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Ina May Gaskin

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American midwife (*1940)

United StatesActorsBorn 1940 · age 86
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" She helped found the self-sustaining community, The Farm, with her husband Stephen Gaskin in 1971 where she markedly launched her career in midwifery.

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Filmography 6

The Business of Being Born2008
Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives2013
Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret2008
The Face of Birth2012
Freedom For Birth2012
More Business of Being Born2011

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2013National Women's Hall of Fame
2011Right Livelihood Award

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Ina May Gaskin is an American midwife who has been described as "the mother of authentic midwifery." She helped found the self-sustaining community, The Farm, with her husband Stephen Gaskin in 1971 where she markedly launched her career in midwifery. She is known for the Gaskin Maneuver, has written several books on midwifery and childbirth, and continues to educate society through lectures and conferences and spread her message of natural, old-age inspired, fearless childbirth.

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Born 1940 · age 86
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