Baby Catcher: Chronicles Of A Modern Midwife; Author: Vincent, Peggy; Paperback

Author: Vincent, Peggy
Paperback
E16 - Scribner Tp
ISBN: 0743219341

In this engaging account of her career as a midwife, Peggy Vincent describes the often hilarious, sometimes frightening, events surrounding the appearance of a new human being. Vincent, whodelivered nearly three thousand babies, allows readers to peak over her shoulder as she rushes from the hospital delivery of a teenage welfare morn to the home of an astrologer married to a paraplegic; helps a mother give birth on a leaky sailboat during a raging storm; and tends the home birth of a woman who spends her labor trying to keep her hyper doctor-father from burning the house down.More than a collection of unforgettable stories, Baby Catcher is also a clarion call for a less technological, more personalized approach to childbirth in this country.