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Various Community Speakers — storytellers of frontier midwifery, sharing firsthand anecdotes from home births and Indigenous remedies. Jo Lutney — an experienced nurse-midwife who worked among northern Indigenous communities. They explore traditional midwifery practices, communal support during labour, tactile newborn care, herbal emergency treatments, and the social bonds formed around birth.

A historical tour of how anesthesia and hospital routines transformed childbirth and midwifery. Stories about twilight sleep, narcotic experiments, and traumatic birth memories surface. Rising interventions like routine episiotomy and cesareans and their unintended harms are examined. Accounts show how hospitals reshaped homes, silenced shared knowledge, and standardized intimate practices.

Various archival voices and commentators, including nurses, mothers, and historical observers, explore shifting childrearing practices. They recount baby-welfare campaigns, clinic routines, the decline and rescue of breastfeeding, hospital separation after birth, and how pediatric authority reshaped parenting. Short, evocative readings trace the cultural and medical forces that remade infancy care.