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Monthly Archives: May 2013

Barbara Harper Part II

15 Wednesday May 2013

Posted by partonaturalpanama in HOME BIRTHING, IMAGES, NATURAL BIRTHING, NEWS, STORIES, WATERBIRTH

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Unforgettable

Unforgettable

Together

Together

Discussing all the pointsDiscussing all the points

Together

Together

As part of the visit of Barbara Harper to our country and in coordination with the United Nations World Fund Population, we traveled to the Chiriquí Province located to the west of the Republic.

We visited the Ngäbe Buglé region. This indigenous region is the biggest and has the most population of the country, it also covers a territory that involves three provinces in Panama: Chiriquí, Veraguas and Bocas del Toro.
The so called “lagoons” of poverty the biggest in Panama are precisely located there. There are foreigner enterprises that are developing big scale hydroelectric projects, using the innumerable rivers, exporting electricity to neighbor countries, and the indigenous from the region, meaning the owners of those lands, do not count with electric light.

There in the high lands of the region we went with Barbara and we held encounters with the Ngäbes empiric midwifes and health staff assigned to those areas. We were in the Health Center of Hato Chamí the District of Nole Duima of the Nedriní Region.

We shared experiences and talked for hours with them, we saw videos of water births and natural births. We had to translate from English to Spanish and from Spanish to Ngäbe and vice versa.

We have to point out emphatically: that the traditions, the way of performing the deliveries, the bond between mother and child, childbirth and maternal breastfeeding of our Ngäbe Buglé population are perfect.

It’s extraordinary how the husband keeps her company and supports her during birth, the wisdom and peace of the midwife that accompanies the mothers.
The exchange was truthfully productive and exciting. Like Barbara Harper used to say, it is the language of infinite love that has no boundaries nor obstacles of any kind.

It profoundly caught our attention the support of the nurse assigned and all of the staff at the center.

It was an extraordinary experience.

The day after in David, Barbara Harper performed a magisterial conference in the Infirmary Faculty of the National University of Chiriquí.
In the conference participated approximately 80 students of obstetrician infirmary, were there´s a group of about 25 of them that are preparing to give support in the care of pregnant women in the Ngäbe Buglé region.
Literally it was a two hour presentation and exchange without anyone even blinking.

All of these show that we are moving forward. That the women in our country every day are more active in the defense of their rights to a natural and soft maternity, free of unnecessary interventions and respectful of the intimacy of the woman and her family.

We must thank the invaluable support of all the staff at the United Nations World Fund Population assigned to the Ngäbe Buglé region that performs an irreplaceable job.

Dr. Rodrigo Aybar

Barbara Harper Part I

14 Tuesday May 2013

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Barbara Harper

Barbara Harper

Unforgettable

Unforgettable

Thanks to the invaluable support and effort of Elizabeth Noble, author and educator all of her life for pregnant women, Barbara Harper contacted us and we had the wonderful opportunity to have her between us.

Without a doubt it was an unforgettable visit in which we all learned plenty. It was a unique and wonderful week in our lives.

The first two to three days she was with us in Panama city and then we traveled to the Chiriqui Province located to the west of our country.

On Tuesday April 23rd it was our meeting with the pregnant women, mothers and familiars. To the event assisted university students, doctors, representatives of the birth inscription service of our country, journalists and many more.

Briana and Lidia, two of our wonderful mothers, narrated their water birth experience.  It was exciting!!

Then Barbara marveled us with her exposure of almost three hours.  Nobody moved from their seat.  It was the mothers and fathers in their world showing their infinite human and maternal spirit, proudly.

Graciela and I were privileged witnesses of the event.

Next day Barbara was interviewed by the magazine Ellas. Then we shared in the Miraflores restaurant beside our Panama Canal and then we visited Misty’s house whose family just had a water birth.

The teachings and wisdom of Barbara, her deep love is going to be kept engraved forever in our minds and hearts.

 Thanks Barbara!!

Dra. Graciela Anhel de Aybar

Dr. Rodrigo Aybar

Brianna and her husband John Hanna

Brianna and her husband John Hanna

Our dear Lidia!

Our dear Lidia!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Barbara Harper, Misty, Matt, Graciela and the King!

Barbara Harper, Misty, Matt, Graciela and the King!

Misty

09 Thursday May 2013

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The first look

The first look

All together

All together

In a beautiful house from the reverted area on Panama City we lived un unforgettable experience.

It’s the house of Misty and Matt. They are a very special couple. They perform a generous and extraordinary effort in Panama, protecting abandoned children.

Misty was awaiting the arrival of her first baby. She is simple, intelligent and infinitely motherly.

Matt is joyful, secure and immensely tender. They both prepared cautiously for the arrival of their son.

We arrived at Clayton at night. Misty was already in the transition stage, meaning an advanced dilation. In this stage the energetic cost of the mother is huge and comes with the sensation of “I can’t” or “I’m not going to make it”.

Graciela prepared the pool quickly and a few minutes later Misty was in it and was relaxing.

Parting from here everything changed. Graciela and I went to another room to rest and read. Matt stayed beside Misty without moving from her side, giving her all the possible love of this world and watchful of everything.

After 2 hours we got close to Misty and little time was missing. She had reached the complete dilation and it started to appear the common sounds of her body of an imminent birth.

Isaac was born! Beautiful! Strong! Healthy!

We step aside a little and did nothing else but watch this infinite enchanted moment of reunion between both mother and baby.

We can’t say much more but: Thank you Misty and Matt for letting us feel the warmth and love of your home and the marvelous arrival of Isaac.

A few days later we visited Misty and her family in the company of Barbara Harper and Elizabeth Noble.

We couldn’t keep from sharing with our lustrous visitors this unique and wonderful experience.

An unforgetable day

An unforgettable day

Barbara Harper, Misty, Matt, Graciela and the King!

Barbara Harper, Misty, Matt, Graciela and the King!

Dra. Graciela A. de Aybar
Dr. Rodrigo Aybar

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