Since 1987, Judith Elaine Halek, director of Birth Balance, has played an increasingly vital role in the dissemination of "alternative" birthing information and practices throughout the United States and abroad. She has attended and documented through video and photographs, numerous water birth conferences, underwater births in Manhattan homes, the first underwater breech birth in a hospital in the United States and the first water birth in a prominent New York City hospital..

Accomplished birth photographer, certified childbirth educator, labor support doula, hypnotherapist and birth counselor as well as a specialist in pre/postnatal fitness and massage, Judith has served as a labor support doula, emphasizing water labor and water birth. She also has been instrumental in paving the way for the first tubs to be offered in birth centers and hospitals in the greater New York area. A former member of the Board of Directors for the Manhattan chapter of the Childbirth Education Association, Judith spoke and volunteered at the local ICAN meetings.

With a burgeoning archive of labor and birth documentation across all media (print, still photography, audio, video), Judith is considered the resource center for water labor and water birth on the East Coast. She has had clients and requests for water labor and water birth information from almost every developed country in the world. Since 1987, Judith has attended more than 900 births in homes, hospitals and birth centers and helped over 1,500 couples in welcoming their children into the world.

Judith seized the opportunity when notorious artist, Christos, displayed the memorable saffron "Gates" in New York Cities, Central Park, in February, 2005 by photographing six pregnant women.

Judith was the official Congress photographer for the 5th International Water Birth Conference, in Chicago, Illinois, April 22-25, 2004. Judith will be featuring birth photographs in the, 2005, 5th edition of "Our Bodies, Our Selves." Birth Balance photographs, were featured in the oldest, (1918) Birth Organization in the United States, Maternity Center Association's, 2003 Annual Report which came out in 2004. In the Autumn of 2003, Maternity Center Association sponsored the “Listening to Mother's Forum,” the First National U.S. Survey of Women's Childbearing Experiences. Birth Balance closed the Forum with an inspirational birth slide presentation. The September 1, 2003, Craine's New York Business magazine featured Judith Halek's work in a feature, front page story, "Doin What Comes Naturally."

Super model, Elle MacPherson, actress, Kate Winslett, talk show host, Ricki Lake, Tony award winning actress, soap opera diva, Tonya Pinkins, former CNN, Latino Spokes woman for NPR Radio, Maria Hinojosa, Samantha Bee and Jason Jones of Comedy Central, are just a few of Judith Halek's clients.

An accomplished speaker and writer, she was instrumental in getting 20/20 to produce two investigative reports on water birth and has appeared on America's Talking, "Alive and Wellness." Judith spoke on a Women's Health Panel, April 19, 1998 at the Natural Health and Fitness Expo in New York City.

In Since 1987, Judith Elaine Halek, director of Birth Balance, has played an increasingly vital role in the dissemination of "alternative" birthing information and practices throughout the United States and abroad. She has attended and documented through video and photographs, numerous water birth conferences, underwater births in Manhattan homes, the first underwater breech birth in a hospital in the United States and the first water birth in a prominent New York City hospital.

Judith was also featured in, "Gig, Americans Talk About Their Jobs At The Turn Of The Millennium." She was quoted by Susan Faludi, of The Village Voice, (NYC) as, "The most joyous worker in the book. One of the few who seem to wear their work like a natural skin. She alone of all the chroniclers in Gig experiences her calling as connected with the life force."
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