Director: Sara Lamm and Mary Wigmore
Run Time: 95 minutes
Documentary Feature
Language: English
Screening: Sunday Feb. 10, 2013, 3PM
Northwest Corner Building
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Q&A Élan McAllister, Executive Director of Choices in Childbirth, will join the audience for a Q&A session following the screening.
Synopsis: 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. They grew their own food, built their own houses, published their own books, and, as word of their social experiment spread, created a model of care for women and babies that changed a generation’s approach to childbirth. Today, as nearly one-third of all U.S. babies are born via C-section, they labor on, fighting to preserve their knowledge and pushing, once again, for the rebirth of birth.
