To recall an almost lost midwifery art of listening to babies in-womb with the aid of a pinard (or stethoscope) instead of technology (Dopplers), MIDIRS UK (Midwifery Digest) donated to Hampi Warmi Peru aluminium-light pinards - to be donated in turn to our midwifery/ doula students on the "Wachakuy: Sacred Birth Way" birth training program to birth students, doulas, midwives and doctors.
We have also donated this last year and the present year to Peruvian obstetras and midwife-doctors working either independently (homebirth) in Lima and
obstetras in the Cusco area working in public health centers. Given with the intention that this important midwifery art of listening to baby's heart beat without the aid of technology-waves is not lost and preventing the potential (not so-well studied) side-effects of its routine use for babies-in womb well-being (see Sarah Buckley, "Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering" for the warning on this). This type of auscultation is also more culturally-appropriate for Andean mothers during public health center pre-natals, than the wooshing sound of Dopplers on their bellies. So that they too feel more relaxed during their pre-natal care, and in turn their babies-in-womb.
Happy pinard listen-in!
