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 Birth & Midwifery in Russia
RESOURCES FOR PARENTS AND PRACTITIONERS
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Katerina Perkhova and Veronika Nazarova
 Katerina Perkhova, editor in chief Domashniy Rebenok (Home Child) magazine, journalist, photographer and mother of two homebirthed children. Katerina and her husband, Philip Perkhov, the magazine’s publisher and art director, say they first envisioned their magazine after their second child, Masha, was born at home, surrounded by a close group of loved ones. Their first son, Michael, had already introduced them to the worlds of "natural parenting" and "attachment parenting." Katerina explains that, in the Soviet Union, information about natural parenting had been closed, like secret knowledge. Today, there is more than enough information available about natural childbirth, breastfeeding, using a sling, natural medicine, natural health, alternative education and a healthy lifestyle. With Home Child magazine, they hope to make these resources more easily accessible and to help parents separate fact from opinion, and scientific evidence from mythmaking.
Midwifery Today and Home Child magazine organized a joint conference in Russia in 2010. More information: Midwifery Today scrapbook and http://www.midwiferytoday.ru/
Katerina and Philip are planning to publish Midwifery Today magazine in the Russian language. For subscription information: http://domrebenok.ru/podpiska-midwifery-today.html
 Veronika Nazarova is a family doctor and homeopath who has been practicing homebirth midwifery for 15 years. Her greatest life passion is gentle, undisturbed births. Veronika is convinced that knowledge and information give women and families strength to make their own choices. She works at Russia’s first Center for Traditional Midwifery (http://www.center-akusherstva.ru/), founded by her friend and fellow midwife, Tamara Sadovaya.
Besides being doctor and midwife, she enjoys teaching other midwives, doctors and parents about normal physiology, natural ways of giving birth and living. For that she participates in Midwifery Today conferences, reads books, journal articles and Web sites in different languages and shares this knowledge with parents and colleagues. She has translated several homeopathic books from English into Russian.
Together with her colleagues from the Wonderful Child Parents’ Center, Veronika developed the first Russian-language Web site on midwifery called Akusherstvo Segodnya at www.midwifery.ru. She is always happy to help parents and childbirth practioners make contact and find each other all over the world!
Birth/Midwifery
- Moscow Wonderful Child Parents’ Center
- Moscow Vozrojdenie Family Center—Russia’s midwifery center based on the midwifery model of care: birth in hospital with midwife, birth at home. Global prepare to natural pregnancy. Classes in sauna and swimming pool.
- Moscow Rojdestvo Parents’ School—Russia’s midwifery center based on the midwifery model of care: birth in hospital with midwife, birth at home, prepare to natural pregnancy. Classes for children and parents.
- St. Petersburg "Kolybelka" Center for Parenting Culture—prepares families for healthy and conscious conception, for natural gentle births (including waterbirth). Yoga, fitness, aquatraining, singing in chorus. Postnatal care, breastfeeding support. Breastfeeding moms club. Swimming and exercises for babies. Groups for babies and children early development. Has English-speaking staff.
- Akusherstvo Segodnya—Russian-language informational and educational Web site for childbirth practitioners and parents
- Moscow "Sadovoy" Center for Traditional Midwifery—Russia’s first midwifery center based on the midwifery model of care. Our staff includes midwives, homeopaths and osteopaths as well as obstetricians and pediatricians. Languages spoken by staff members include English, French and German. We provide ultrasound, lab work, educational and exercise classes.
Parenting/Breastfeeding
- Domashniy Rebenok—Russian-language informational Web site for parents about natural birth, health, attachment parenting, home education, ecology
- Theresa Yaroshevich—offering Mommy Milk Meet-ups with other nursing and expecting moms
- Moscow "Mam-studio" Future Parents Club—in the big Moscow Family Center Mir Detstva
- Barnaoul "Rastem Vmeste" Center for Family and Childhood—prenatal classes, psychological support, exercises and dancing, aquaerobics for future moms; groups for children
- Toliatti Center for Healthy Family—Web site and prenatal class "Pavushki" (old Russian name for pregnant women); dancing/fitness/swimming for future moms and for mom and baby
- Oranjevaya Mama—the Russian-language Web site for natural, harmonious, joyful and happy parenting. Information on slings, natural childbirth, breastfeeding, communication, sleeping together, etc. The authors are teachers, psychologists, anthropologist, midwives and moms who shares their experiences. The Web site’s mom Marianna speaks and writes English.
Education
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