Bouleversée par la mort d'une jeune fille qu'elle aidait à accoucher, Anna tente de retrouver la famille du nouveau-né en s'aidant du journal intime de la disparue, écrit en russe. En remontant la piste de l'ouvrage qu'elle tente de faire décrypter, la sage-femme rencontre Semyon. Elle ignore que ce paisible propriétaire du luxueux restaurant Trans-Siberian est en fait un redoutable chef de gang et que le document qu'elle possède va lui attirer de sérieux problèmes...Pour Nikolai, chauffeur et homme de main de la toute-puissante famille criminelle de l'Est, c'est le début d'une remise en cause. Entre Semyon et son fils Kirill, prêts à tout pour récupérer le journal, et l'innocente Anna, sa loyauté va être mise à rude épreuve. Autour d'un document qui se révèle de plus en plus explosif, plusieurs vies sont en jeu, dont la sienne, alors que se déchaînent les meurtres et les trahisons dans la famille comme dans la ville...
Vivant à Boston, Martha et Sean Carson s’apprêtent à devenir parents. Mais la vie du couple est bouleversée lorsque la jeune femme accouche chez elle et perd son bébé, malgré l’assistance d’une sage-femme, bientôt poursuivie pour acte de négligence. Martha doit alors apprendre à faire son deuil, tout en subissant une mère intrusive et un mari de plus en plus irritable. Mais il lui faut aussi assister au procès de la sage-femme, dont la réputation est désormais détruite. Pieces of a Woman est une chronique intimiste et déchirante de la vie d’un couple, et le portrait bouleversant d’une femme qui doit apprendre à faire son travail de deuil.
Helena has worked as a kind of midwife on the eve of the Lapland War. She wants to leave everything behind, and a suitable opportunity arises when she falls in love with a German-Finnish officer Johannes, who is leaving to German-led Titovka prison camp in the Soviet Union. Helena enlists into the camp as a nurse, where she experiences the brutality of war.
En 1810, Gesa, très résolue, veut être plus qu'une simple sage-femme, Elle veut étudier la médecine pour mieux aider ses patientes enceintes. Elle se rend donc à Vienne, bien décidée à intégrer la faculté de médecine. Elle parvient à impressionner le sévère professeur Gottschalk, qui l'autorise à assister aux cours. Mais, à cette époque, être la seule femme étudiant la médecine n'est pas chose aisée...
The rivalry between a professional doctor and a midwife in a small Greek village.
Lauren and Anthony hire a new midwife after their last one mysteriously vanishes, but things may not be as they seem.
Jane Morgan gives birth to her baby at the hospital. When she wakes up the next morning, the hospital tells her, that her son died at birth. However from ultrasound reading she had before, she knew she was having a girl. Now the hospital is stone-walling her, saying she is just in denial, due to her loss. Now she is trying to fight the system, to find evidence of the apparent mistake by the hospital. Only it wasn't the hospital's mistake. Nurse Rita Donohue is the one who made the switch. She faked a pregnancy to hang on to her roving boyfriend. But she grabbed the wrong baby, her boyfriend wants a son, so now she's faking a second pregnancy, and making plans to get another baby.
Marthe is a girl with a special gift: she can cure illnesses. But the time she lives in is marked by superstition and godliness. When Marthe can not help the burgrave's wife from her village, the girl has to flee. Your path crosses that of Ritter Christian, who moves eastward into the Mark Meissen with a group of Frankish settlers. In the Middle Ages an unimaginably long and arduous way. Christian has a hard time avoiding the fascination of Marthe, but their diverse backgrounds make a relationship impossible and the settlers are afraid of the weird girl.
A melodrama about a 19th-century ballet dancer who makes an unfortunate career move by marrying a taciturn Cornish farmer. She soon longs for the bright lights of the big city and for the arms of her artist lover. Unfortunately, her husband is all too aware of this.
An informational documentary that invites you to explore another side of pregnancy and childbirth which is not often shown in the mainstream media. In this documentary we take a look at the Midwifery Model of Care, show and tell what a birth center is and what one can expect with an out of hospital birth experience. We answer the most common questions and address the concerns most people have about out of hospital births. We also discuss C-section, VBAC, ICAN, Interventions, the importance of a proper diet during pregnancy and more. We hear three women share their personal birth stories; In and out of hospital experiences. This documentary is full of good information and is a must see for all women of childbearing age interested in pregnancy and childbirth, regardless of where they choose to give birth.
Après avoir donné naissance à son premier enfant à 20 ans, Mona Achache a eu l'idée de réaliser un film sur l'accouchement. Elle a filmé le travail des sages-femmes pour réaliser ce documentaire qui est devenu une référence dans plus de 500 maternités et cabinets de sages-femmes privées en France lors des séances de préparation à la naissance.
Die Heldin in „Die Hebamme – Auf Leben und Tod“ ist eine Reisende zwischen den Welten und den Zeiten. Zwischen den Autoritäten anno 1813, der Kirche und der Wissenschaft, bleibt Rosa Koelbl eine Fremde. Die Zeit ist noch nicht reif für die Werte, die diese Frau verkörpert. (Quelle: http://www.tittelbach.tv/programm/fernsehfilm/artikel-1422.html)
In a remote fishing island in the 50's, Pepito grows up learning the trade of his mother, Rosa, the only midwife capable of delivering the newborn babies of their community. At first, the young son doesn't mind the unusual arrangement, but as he grows older, he begins to resist the role traditionally meant only for women. In time, Pepito's coming of age intersects with the lives of the other islanders, whose beliefs and struggles become critical impetus to his maturity.
Ferry owner Benjamin has a regular passenger, Chedeng, who is studying to become a midwife. Chedeng has a friend and neighbour, Maria, and without either of them knowing about it they both have a relationship with Benjamin. When Mary finds out she’s pregnant, things get difficult.
The experienced and freelance midwife Emma is in court: Has she over-estimated her abilities and thus jeopardized the health and life of a child?
Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and The Farm Midwives captures a spirited group of women who taught themselves how to deliver babies on a 1970s hippie commune. Today as nearly one third of all US babies are born via C-section, they fight to protect their knowledge and to promote respectful, safe maternity practices all over the globe. From the backs of their technicolor school buses, these pioneers rescued American midwifery from extinction, changed the way a generation approached pregnancy, and filmed nearly everything they did. With unprecedented access to the midwives' archival video collection, as well as modern day footage of life at the alternative intentional community where they live, this documentary shows childbirth the way most people have never seen it--unadorned, unabashed, and awe-inspiring.
A portrait that tells us about destiny, through the life of Lucía, the last midwife on the plateau of Jala, municipality of Nayarit.
À 27 ans, Louis Maltais débute sa formation pour devenir le premier homme au Québec à exercer le métier de sage-femme. Sur une période de quatre ans, nous accompagnons Louis dans un véritable parcours initiatique.