. More than I could have EVER imagined. I say the bonding I did with her in the hospital has paid off 10 fold and then some. It's the most amazing love ever. She listened to my heart for those weeks and she knows ME.

[MahonFilms]

thats a great message. i think if more people understood that then we wouldnt have so many stupid people in this country and this world.

[TrueDavebucket]

"Baby will bond with the machine?" Well why not get them started early. Were all bonded with them anyway.

[amaragrace713]

...and it would be REALLY GOOD to change that ASAP

[LakeClaytor1]

This is SO absurd.

[lioralourie]

Mister FLiblle you need to read Tomorrow's Baby by Dr. Thomas Verny, and also Sue Gerhardt's "Why Love Matters" !

This film What Babies Want is based on very valid neurological and psychological science, brought into practical usage for every new parent. ATTACHMENT PARENTING rocks.

[MisterFIibble]

I don't have to read anything. I'm not a parent. I don't intent on being a parent for quite some time. I know full well that I'm not ready for the life change that comes along with it, not that anyone is truly ever 100% ready for such a traumatic event.

[MisterFIibble]

Anyone else remember being born? No? I didn't think so. This is stupid.

[anatoriac]

I'm assuming you don't have children of your own

[MisterFIibble]

Your assumption doesn't have anything to do with the fact that I don't remember being born.

[anatoriac]

Yes, I know it doesn't. But when you have a baby you understand how much they need human touch and love especially just after birth. If you don't remember its because your brain is very immature at that age and your memory is not yet developed. Newborn babies exist with the basic "animal" instincts - and this involves needing to be near and bonding with its mother. If you had children you'd understand this, and not think it was stupid.

[MisterFIibble]

There's no way that you can know that. I resent your second assumption that I would feel differently or "understand" if I had children. I do understand what's being said. That doesn't mean I agree with it. You have your views, and I have mine; both deserve respect.

[anatoriac]

Fair dinkums MisterFlibble.  We'll agree to disagree on this one...

[CerebralWTF]

If you're male, then you've never experienced a change due to homones since you hit puberty. I was pregnant and miscarried, and there's a change that occurs even before you give birth. Just being pregnnt changes your sense of taste and smell... certain things, such as coffee, will taste or smell completely different.

After my miscarriage I suffered terrible postpartum depression. Another hormonal change that made me completely different.

[CerebralWTF]

Your body produces hormones that are a reaction to your pregnant wife's pheromones. If you spend any time near her, you may experience "sympathetic pregnancy" where you get morning sickness too.

After the baby is born, you will most likely feel like a completely different person.  Your body makes hormones that change your outlook on life.. your most important desire becomes to further your child's survival. A lot of people claim it's amazing.. don't just brush them off.. listen.

[MisterFIibble]

I am aware of the changes that happen to both male and female regarding their general outlook on life when they are expecting or just had a baby. I think I will probably want to experience this one day, and of course I believe I will want to do everything for my child that I can.

However, I have never been a maternal person. Pregnancy may change that, or it may not. I'm not sure. I hope it does, because I think it would be harder to raise a child with feelings of such indifference.

[amaragrace713]

Yes...and WAY harder for the child in fact. I honor & respect women who choose not to be mothers because they don't 'feel' it...saves everyone lots of grief & heartache. "Mother wasn't 'there for me' (physically and/or emotionally) is possibly the deepest wound a human can endure.

[MisterFIibble]

I'm female. I experience hormone-related changes daily.

[nefeli1969]

This is a bunch of gobledy-gook bull-s**T!! Birkenstock wearing hippies should go back to the 1970s and shake your tambourine! This is the 21st century!!

[Notawesomeatall7]

I am thinking of renting this, but I hope that it isn't aout detering woman and families away from hospitals altogether- is it?

[Notawesomeatall7]

I am thinking of renting this, but I hope that it isn't aout detering woman and families away from hospitals altogether- is it?

[TaylorKevinjonasluv]

sweet

[ferhatgulsum]

yha bebekler kadar tatlısı yoq be dünyada

[beyondthesquare]

I just watched this today with my friends and husband, I have to say it is very good, and best watched before conception, but good no matter when you come across it it will be good value. I recommend it, it makes sense and everyone is happy when you just do things as naturally and instinctively as possible, and you don't have to be a hippy to be natural when it comes to birth and parenting, great dvd-well done to the producers!

[12valvepower]

why the hell does the baby ever have to come out of you?

[shellaronireno]

are you kidding me, "babies bond with the machine". Yeah it's ideal to take your newborn in your arms immediately, but sometimes that's not the case; especially if the child's life is in danger. Are they trying to say that it's more important to "bond" with the child than receive medical attention that may keep them alive. My son was in nicu for 5 hours after he was born, and he is a well adjusted, loving child to me, his mother.

[slowmovement]

Austrian pediater Markovitz could show in the early nineties that more babies, who were born too early survived if lying on their mothers' bellies instead being in the incubator.

[LadyFlameSniper]

so many good baby documentaries have been coming out recently and I have no idea how I'll get to see any of them.

[aradiapaganus]

Ooooh... now I have to see this! :D Thanks for posting! I'll be surfing over to the website shortly!

[Felleena]

How cute!

[MysticZen]

beautiful, im glad someone is saying this. we were discussing in my university lecture how more mothers are getting the C-section because doctors are paid extra for performing the simple surgery, and it gets the parents out faster of the hospital. Although on the flip side, machines have saved babies lives and i am one of them, and greatful to science and my family for it.

[triogamy]

hospital birth is a a time driven system.the baby and mother are made to feel they must "Get it overwith"as quickly as

possible.Slow down and enjoy the ride.

[slowmovement]

you're so right. today even the beginning of life is about efficiency. that is a bad thing.

[WonderWomanFan4life]

@triogamy

yeah hurry up get out and prepare for the next one.