Is birth trauma the next feminist frontier?
A new documentary from Australian actress Zoe Naylor explores why women’s birth experiences are diminished, rather than celebrated.
The Birth Time: The Documentary team of Jerusha Sutton, Jo Hunter, Zoe Naylor and Selina Scoble.
Birth, says filmmaker Zoe Naylor, is the next big feminist issue. “We’ve tackled #MeToo, we’ve begun talking about some very complicated, tricky ideas. But we still think that birth is just something to be endured, no matter what.”
Naylor’s own experiences giving birth directly informed and influenced her film Birth Time: the Documentary; she has two children, and says after daughter Sophia’s hospital birth she was left feeling “alone, overwhelmed and unsupported” but son Beau’s arrival, at home (only 1 per cent of Australian births are homebirths), was vastly different thanks to the support of her husband and midwife.
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