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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMacomb, IL – Western Illinois Birth Services and the Macomb Area Birth Circle are proud to sponsor a screening of the pre-release newly released documentary, The Other Side of the Glass, featuring fathers from around the country sharing their experience of the birth of their babies. Their stories are supported by midwives, doulas, doctors, and other professionals around the world who support a natural, physiological model of mother-baby care in the US.The screening will be on Saturday, June 2 at 2:00pm at the Multicultural Center at WIU. Admission is by donation to the filmmaker and the Macomb Area Birth Circle. The filmmaker will be present and a panel discussion will follow. The film was produced, directed, filmed, and edited by Janel Mirendah, M.A., a CranioSacral-based mama-baby attachment therapist. Executive producer is Mariah Miranda Multi-Media, LLC dba 4M Productions LLC.The Other Side of the Glass is a tapestry of voices and new concepts, with the primary threads throughout the film with what we've always known: 1) humans beings are sentient beings at birth, and 2) our caregivers whether doctors, nurses, or midwives must honor baby-mama focused birth and commit to preservation of mama-baby attachment.The father’s perspective emerges around unnecessary interventions in the hospital birth of the filmmaker’s grandson in 2006. After years of observing men being over-powered and unable to protect their baby and partners in the hospital - men who fiercely protect their children in any other setting - Mirendah witnessed her son-in-law unable to protect his baby and wife. Even as a professional in natural birth and in birth trauma and attachment healing, she was also unable to stop the violation of her daughter and grandson. With no funding, an old camera, and the birth footage captured by her younger (then twelve year-old) daughter, Mirendah set out in January 2008 to do a film - to heal her family. A six month trip became a two year journey. Two more years of editing and the film is now a 3-1/2 hour series. The screening shows one hour.The film challenges our notions about modern birth, about our own birthing experiences, and about how men are harmed during the experience of becoming a father. The current thinking is that men need to prepare to fight for and to claim their rightful role as “protector” in the medical system. Through midwives, doctors, and father’s stories viewers see that this system has no intention of empowering women or men. The film points men in the direction of the scientific evidence that shows that medicine system is harming babies and women with unnecessary technology. Viewers are asked to support men to rise up to be the ones to address hospital and legislation to demand changes to create a standard of care based on science and compassion. The film concludes that how babies are treated in the medical machine is the foundational imprint for war as individuals, families, and as a society. The good news is there is hope that we can come together as a culture to heal, and to truly create a peaceful humanity. The solution to war appears very simple; human newborns must be born in a peaceful, compassionate, and empathetic environment in order to live in harmony with self, nature, and others.