Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9780743219341ISBN-10:743219341UPC:9780743219341Book Category:Family & Relationships, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Parenting, Women, Life StagesBook Topic:Infants & ToddlersSize:8.48 x 5.54 x 0.82 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SCG7M525WW
Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9780743219341ISBN-10:743219341UPC:9780743219341Book Category:Family & Relationships, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Parenting, Women, Life StagesBook Topic:Infants & ToddlersSize:8.48 x 5.54 x 0.82 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SCG7M525WW
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...
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