Not A Mama Yet

Episode 12 feels like a particularly special episode.  I had the pleasure of interviewing Pamela Hunt.  If you have heard of the book Spiritual Midwifery or The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee, you may have heard of her.   In the 1970s, Pamela was part of a caravan of eighty school buses that went across the United States led by Stephen Gaskin.   Stephen was a teacher in San Francisco when his writing class evolved into a discussion group that grew to have 1500 students in attendance each week.  A lot of the hippies in attendance made up the caravan and their mission was to save the world!  As women became pregnant and started to give birth during their trip, Pamela and a group of a few other women including Ina May Gaskin, Stephen’s wife, fell into the role of the midwives assisting in the deliveries.  Over time and with the help of doctors across the U.S. who donated their time and resources to train them, Pamela, Ina May and the others became well-adept in handlin