Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife - Brossura

Vincent, Peggy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0743219341 ISBN 13: 9780743219341

Casa editrice: Scribner, 2003

Riassunto

A former nurse chronicles her journey into midwifery, from her dissatisfaction with formulaic delivery room procedures in the 1960s to her eventual career as a "baby catcher," and chronicles her diverse birth experiences, the women she has encountered along the way, and role of midwifery in the United States. Reprint.

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Recensione:

Anne Lamott author of Operating Instructions Baby Catcher is a celebration of life, a book of beautiful and passionate stories of birth -- and the mothers, fathers, families, and friends who assisted -- told by a midwife devoted to more tender and natural childbirth. This is an inspiring, important book.

Publishers Weekly A page-turner.

L'autore:

Peggy Vincent became a licensed midwife specializing in home births in 1980, after fifteen years as a delivery room nurse, ten years as a natural childbirth teacher, and three years as the director of the first alternative birth center in the East Bay. Five years later, she became the first completely independent nurse midwife to be granted hospital privileges in the Berkeley area. Vincent lives in Oakland, California, with her husband and teenage son. Her Web site is www.babycatcher.net

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• Editore: Scribner
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0743219341
• ISBN 13: 9780743219341
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336