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"Neva Bradley, a third-generation midwife, is determined to keep the details surrounding her own pregnancy--including the identity of the baby's father--hidden from her family and coworkers for as long as possible. Her mother Grace finds it impossible to let this secret rest. The more Grace prods, the tighter Neva holds to her story, and the more the lifelong differences between private, quiet Neva and open, gregarious Grace strain their relationship....
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Midwife Patience Murphy has a gift: a talent for escorting mothers through the challenges of bringing children into the world. Working in the hardscrabble conditions of Appalachia during the Depression, Patience takes the jobs that no one else wants, helping those most in need--and least likely to pay. She knows a successful midwifery practice must be built on a foundation of openness and trust--but the secrets Patience is keeping are far too intimate...
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Heart of the frontier volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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With the aid of trapper Alex Armistead, widow Grace Martindale uses her midwifery skills to help the natives in the untamed Oregon Country, but not everyone welcomes her presence, and she finds herself in more danger than she could have imagined.
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PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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In the United States, some 10% of people who wish to have children struggle with infertility. NOVA explores barriers to fertility, from the social to the biological, and the state of assisted reproductive technologies. Follow the journeys of people navigating challenges from structural inequalities and racism to falling sperm counts, egg freezing, and IVF.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Most babies arrive safely without complications, however some do have a more difficult journey into this world. At the Mater Mother’s Hospital there is an expert medical team that specialises in caring for high-risk pregnancies and some of the most delicate types of surgery. Parents from across the southern hemisphere travel here to be treated by the multi-disciplinary team which includes foetal surgeons, sonographers, neonatologists, nurses, and...
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Louise Watkins has her hands full. Her mother had been the town midwife, but after her daughter Alice died under her care, she refused to assist in a childbirth ever again. Since then Louise has assumed the work. She also takes care of Alice's six-year old, Charlotte, because the child's father was lost in World War I. But Louise's principal job is running the boardinghouse that is the family's main source of income. One day, Charlotte befriends a...
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Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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A Chinese scientist disappears after developing the first designer babies, shocking the world and the entire scientific community, but an investigation shows he may not have been alone in his experiment to create "better" human beings.
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At home in Trinity volume 3
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Bethany House
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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As midwife Martha Cade readies to pass on her role as midwife, her decision to marry Thomas Dillon when he returns, as well as her daughter's new love interest, leaves Martha searching for courage to carry on in the face of all the challenges she faces.
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2016.
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"For Quaker midwife Rose Carroll, life in Amesbury, Massachusetts, provides equal measures of joy and tribulation. She delights in attending to the needs of mothers and newborns even as she mourns the recent death of her sister. Likewise, Rose enjoys the giddy feelings that come from being courted by a handsome doctor, but a suspicious fire and two murders leave her fearing for the well-being of her loved ones. Driven by her desire for safety and...
12) Life, Unexpected
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Ouat Media
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Shot over 10 years in intimate, raw home footage by an Oscar-winning filmmaking couple, LIFE, UNEXPECTED. tells the story of bringing life into this world. Through a stillbirth, countless miscarriages, IVF, and beyond, this documentary offers an intimate look at the unforgiving and often unspoken roller coaster of infertility.
13) This Small
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Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
2017.
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Italiano
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Length of gestation: 25 weeks. This is the threshold of viability for premature children. When a baby is born before their due date, the joy of his or her parents is suspended. It is the beginning of a tormented path, made of long waits at the hospital, watching children engaged in a constant fight to survive. THIS SMALL explores the story of parents who walked this path.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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The face of birth gives us the big -picture on the importance of how, where and with whom we give birth. Through the diverse and beautiful stories of five women who choose to birth at home, it examines the issues of choice, safety, and empowerment, as well as many other academics, midwives and doctors. A 'must see' film for anyone interested in birth, The face of birth will encourage and inspire all who have been or are about to embark on the journey...
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"When life throws her one setback too many, midwife and young widow Tess Hartsong takes off for Runaway Mountain. In this small town high in the Tennessee mountains, surrounded by nature, she hopes to outrun her heartbreak and find the solace she needs to heal. But instead of peace and quiet, she encounters an enigmatic artist with a craving for solitude, a fairy-tale sprite with too many secrets, a helpless infant, a passel of curious teens, and...
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Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naive young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long...
18) Woman To Woman
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Woman to Woman is a story about natural childbirth as well as about the empowerment of women and their partners. And it is also a story about activism
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Janson Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
MOMS & MEDS: NAVIGATING PREGNANCY AND PSYCHIATRIC MEDICATION, is a documentary film that explores the options women face when they want to have children, but take medication for mental illness. The film focuses on the personal stories of the women. Other interviewees include doctors, advocates and family members who influence, and are affected by, these decisions.
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Women of Lancaster County volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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A desire to learn about her biological family leads nurse-midwife Lexie Jaeger to the heart of Pennsylvania Amish country. There she meets a mysterious lay-midwife who needs her help after an Amish client and her baby die.
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