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Documentary: Catching Babies | Miriam @ Radical Doula

Despite being the only midwifery school in the country that offers a full scholarship to one woman of color each term, what I experienced when I visited was quite different than the picture painted by the documentary. When I was there (granted, for only two days) there were only one or two students of color in attendance. The rest of the midwifery students, and the majority of the staff, were white women. But race was only one factor that left me with questions about the experience of the school–I was also surprised to learn that not all the students spoke Spanish. I shadowed one student midwife who clearly was nowhere near fluent, and it caused a lot of communication problems between her and the patients she was attending to.