Baby Catcher by Vincent Peggy
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.
After fifteen years as a delivery room nurse, ten years as a natural childbirth teacher, and three years as the director of the East Bay's first alternative birth center, Peggy Vincent became a licensed midwife specializing in home births in 1980. She was the first entirely independent nurse midwife in the Berkeley area to be granted hospital privileges five years later. Vincent, her husband, and their teenage son live in Oakland, California. BabyCatcher.net is where you may find her online.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780743219341 |
| ISBN 10 | 0743219341 |
| Title | Baby Catcher |
| Author | Vincent Peggy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Year published | 2003-04-22 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |