Got something to say about "evidence-based maternity and delivery care," and a good feel for the attention span of the YouTube generation? (That's about four to seven minutes apparently.) Get your camcorder (or cell phone) and start shooting.
And then send your finished product to Birth Matters Virginia, an organization that works "to improve the culture of birth in Virginia by promoting an
evidence-based model of maternity care and supporting care providers
who practice mother- and baby-friendly care," for their documentary film contest.
Deadline: Mother's Day. Prizes: $1000, $500, and $100. Judges: Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, filmmakers behind the acclaimed
documentary The Business of Being Born and Sarah Buckley, M.D., international birth expert and author of Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering. More details: here.
The brilliance behind this, as I think someone else figured out before me though I can't find the reference right now, is that given enough entries, it provides the opportunity to flood YouTube with educational videos about birth and maternity care, possibly helping to counteract the influence of the Dr. Phils of the world. On the other hand, if you search for birth on YouTube right now, you already get "twin VBAC home birth" among the top hits. Then again, cool as that is, that's probably a little more specific (and a little more full of religious overtones) than the Birth Matters folks are looking for.
Photo by mil8.
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