A Reunion of All My Babies

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• Posted 01/27/11 by Brenda Parrish
  I am a modern day community midwife, with a lot more training than "Miss Mary" but with her same drive to connect with patients and their families and see what the total needs of the mother might be, not just catch the baby. We have so many underserved rural areas and modern day midwives could provide the individualized care for low risk mothers. We only need the Dept of Health to return to issuing the license that the law provides for, but they no longer will. With high cesarean rates, low risk mothers need a safe choice. Many are running from the highly medicalized birth environment the hospital offers and returning to the security and comfort of their own bedrooms for the births of their children.
• Posted 12/13/10 by Ann T. Greene
  I think I can tell where the film is going but I still feel as if the heart of the film is still missing: the work and life of Ms. Coley. We here in the US take infant and mother mortality for granted. How can you get viewers to understand what it was like to to have and deliver babies in rural Georgia in the late 1940's and 1950's? Only then might they get an sense of the extraordinary. I'm 57 and my older brother and I were delivered by a midwife in mid 1950's South Carolina. I think my my middle name (at birth) was in honor of that woman. Thanks for your work, David. ATG
• Posted 07/03/10 by Jeff Hansell
  Wonderful video. I have videotaped several births, but this is really something. There is no one like George Stoney