Born For This

  Directed by: Jen Gilomen Released: 2024 (educational) Year of Production: 2018 Running Time: 70 min Language: English Subtitle Options: English Closed Captions Subjects: Race Power and Privilege, Women's Studies, Women's Health                 Determined not to become another statistic of the Black maternal health crisis, Janeé Washington and her husband Josh choose the rare option of hiring an experienced midwife and doula and planning to give birth at home, away from the hospital and all of its interventions. But the baby has other plans. This is the story of the birth of one baby, with its family caught between two very different approaches to childbirth. Summary Of The Issues Portrayed In The Film By now, the failings of our nation’s maternal healthcare system and its disparate impacts on women of color are widely known,¹ but the solutions are still elusive. In part, this is because there is not one system, but two fundamentally different ones, with an extreme imbal