Kavulla, Graciela; Kavulla, Timothy A (wife/husband). Discovery Green Park, 2009-11-20T10:30:00

File — Interview-ID: MBY005979

Interview Description

Graciela Kavullo (68) talks with husband Timothy Kavulla (65) about her grandmother Adelida Garza Reyes and her work as a midwife in Mexico.

Facilitator Subject Log

01:00 Graciela talks about having trouble knowing how to pronounce her grandmother's name when she was a younger child. She remembers always calling her "Abuelita "[grandmother] Ipa.

05:00 Graciela talks about how her grandmother got into midwifery in Mexico after she had her tenth child. Her grandmother was illiterate and Graciela explains the process in which she learned how to be a midwife.

09:50 Graciela describes what it was like when her grandmother "Ipa "would go and deliver babies. She remembers the doctors would arrive and ask her grandmother to go with them to the patient's home.

24:50 Graciela describes what her grandmother looked like.

30:00 Graciela talks about what she's learned from her grandmother. She talks about when her grandmother passed away in the 1960's and recalls how her family felt.