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Author Vincent, Peggy, 1942-

Title Baby catcher : chronicles of a modern midwife / Peggy Vincent
Published New York : Scribner, 2002

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 MELB  618.20233 Vin/Bcc  AVAILABLE
Description 336 pages ; 25 cm
Series The Canadian social history series
Canadian social history series.
Contents Machine derived contents note: 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
Summary In this engaging account of her career as a midwife, Vincent describes the hilarious, sometimes frightening, events surrounding the appearance of a new human being
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-331)
Subject Vincent, Peggy, 1942-
Toronto Hospital for the Insane -- History.
Midwives.
Midwives -- Anecdotes.
Mentally ill -- Institutional care -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History.
Midwifery.
Home Childbirth.
Nurse Midwives.
Genre/Form Anecdotes.
Personal Narrative.
Anecdotes.
Personal narratives.
LC no. 2001054988
ISBN 0743219333 hardback