Baby Catcher (Chronicles of a Modern Midwife)
de Peggy Vincent
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- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Ver descripción
- ISBN 10
- 0743219341
- ISBN 13
- 9780743219341
- Librería
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Gilbertsville, Pennsylvania, United States
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Sobre este artículo
An inspiring collection of birth stories by a charming midwife.
Each time she knelt to "catch" another wriggling baby—nearly three thousand times during her remarkable career—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 birth.
Review
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.
About the Author
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. Visit her online at BabyCatcher.net.
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- Librería
- Janson Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- M0006010000077
- Título
- Baby Catcher (Chronicles of a Modern Midwife)
- Autor
- Peggy Vincent
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Very good
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0743219341
- ISBN 13
- 9780743219341
- Editorial
- Scribner; unknown edition (April 1, 2003)
- Lugar de publicación
- Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.s.a.
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- April 1, 2003
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