Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and The Farm Midwives (2012)
95 min
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. Today as nearly one third of all US babies are born via C-section, they fight to protect their knowledge and to promote respectful, safe maternity practices all over the globe. From the backs of their technicolor school buses, these pioneers rescued American midwifery from extinction, changed the way a generation approached pregnancy, and filmed nearly everything they did. With unprecedented access to the midwives' archival video collection, as well as modern day footage of life at the alternative intentional community where they live, this documentary shows childbirth the way most people have never seen it--unadorned, unabashed, and awe-inspiring.
- Release date
- January 18, 2013
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Carter Little
Trailer
Cast
- Ina May Gaskin as Self
- Rebecca Brown as Self
- Heather Chan as Self
- Gerrie Sue Chappell as Self
- Barbara Cheney as Self
- Kristina Kennedy Davis as Self
- Deborah Devoursney as Self
- Mary Fjerstad as Self
- Eva Gaskin as Self
- Steven Gaskin as Self
Crew
- Sara Lamm · Director
- Mary Wigmore · Director
- Sara Lamm · Producer
- Zachary Mortensen · Producer
- Kate Roughan · Producer
- Mary Wigmore · Producer
- Carter Little · Composer
- Mary Wigmore · Cinematographer
- Kate Amend · Editor