Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives
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Director Mary Wig, Sara Lamm Duration Language English | 7.6/10 IMDb Genre Documentary, Biography, History Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date June 16, 2012 (2012-06-16) (Los Angeles Film Festival)
January 16, 2013 (2013-01-16) Initial release January 16, 2013 (New York City) Cast Ina May Gaskin, Stephen Gaskin, Cara Gillette, Stacie Hunt Music director Robin Pecknold, Carter Little Producers Mary Wig, Sara Lamm, Zachary Mortensen, Kate Roughan Similar movies In The Womb , In the Womb: Multiples , Inside the Human Body , In The Womb: Animals , Bodysong , The Human Body | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives is a 2012 documentary film about Ina May Gaskin directed by Sara Lamm and Mary Wigmore.
Plot
The documentary shows Gaskin and others practicing home birth at a commune. Today as nearly one third of all US babies are born via C-section; the struggle is to protect their midwifery knowledge and to promote respectful, safe maternity practices.
From the backs of school buses, these birth activists rescue American midwifery from extinction and change the way a generation approaches pregnancy. With unprecedented access to the midwives' archival video collection, as well as modern footage of life at the alternative community where they live, this documentary shows childbirth the way most people have never seen it.
References
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