At Home in Maine, part 1 from out homebirth Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 38 min 17 sec ✓ Published: 16-Feb-2009
Description: This film presents an overview of Maine's contemporary homebirth and midwifery culture, making visible some of the people, practices, philosophies and politics that constitute the culture.nnPolitics is an important emphasis in this piece; in 2007, a group of Maine's Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) pursued a bill for title licensure.CPMs are the professionals trained in out-of-hospital births; in Maine,CPMs are the midwives that mainly attend homebirths.nnThe film documents the early s