var items = new Array (new ImageMetaData('**APN ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY FEB. 24** Gaskin, 69, a midwife who never formally studied nursing, has helped to bring back home birth and lay midwifery from the brink of extinction in America. Ina Mae Gaskin measures the growth of the stomach of Cayla Whitehead as Gaskin teaches a class in midwifery at The Farm in Summertown, Tenn., Tuesday, June 26, 2007. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)','http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Photo_StoryLevel/080219/080219-childbirthguru-hmed-1p.jpg','4:30 p.m. ET, 2/19/08','Mark Humphrey / ASSOCIATED PRESS','Associated Press',23241723));