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All My Babies was written produced and directed by documentary filmmaker, George C. Stoney, and is one of his earliest and most widely recognized.Stoney was interested in the subject as a child watching the midwives go about their work in odd hours and later as a Southern field representative who gave midwives lifts and learning more about their work.
In the 1910s and 1920s, S. Josephine Baker, director of the New York City Bureau of Child Hygiene, advocated to keep midwives because many immigrants and African-Americans whom midwives have traditionally served could not afford the care of physicians. As such, the solution of the “midwife problem” was to train, license, and regulate them. [11]
Midwives in the United States. Midwives in the United States assist childbearing women during pregnancy, labor and birth, and the postpartum period. Some midwives also provide primary care for women including well-woman exams, health promotion, and disease prevention, family planning options, and care for common gynecological concerns.
Allan Lichtman (brother) Ronnie Sue Lichtman (born February 10, 1950) is a midwife, [1][2] educator, writer and advocate for women's health. She has published widely for both lay and professional audiences. [3] The Chair of the Midwifery Education Program at The State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center [4] in New York City ...
Margaret Charles Smith. Margaret Charles Smith (September 12, 1906–November 12, 2004) was an African-American midwife, who became known for her extraordinary skill over a long career, spanning over thirty years. [1] Despite working primarily in rural areas with women who were often in poor health, she lost very few of the more than 3000 ...
Carolyn Conant Van Blarcom (June 12, 1879 – March 20, 1960) was an American nurse and midwife reformer. [1] [2] In 1913, she became the first American nurse to become a licensed midwife. She made pioneering contributions in preventing childhood blindness. [3] Van Blarcom also played instrumental role in establishing a school for midwives, and ...
Profession. lay midwife. Mary Francis Hill Coley (August 15, 1900 – March 8, 1966) was an American lay midwife who ran a successful business providing a range of birth services and who starred in a critically acclaimed documentary film used to train midwives and doctors. Her competence projected an image of black midwives as the face of an ...
First African American woman to complete nurse's training in the U.S. Mary Eliza Mahoney (May 7, 1845 – January 4, 1926) was the first African-American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States. In 1879, Mahoney was the first African American to graduate from an American school of nursing. [1][2]