THESE ARE MY HOURS chronicles the birth of a single child from beginning to end. This intimate documentary exploration of one woman's physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual birth experience is the first to be told from the perspective of a woman in labor. On December 6, 2016, shortly after midnight, Emily Graham is awakened by a contraction in her bed at home in Greenville, South Carolina. Labor has arrived. Emily navigates the depths of her own body over the next few hours with the assistance of her birth team: her husband Jason, her midwife Carey, and her mother Judy. You are invited to join them and bear witness to Emily's journey throughout - As the proverb goes, "When a child is born, a mother is also born." THESE ARE MY HOURS chronicles this metamorphosis, honoring womanhood's oldest ritual: childbirth.
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THESE ARE MY HOURS chronicles the birth of a single child from beginning to end. This intimate documentary exploration of one woman's physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual birth experience is the first to be told from the perspective of a woman in labor. On December 6, 2016, shortly after midnight, Emily Graham is awakened by a contraction in her bed at home in Greenville, South Carolina. Labor has arrived. Emily navigates the depths of her own body over the next few hours with the assistance of her birth team: her husband Jason, her midwife Carey, and her mother Judy. You are invited to join them and bear witness to Emily's journey throughout - As the proverb goes, "When a child is born, a mother is also born." THESE ARE MY HOURS chronicles this metamorphosis, honoring womanhood's oldest ritual: childbirth.
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