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Dec 31, 2014
The Birth House by Ami McKay is the story of Dora Rare. Growing up in Scots Bay, Nova Scotia Dora the first daughter of five generations of Rare families finds herself captivated by Miss Babineau, the town mid-wife whom has exceptional powers of healing and the understanding of childbirth. Dora soon becomes her apprentice for as Miss Babineau ages even more she knows one day she will no longer be able to help the women. When a doctor comes to town with promises of a new birthing center with modern medical advances it looks as though tradition and experience through midwifery might just disappear. Through infertility, difficult labors, breech births, unwanted pregnancies and even unfulfilling sex lives the town becomes divided by what is best for the women of Scots Bay. As Dora Rare struggles to figure out who she is and what she really wants she creates a stitched up family of women that reminds her of the old ways; the best parts of tradition and the struggles that unite women to have control over their own bodies.