false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171946208m/128154.jpg 128154 3 In a joyous, often hilarious ode to the Birkenstock-scuffling, tackle box-toting mobile midwives who flourished in the 1980s, Peggy Vincent chronicles her abundant life as a professional <I>Baby Catcher</I>. The wild ride begins during her nurse training years in the 1960s, when laboring women were expected to lie down, shut up, and submit to whatever drugs and procedures the doctor ordered. A rebellious patient who chants and dances through her contractions--and the hell that ensues when seasoned hospital staffers intrude--lights a permanent fire under Vincent. Her resolve to serve each laboring woman with compassion and respect carries her from obstetrics nurse to head of an alternative birth center within Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, California, and eventually into her own private practice as a licensed midwife. Like the most courageous home births, this collection of delivery experiences refuses anesthesia: plenty of bellowing, sweating, bleeding, and pushing accompany nearly all of the more than 40 tales. Tough confrontations with stubborn physicians, panicky labor partners, and one particularly nasty calico cat are dabbed with as many keen insights as Vincent's quieter, more heart-rending newborn encounters. <I>Baby Catcher</I> is an inspirational literary gift suitable for expectant mothers, fellow baby catchers, and anyone who loves reading about nature's greatest magical feat. <I>--Liane Thomas</I> 123422 2002 Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife total:847|5:430|4:331|3:79|2:5|1:2| 847 3723 1168 232 4 0 false false Mon Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Jul 20 19:44:05 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 19:44:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 11:29:11 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 09:02:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 09:26:26 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 08:46:44 -0700 2009
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Peggy Vincent presents birth as a natural...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 12 20:15:02 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 20:18:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 15:00:46 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 13:24:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 24 04:18:50 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 24 04:23:46 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sat Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 06:16:04 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 06:20:01 -0700 2009
That said, the book is wonderful. Each recounted story provides the reader with a new mir...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 05:56:19 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 20:43:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 09:18:37 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 13:02:50 -0700 2009
Peggy Vincent chronicles her career first as a young nurse in the late 1960's to becoming a nurse mi...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun May 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 08 10:24:53 -0700 2008 Sun May 03 09:58:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 05 12:07:41 -0800 2007 Mon Jan 14 12:47:40 -0800 2008 Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife by Peggy Vincent this weekend. I felt crappy all weekend, unable to even concentrate on TV, headachy, allergy-ridden, and wanting to nap, and I still read the entire book without even considering that I could be doing something else. That's how com...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 11:00:38 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 11:10:43 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 04 19:39:33 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 21:08:14 -0800 2008
the beginning and end of the book are a bit more story-like, a...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 13 21:22:13 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 21:22:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 08:28:03 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 09 13:31:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jan 04 12:31:16 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 23 11:19:40 -0700 2008
Reading about all the women and their births, that in itself is cool. Pretty much learn...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat May 09 19:31:40 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 19:36:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 16 19:17:37 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 08:47:19 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 23:34:22 -0700 2008 Mon May 26 14:26:32 -0700 2008
I am so touched by this book, only having finished it...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=128154