A Father's Birth Story:: A Spiritual Journey Off the Grid and Beyond

This story (five pages) is a first-time father's account of his son's birth at the Farm, in 1979, the oldest and largest hippie collective in the country.

The Farm and the Farm Midwives, were largely responsible for the resurgence of midwifery in recent decades. In the new model, birth is understood primarily as a spiritual event rather than a medical one. Dad's observations.