Hands of a Midwife: How Inuit women brought birth home
Hands of a Midwife: How Inuit women brought birth home

Hands of a Midwife: How Inuit women brought birth home

Maria Nsue

29 min
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For decades, Inuit women in northern Quebec had to travel south to give birth, far from family and support. That started to change in 1986 when the North’s first midwifery clinic opened in Puvirnituq. Duncan McCue takes us into that maternity centre with his documentary, Hands of a Midwife.

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