Nubia Martin in Birth from the Earth (2023)

Nubia Martin

Up against a broken for-profit medical system, home birth midwife and educator Nubia Martin is a visionary leader in the Birth Justice movement working tirelessly to create more opportunities and empower BIPOC mothers and families...

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Birth from the Earth

Up against a broken for-profit medical system, home birth midwife and educator Nubia Martin is a visionary leader in the Birth Justice movement working tirelessly to create more opportunities and empower BIPOC mothers and families to be able to safely give birth at home as well as supporting the midwives and birth workers who guide them along their sacred journey. We hear so many negative stories and news coverage of how Black mothers are dying, and that birth is dangerous and scary. The mothers and families who contributed to the film all had a desire to share a different perspective - one of our fore mothers and great-grandmothers who all successfully brought forth life in a beautiful way, so that we - their descendants, would be able to uplift these stories into the present day.

Throughout history, midwives have provided a safe space for mothers to give birth in the comfort of their own homes. After the slave trade, highly skilled African slaves were forced to assist with the births of not only the slaves' babies on the plantation but also the babies of their European masters. Before white-coated male doctors replaced midwives, slaves who were experienced with medicinal herbs and assisting births were forced to provide prenatal and postpartum support. Although today the percentage of women who choose to give birth naturally is very small, more and more women are connecting with their roots and recognizing how the current medical system has dis-empowered mothers by taking away their sacred right to birth on their own terms.

Nubia Martin is also the founder of Birth from the Earth, a non-profit, dedicated to making home birth safe, sacred, and accessible to those who need it the most. As a midwife and educator, Nubia has made it her mission to address maternal health disparities that negatively impact BIPOC women, mothers, babies, and their families. Her commitment to creating equity, quality, and love through her Yonkers, NY based center has offered hundreds of women a safe and much more spiritual way of bringing forth life as documented in this important film.

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