Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife
Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife Books
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Each time she knelt to “catch” another wriggling baby — near 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 spouse nor midwife notice until there’s a baby in the room.
More than a collection of birth tales, but, Baby Catcher is a provocative account of the difficulties that midwives face in the United States. With vivid portraits of courage, perseverance, and like, this is an impassioned call to rethink technological sickbay births in act of kindness of more individualized and profound experiences in which mothers and fathers take focal top stage in the timeless drama of birth.Amazon.com Review
In a joyous, often hilarious ode to the Birkenstock-scuffling, tackle box-toting mobile midwives who flourished in the 1980s, Peggy Vincent chronicles her abundant life as a professional Baby Catcher. The wild ride starts during her nurse training years in the 1960s, when laboring women were expected to lie down, shut up, and submit to whatever drugs and procedures the doctor ordered. A rebellious patient who chants and dances through her contractions–and the hell that ensues when seasoned sickbay staffers intrude–lights a permanent fire below Vincent. Her resolve to serve each laboring woman with compassion and respect carries her from obstetrics nurse to head of an alternative birth focal top within Alta Bates Sickbay in Berkeley, California, and eventually into her own private do as a licensed midwife. Like the most courageous home births, this collection of delivery experiences refuses anesthesia: bounty of bellowing, sweating, bleeding, and pushing accompany near all of the more than 40 tales. Tough confrontations with stubborn physicians, panicky labor partners, and one particularly nasty calico cat are dabbed with as many keen insights as Vincent’s quieter, more heart-rending newborn encounters. Baby Catcher is an inspirational literary gift apposite for expectant mothers, fellow baby catchers, and anyone who likes reading about nature’s greatest magical feat. –Liane Thomas
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Even though the reviews for this book weren’t fantastic, I resolute to give it a go. At first the author seemed genuine, but as I read on I felt the author was more into self glorification than their craft of being a midwife.
I wish I would have borrowed this book from the library instead of having bought it in hardback.
Rating: 1 / 5
I looked forward to reading this book after so many excellent reviews. But.. I’m not sure, if this book is meant for pregnant women, frequently, I judge, for midwives, cause it describes tale of midwifery in US. Besides, it contains some not pleased ending tales, which sounded really scary to me (dead babies, severe brain hurt babies..) I despise reading this stuff even as I’m pregnant. I wasn’t frightened so much until I read this book. I don’t urge it for preggies!!
Rating: 1 / 5
I read the reviews of this book and was keenly awaiting it’s arrival. I’m thought of studying to become a midwife, and I plotting this book would give me some insight into what I have in store for me. Even as I agree that Peggy is a fascinating storyteller, I can’t help but feel that she has turned out a highly sensationalized view of midwifery, ignoring every fixed birth, and focusing only on the birth on a winding mountain road in the back seat of a speeding car kind of thing, which is not just so the realistic insider’s look I was hoping for. Anyhow, that is not even my huge problem with book. I would still reckon it was a fantastic read, except for the smearing of expletives scattered throughout what would otherwise be gorgeous tales. With every page I continue to read, they get worse and worse. I like a excellent clean read, meaning I may possibly read it to my kids or mother without blushing. If that’s what your into, avoid this book!! I don’t appreciate vulgarity, and I don’t reckon it needed a place in this book. It also makes Peggy seem much less intelligent. For goodness sakes, WHY IS IT SO HARD TO FIND A GOOD BOOK? I can’t end the book, which is really sad. It had such fantastic potential.
Rating: 1 / 5
I found this book incredibly amusing and may possibly place myself in every situation. I was disappointed at the profanity. I read the whole book with a tube of white-out close by. I would not urge this book to anyone without handing them my edited copy.
Rating: 3 / 5
Having six children myself, I went through a variety of experiences even as carrying and delivering them–but NO natural childbirth for me! I suppose I was a coward, but I desired all the help I may possibly get during that hard administer. Luckily, God contracted me the kind of hips made for rather simple deliveries–if there is such a thing. Sure, it hurt bounty, but the administer wasn’t as lengthy as it was for many of my friends.
I now have nine grandchildren and two “greats,” but I still delight in swapping a excellent ancient “child-birth” tale with other Moms and Grandmoms from time to time. If we get carried away–comparing birth-weights of our small bundles of joy–everyone just smiles and laughs by the side of with us. (My smallest was 7 pounds, 10 ounces, the largest was 10 lbs., 2. Ouch!)
I admire women who opt for natural childbirth and appreciate Peggy Vincent–not only for writing this informative book, but also for sharing some of her life-tale.
A different kind of read, to be sure, but I loved it. Check it out!
Rating: 5 / 5