In the best-seller, Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife, Peggy Vincent explores her career as a midwife involving humorous and frightening events of the creation of a new human being. The novel includes a collection of unforgettable stories that are helpful support for any future mother. Vincent became a licensed midwife specializing in home births in 1980. She was previously a delivery room nurse for fifth teen years, spent ten years as a natural children teacher and also three years as the director of the first alternative birth centre in the East Bay. Hence, Vincent has a wealth of knowledge and personal experience with which to share. Vincent is now the first completely independent nurse midwife and has been granted hospital privileged in the Berkeley area.
The book is a call for a more personalized approach to childbirth and child rearing in America. Vincent tackles the myths surrounding mobile midwives and recounts the history of laboring women. In the 1960s, women were expected to follow orders and submit to the procedures that the doctor said. Vincent then goes on to recall her experience throughout the 70s, 80s, 90s and more recently. Vincent’s passion is to serve laboring women with complete respect and compassion throughout her private practice as a licensed midwife. However, the novel is open and provides a collection of all types of delivery experiences, including all the symptoms and pain that is endured during one’s home birth. Vincent accounts of more than 40 tales and details the symptoms of bellowing, bleeding, sweating and anxiety felt by most patients. All in all, Vincent has brought some 2,000 babies into the world over her 40 year course in home births. Her specialty covers recounts from the stages of home births; the first conversations with the pregnant woman, the occurrences when labor is about to occur, tackling contractions as well as visual references to the appearance of the baby’s head and the events that occur after the celebratory child birth.
The magic of child birth is revealed as Vincent reveals consistent stories of various mums she has dealt with; Christian Science moms, teen moms, spiritualist moms, Muslim moms and generally ordinary moms as well. There are also appendices that guide readers to more technical resources regarding women’s health as well as alternative medicine authors.
Baby Catcher is an inspirational novel for expectant mothers and generally anyone who enjoys a good read about one of nature’s greatest magical feat.
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