available to them to make informed choices? Mainstream culture across the globe has very negative feelings towards natural birth, so those who are passionate about it have to hold fast. In his lecture on the 3rd day Michel Odent said that things are so bad all over the world, we are at the bottom of the abyss. Yet so is the urge to fight it. Odent says he has been invited to more conferences than ever before. And that there is an epidemic of birth films being made. Homebirth rates are even growing in many countries (Australia, USA inclusive) Odent spoke (as he has in our film Meet The Experts) about the long-term societal effects of current practice. He also suggested the effects are starting to be prevalent. There is a 45% home-hospital transfer rate in the UK. Generationally, (for at least 2 generations, and in some cases, 3) we have interrupted the oxytocin exchange. Have we already altered our epigenetics to compromise our ability to spontaneously labour? Odent is the pin up boy of the homebirth world, with everyone here wanting a photo with the 82 year old birth-world rock star! Of course they love Charkovsky as well but he is the grandfather of the movement -- loved more than idolised. Such a contrast to when The Face of Birth was screened at the Royal Women's Hospital (Sydney) and a female OB stated, "It wasn't necessary to have that 'French-man', he was a surgeon not an OB" ... Lets