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Biography & Autobiography. Medical. Nonfiction. HTML:An inspiring collection of birth stories by a charming midwife. Each time she knelt to "catch" another wriggling babyâ??nearly three thousand times during her remarkable careerâ??California midwife Peggy Vincent paid homage to the moment when pain bows to joy and the world makes way for one more. With every birth, she encounters another woman-turned-goddess: Catherine rides out her labor in a car careening down a mountain road. Sofia spends hers trying to keep her hyper doctor-father from burning down the house. Susannah gives birth so quietly that neither husband nor midwife notice until there's a baby in the room. More than a collection of birth stories, however, Baby Catcher is a provocative account of the difficulties that midwives face in the United States. With vivid portraits of courage, perseverance, and love, this is an impassioned call to rethink technological hospital births in favor of more individualized and profound experiences in which mothers and fathers take center stage in the timeless drama of… (more)
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This book also highlights the constant struggle that midwives face for acceptance, recognition, and legal rights. Understand what midwives face every day, and how much support their families give so that women can have the right to give birth at home.
In the final pages Vincent included a summary with some words of wisdom, an overview of the contents of a well stocked home birth kit, a recommended reading list, as well as midwifery economics and safety studies.
I loved every page of this book and it certainly got me motivated to pursue this career path some more!
unlike how doctors think "childbirth is normal until proven otherwise"
I inhaled this book over the course of two days in April,
Of course, the author, a midwife, has reason to be biased, but after reading this the whole medical establishment anti-midwife attitude seems even more ludicrous and self-serving. And that's saying something, as I was leaning fairly heavily that way before I ever opened this particular book.
Highly recommended to all mommas and other birth junkies.
Vincent progressed from nursing through midwifery at a time