In one day, Ontario midwife Manavi Handa saw three patients who will have to pay thousands of dollars to be able to schedule a C-section beginning on Sunday.
Pieces Of A Woman: Midwives on the accuracy of the home birth scene What the Netflix movie starring Vanessa Kirby gets right and wrong in its portrayal of home birth and parental grief by Kevin Ritchie, Radheyan Simonpillai on February 5th, 2021 at 10:30 PM 1 of 1 2 of 1
During the pandemic, midwife associations in Canada have reported an uptick in interest in home births among parents who want to avoid the hospital system.
Some of these parents-to-be may also be sitting at home watching Netflix and come across Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó’s
Pieces Of A Woman, about a Boston couple (Vanessa Kirby and Shia LaBeouf) grieving a childbirth-related loss. The movie opens with a 30-minute home birth scene that sets up its story.