A "VBAC" pioneer: Polly’s Story
Channel: Back Lane Studios
Date: 2018-02-20

It took the Caesarian birth of her first child for Polly Priebe to realize that the personal was political.  After that experience, she made it her mission that her next child would be born by natural birth. She engaged with the midwifery movement in Toronto and researched what was happening elsewhere, such as the work by Ina May Gaskin, author of Spiritual Midwifery. She assembled a team: a doctor sympathetic to her goals and midwife Mary Sharpe, the best in Canada. Was she successful in becoming one of the first women in Toronto to have a Vaginal Birth After Caesarian or VBAC? Watch the video to find out. 
Toronto-based Back Lane Studios’ SilverSilver Shorts Doc Project is funded in part by the federal government’s  New Horizons for Seniors Program.  The project aims to encourage seniors to tell their stories on video. 

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