Labor of Love: A Midwife's Memoir
7 best books like Labor of Love: A Midwife's Memoir (Cara Muhlhahn): Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Spiritual Midwifery, Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife, Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care, Birthing from Within: An Extra-Ordinary Guide to Childbirth Preparation, A Midwife's Story, Listen to Me Good: The Story of an Alabama Midwife (Women & Health C&S Perspective)
Meet Dexter Morgan, a polite wolf in sheep's clothing. He's handsome and charming, but something in his past has made him abide by a different set of rules. He's a serial killer whose one golden rule makes him immensely likeable: he only kills bad people. And his job as a blood splatter expert for the Miami...
Author | Ina May Gaskin |
ISBN | 1570671044 |
Here is the 4th edition of the classic book on home birth that introduced a whole generation of women to the concept of natural childbirth. Back again are even more amazing birthing tales, including those from women who were babies in earlier editions and stories about Old Order Amish women attended...
Author | Peggy Vincent |
ISBN | 0743219341 |
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...
Author | Jennifer Block |
ISBN | 0738210730 |
In the United States, more than half the women who give birth are given drugs to induce or speed up labor; for nearly a third of mothers, childbirth is major surgery - the cesarean section. For women who want an alternative, choice is often unavailable: Midwives are sometimes inaccessible; in eleven...
Birthing from Within: An Extra-Ordinary Guide to Childbirth Preparation
Author | Pam England |
ISBN | 0965987302 |
Here is a holistic approach to childbirth that examines this profound rite-of-passage not as a medical event but as an act of self-discovery. Exercises and activities such as journal writing, meditation, and painting will help mothers analyze their thoughts and face their fears during pregnancy....
Author | Sheryl Feldman |
ISBN | 1905177046 |
A gripping first-hand account of midwife Penny Armstrong’s journey from student midwife in Glasgow to running her own practice among the Amish in rural Pennsylvania, A Midwife’s Story never fails to enlighten, inform and surprise.
Going far beyond mere biography, Armstrong’s journey...
Author | Margaret Charles Smith |
ISBN | 0814207014 |
Margaret Charles Smith, a ninety-one-year-old Alabama midwife, has thousands of birthing stories to tell. Sifting through nearly five decades of providing care for women in rural Greene County, she relates the tales that capture the life-and-death struggle of the birthing experience and the traditions,...