♪ ♪ Over in Tahiti, a friend of mine also had to fight to get the birth she wanted.

♪ ♪ RAVA: I wanted to give birth in nature.

I would sit on the beach and think about my pregnancy and talk about it with Lolo.

And, it all developed organically from there.

I asked friends here in Tahiti if anybody had birthed at home or in water, or in the ocean, or anywhere else but the hospital, and I couldn't find anybody.

MARIANNE: We were not supposed to speak Tahitian when I grew up, we were not supposed to do so many things, but now, we're trying to get things back.

Our culture back and everything back, and Rava, who was born in the United States in the hospital, decided by herself that she's going the way our ancestors did.

That's what she told me.

RAVA: I think that there are midwives that will birth a child at home in France, but that there aren't any in Tahiti.

So, that's when I started asking people in Hawaii.

I had reached out to this close friend of mine and she spoke about me to Jaymie, and then Jaymie and I communicated via email.

And then, I went to Hawaii to go meet her and I, was surprised that she actually thought, I don't know that she actually thought I could birth the way I wanted to birth.

And that maybe it was actually going to happen.

(indistinct chatter).

JAYMIE: So Rava was already pregnant when we met and we talked about what she wanted and, and I told her how I could serve her but that I didn't live there.

So it was, you know, how are we going to do prenatal care?

So I trained her.

At how to listen to her baby, uh, how to take pulses.

I sent her home with urine sticks and we met once a month, online.

And, we did little visits, and we talked about too that prenatal care is not your visit with your midwife or your doctor.

You do your prenatal care.

You make sure you stay healthy.