I am a Doula, and I say, Yeah for Midwives! We need more of you in the South!! North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, there are so many rural areas to cover...Great Job!
Hi Jill! Hi Andrea! I love all my midwives! Bea watched this video with me and said "That's Jill, she squishes mom's belly. She's not a midwife, she's Jill!"
@dkamiller1 jill is jill! and the best..one of the "mother" midwives of maine--in practice for over 30 years! yay maine midwives (from the maine filmmaker working on IAAM)!
thanks for all the love! don't forget to LIKE I am a Midwife on Facebook and FOLLOW IAAM on Twitter. See the links in the description above (can't post here).
Hi NMWnate, you are absolutely right! Though midwifery has historically been a profession OF women SERVING women, I stand corrected for not having the appropriate post-modern awareness to acknowledge our male colleagues. We welcome and honor each courageous soul that chooses to be a midwife. It is a tough but wondeful career path and I am happy you have taken the journey, side-by-side. Blessings, geradine
I am a Midwife includes an excerpt from "I Love Being a Midwife," adapted by visionary and activist, Dr. Byllye Avery, founder of the Black Women's Health Imperative and a Midwife, and presented it as gift to the Black Midwives and Healers of International Center for Traditional Childbearing. ICTC members have taught the song to MANA and other birth worker organizations, and the song has spread far and wide across the midwifery and birthing communities
Will MANA *finally* release its perinatal mortality rate (PNMR) in this film? If home birth via midwife is safe, MANA should prove it with the data they have been collecting on thousands of home births. Until then, we can only assume that midwifery and delivering at home is NOT safe. In the meantime, the statistics that come out of Colorado, where the law requires the state to collect information from midwives, show that the PNMR is sky high for lay midwifery.
Congratulations! A campaign whose time has come.
Amazing! I am studying to become a midwife in rural Mississippi. This kind of PR is so needed. Thank you!
midwives are such a huge inspiration!
I am a student midwife! Shared on FB :-)
midwives rock!
Wonderful. Thank you. I am a student midwife.
"I am a Midwife" in NZ, love this! Save the Midwife!
I am a Doula, and I say, Yeah for Midwives! We need more of you in the South!! North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, there are so many rural areas to cover...Great Job!
Oh my goodness--this is more exciting than I imagined. Aren't midwives cool?!!
Hi Jill! Hi Andrea! I love all my midwives! Bea watched this video with me and said "That's Jill, she squishes mom's belly. She's not a midwife, she's Jill!"
Proud im a midwife 😇
@dkamiller1 jill is jill! and the best..one of the "mother" midwives of maine--in practice for over 30 years! yay maine midwives (from the maine filmmaker working on IAAM)!
thanks for all the love! don't forget to LIKE I am a Midwife on Facebook and FOLLOW IAAM on Twitter. See the links in the description above (can't post here).
You Rock! Go and change the world.. one birth at a time. Yeah!
Hi NMWnate, you are absolutely right! Though midwifery has historically been a profession OF women SERVING women, I stand corrected for not having the appropriate post-modern awareness to acknowledge our male colleagues. We welcome and honor each courageous soul that chooses to be a midwife. It is a tough but wondeful career path and I am happy you have taken the journey, side-by-side. Blessings, geradine
I am a Midwife includes an excerpt from "I Love Being a Midwife," adapted by visionary and activist, Dr. Byllye Avery, founder of the Black Women's Health Imperative and a Midwife, and presented it as gift to the Black Midwives and Healers of International Center for Traditional Childbearing. ICTC members have taught the song to MANA and other birth worker organizations, and the song has spread far and wide across the midwifery and birthing communities
This is so awesome! You rock ladies!
@hiimlyss thank you!
congratulations! you are courageous! all the best to you!!!!
good point
LOVE it!
very nice! Love to be a midwife!
Hello, I want a midwife, I would like you to help me find one. I arrived in Canada in 8 months of pregnancy.
Nile Nash, I love you!
Lol. My mom is a midwife. Awesome sauce.
Will MANA *finally* release its perinatal mortality rate (PNMR) in this film? If home birth via midwife is safe, MANA should prove it with the data they have been collecting on thousands of home births. Until then, we can only assume that midwifery and delivering at home is NOT safe. In the meantime, the statistics that come out of Colorado, where the law requires the state to collect information from midwives, show that the PNMR is sky high for lay midwifery.