Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives

Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives
Directed by Sara Lamm
Mary Wigmore
Produced by Sara Lamm
Mary Wigmore
Kate Roughan
Zachary Mortensen
Starring Ina May Gaskin
Music by Robin Pecknold
Edited by Kate Amend
Production
company
Ghost Robot/Reckon So Productions
Release dates
  • June 16, 2012 (2012-06-16) (Los Angeles Film Festival)[1]
  • January 16, 2013 (2013-01-16)
Running time
93 minutes
Country United States
Language English

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.

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