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Nance Ackerman

Photographer

May 12, 2026

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7:07
Why did you want to tell the story of midwives in this way?
7:11
Um, well, it's sort of a, a twofold reason.
7:14
I had both my babies at home with midwives.
7:16
Um, and one w- was a...
7:20
I went into premature labor, and it was stopped, um, by myself and a midwife together.
7:25
We worked together to keep the premature labor and have the baby at term, and it wo- it worked out beautifully.
7:32
And so I just felt that midwives, the empowerment and the, um, nurturing, uh, loving experience that I had, uh, bordering on spiritual and, um, respectful-

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47:52
Yes.

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