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The 45-year-old was delivered by homebirth at 295 West Las Flores Drive, where he lived with his mother until this week.

What started as a blissful homebirth turned into an emergency run to the hospital where an epidural, heart monitors and Pitocin made possible what would have been — in long-ago days — pure tragedy.

In the film, which comes to Netflix on Thursday, Kirby plays a woman grappling with the loss of her first child during a homebirth.

Some hospitals and midwife groups, such as Brigham and Women’s in Boston and Brooklyn Homebirth Midwifery in New York, have reported no notable change in numbers of patients expecting in December and January, while Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor has seen about a 10 percent decrease.

The move follows fears resuming the homebirth service would put midwives at extra risk of catching Covid-19.