Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives

Innovative filmmakers Sara Lamm and Mary Wigmore launched the feature-length documentary film, “Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives,” at the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival on June 14, and will be screening the film until June 24. This documentary celebrates the life and work of Ina May Gaskin, a world-renown midwife, who founded and is the current director of the Farm Midwifery Center in Summertown, Tennessee. Ina May began delivering babies of friends and family, and taught herself midwifery skills from the ground up. She created a community called “The Farm,” in which she developed a natural model of care for women and their babies that changed the generation’s views of institutionalized childbirth.