BIRTH STORY: INA MAY GASKIN AND THE FARM MIDWIVES Captures a spirited group of women who taught themselves how to deliver babies on a 1970s hippie commune, rescued modern midwifery from extinction, and changed the way a generation thought about childbirth. Today, as nearly 1/3 of all US babies are born via C-section, they labor on,…
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Middle Tennessee woman helps lead midwife movement…
SUMMERTOWN, Tenn. – A Middle Tennessee woman remains at the forefront of a movement that encourages women to give birth with the aid of midwives. Ina May Gaskin is a founding member of The Farm, a former commune in Summertown, about 90 miles from Nashville. Over the past several decades, she and her team of…
Safety, Risk, Costs and Benefits: Weighing Choices in Childbirth
Midwife Jennie Joseph is scheduled to present at the Human Rights in Childbirth Conference in the Hague, Netherlands. Midwife Ina May Gaskin will serve as the key note speaker for this event and Jennie Joseph along with Anthropologist Robbie Davis Floyd will be speaking on Panel #2. The Human Rights in Childbirth Conference covers a subject…
Midwives of Color 
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