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Big Stretch (NTSC format: US and Japan)

Stories, insights and distilled wisdom, as mothers and families share how birth has stretched and transformed them: a unique and powerful film. Price includes free shipping!

$60.00

How will the journey from pregnancy to birth and mothering affect you?

What changes can you expect and what help can you draw on to navigate this extraordinary transition?

The Big Stretch presents a fresh insight into the amazing journey each woman takes in becoming a mother. Women in different stages of childbearing reflect on how they are ‘stretched’ in every way — emotionally, physically and spiritually, by labour and birth.

You are invited to become intimately engaged, share in the transformation, and follow their stories to the first moments and days after birth. Topics explored include breath awareness, pain and the intensity of birth, vaginal and body awareness, challenges and asking for help, relationships and personal transformations.

This DVD is a valuable resource for pregnant women and their families, birth educators and anyone supporting birthing mothers. Included is a DVD extra on baby massage and a 20 page booklet to be used in conjunction.

Sarah’s comments:The Big Stretch is not your usual birth film. Rather than focusing just on images of women giving birth, film-maker Alieta Belle and midwife Jenny Blyth invited women to share their distilled wisdom about this major transformation: their hopes and fears, their joys and disappointments; the changes that they experienced in themselves and their bodies, and their advice for other women. The result is a unique and powerful collection of birthing wisdom and insights into the journey of birth and motherhood.

The Big Stretch is beautiful to watch, not only because of its lovely images and photography, but also because the women interviewed are so comfortable in their bodies. Watching this film, we can feel our own bodies and to absorb some of their ease: another great gift in preparing for birth.

This Australia-made DVD has received wide acclaim around the world and has been shown in hospitals as well as homes.

NB: This is the NTSC version for viewers in the US and Japan.
Buyers in Australia, NZ and Europe will usually need to purchase the PAL version here.
If in doubt, check your DVD player.