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Check out the NEW DVD/Book Combination release: “Perceptions, Reflections, Connections.”

To order and/or preview DVD and Book, please please click here.


NEW! Teleclass Series
with NYC Doula, Judith Elaine Halek. Hosted and Produced by Birth Balance.

For full descriptions and registration of all 9 Workshops, click here.

Due to unexpected circumstances, Judith Halek will NOT be presenting the Tele-Class Series until further notice.  Please check out the listings of the Tele-Classes and sign up to be contacted when they will be offered.


BIRTH FILMS

Babies - 2010
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Reducing Infant Mortality - 2009
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Laboring under an Illusion
Mass Media Childbirth vs. The Real Thing - 2009
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My Best Birth - 2009
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We Care Solar - 2009
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Orgasmic Birth - 2008
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It’s My Body, My Baby, My Birth -2007
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The Business of Being Born - 2007
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The First Cry - 2007
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Pregnant in America  - 2007
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Home Delivery - 2007
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Birth as We Know It - 2006
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Born in the USA
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All My Babies - 1953
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BIRTH PLAYS

Birth, The Play - 2007
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BIRTH EVENTS

Be BOLD (Birth on Labor Day) - 2007
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BIRTH AUDIO DOCUMENTS

Birth (Thin Air Media) - 2008
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Born (Thin Air Media) - 2008
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BIRTH SURVEY

The Birth Survey - 2008
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On a cold, billowy evening of November 15, 1987, the conception of Birth Balance occurred in a New York loft on 22nd Street between 5th and 6th Avenue. Judith Elaine Halek, Director of Birth Balance, attended a labor, as a friend, labor support doula, massage specialist and pregnancy/labor/birth/family/newborn photographer.

At one end of the loft, the mother, father, Judith and midwife ended up seated train style in an 6.5 foot wide, 4 foot deep, copper butter urn. At 11:45 PM, the baby (Maxx) and Birth Balance were born. This marked the first home waterbirth with midwife in attendance in New York City.

 

 


Birth Balance's Latest Breaking News

DONA

Reducing Infant Mortality:  Healthy Babies for a Strong Future

DONA, Doula's of North America utilized 5 of Birth Balance's photographs for their banners at the 2008 International Conference. This banner is also displayed multiple times in their slideshow of pictures from the conference.

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Reducing Infant Mortality

Reducing Infant Mortality:  Healthy Babies for a Strong Future

Judith Halek's photograh is used in this short film and in the center of the advertisement. Reducing Infant Mortality's goal is to change the overall birth paradigm and address the issue through this focus on the abysmal infant mortality rate. Their message is simple:  1.  Reduce Infant Mortality   2. Midwifery Model  3.  Save Money. Dircted by Debby Takikawa (What Babies Want) and Dara Knerr Colacchio. 

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Fate of Earth, Fate of Birth

Fate of  Earth - Fate of Birth

Judith Halek has eight photographs in this mini-documentary
on birth by New York City filmmaker, David Sotnik. 

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Midwifery Management of Neonatal Resuscitation

Judith Halek's photograph graces the cover of Karen Strange, CPM, Midwifery Management of Neonatal Resuscitation Information Booklet for her Certification Program.  

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Bebesinfo

Bebesinfo

Bebesinfo.fi displays Birth Balance's photograph on their front page as well as inside their site. Synnytys is Finnish for "delivery".


Bebesinfo online portal is a new website for parents in Finland. It has more than 100 pages of useful information promoting normal childbirth, breastfeeding, and attachment parenting. It also features news on parental issues, and parents can read empowering birth stories or print out a personalized birth wish list for themselves. There is also a panel of parenting experts, who will answer questions.

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Pathways

Pathways

Pathways magazine featured a full page spread of one of Judith's photographs on pg. 27, accompanying an article entitled "The Importance of Skin-to-Skin Contact," issue 20.

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