Peggy Vincent

Baby Catcher (eBook, ePUB)

Chronicles of a Modern Midwife

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

She never tired of the miracle. Each time she knelt to "catch" another baby, beloved California mid-wife Peggy Vincent paid homage to the moment when pain bows to joy, one person becomes two, woman turns to goddess, and the world moves aside to make room for one more soul.

Trained as a nurse at Duke University in the early 1960s, Vincent begins working in the delivery room of a local hospital in the San Francisco Bay area. Even after establishing an alternative birth center at the hospital, however, she is still frustrated with her lack of autonomy. Too often she witnesses births changing from normal to high risk because of routine obstetrical interventions.

Vincent then devotes herself to creating unique birth experiences for her clients and their families. She becomes a licensed midwife, opens her own practice, and delivers nearly three thousand babies during her remarkable career.

With every birth comes an unforgettable story. Each time Vincent "catches" a wet and wriggling baby, she encounters another memorable woman busy negotiating her unique path through the labyrinth of childbirth.

Meet Catherine as she rides out her labor in a car careening down a mountain road, her husband clueless at the wheel. Megan delivers on a leaky sailboat during the storm of the decade. Susannah gives birth so quietly and effortlessly, neither husband nor midwife notice much of anything until they see a baby lying on the bed, and Sofia spends her labor trying to keep her hyper doctor-father from burning down the house.

More than just a collection of birth stories, Baby Catcher is a provocative, moving, and highly personal account of the ongoing difficulties midwives face in the United States. With vivid portraits of courage, perseverance, and love, this is a passionate call to rethink today's technological hospital births in favor of a more individualized and profound experience in which mothers and fathers take the stage in the timeless drama of birth and renewal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780743242370
• Artikelnr.: 37842903

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
PART I
~ As it was in the beginning
You Have to Lie Down
Babies, Babies, Babies
Mrs. Purdue
The Hippie Effect
PART II
~ The meditation of my heart
Painless Childbirth?
To Be or Not to Be
Only If You Can Be There
Fog
Adidas to Birkenstocks
PART III
~ The wine of astonishment
Rubber Ducky
Good News and Bad News
We Couldn't Have Done It Without Him
Huh?
Hallie's Reputation
Only What's Necessary
The Perineal Cry
PART IV
~ Not only with our lips but in our lives
Spirit Baby I
Practice What You Preach
My Little Helper
Spirit Baby II
When Mom Is a Midwife
PART V
~ Who walketh upon the wings of the wind
One More Soul
Pragmatism in Action
Sneak Attack
Uh-oh
A Friend
What Flowers Are These?
Labor's Not So Bad
Goose Abuse
Wall Art
It's Just So Interesting
Okay, Okay, Okay
Is My Mommy Happy?
PART VI
~ Devices and desires
Wrongful Life
Cut Me!
You'd Better Sit Down
PART VII
~ The measure of my days
Guardian Angel
Allah's Blessing
End of the Drought
You Can't Be Serious
I Just Forgot
Soccer Mom
Hello from Rosie
A Bitter Pill
Happy Birthday
Shift Work
Passing the Torch
~ Epilogue
The Current Situation
~ Appendices
I Pearls of Wisdom
II Home Birth Supplies
III Studies on Midwifery Safety
IV Statistics on the Economics of Midwifery
V Resources
VI Sandi's Famous Caramels