American Experience Sponsors: A Midwife's Tale (1:51)
Credits and Opening: A Midwife's Tale. (2:18)
Documents, Sources & Clues (2:21)
Martha Ballard's Diary in Context (2:09)
People in Martha Ballard's World (1:39)
Creating Stories from Martha Ballard's Diary (2:16)
Following an Epidemic (2:54)
Martha Ballard Relives Her Own Losses (5:36)
Descriptions of Daily Life in Martha Ballard's Diary (4:21)
The Ballards Establish a Home in Maine (3:28)
Martha Ballard's Career (3:03)
Hidden Stories in the Diary (4:22)
Courtship in Post Revolutionary America (6:33)
Sadness and Joy in Midwifery (5:40)
Martha's 600th Birth (4:08)
Turn of the Century (3:24)
Family Authority Shifts (1:57)
Ephraim Ballard Jailed (2:36)
Threatened With the Loss of HOme (4:18)
Daughter-In-Law Takes Over (5:05)
Ballards Reclaim Their Home (2:34)
"What Else I have Endured, I Wish Not to Write" (3:53)
Questions for Martha Ballard (2:34)
Credits: A Midwife's Tale (4:40)
