Adventures of a Midwife
Adventures of a Midwife

Author: Elsie Maier Wilson

Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.

Published: 2023-12-15

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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An insightful, honest memoir by a remarkable woman. --Alycin Hayes, Author of Amazon Hitchhiker An extraordinary book by a person of deep faith and courage. --Kenneth D. Wald, Author of forthcoming Ghosts on the Wall Adventures of a Midwife chronicles the journey of a woman with a goal, determined to excel in spite of life's challenges. We cheer for her every stage of her lifelong sojourn. --Leo Hines, Writers Alliance of Gainesville Adventures of a Midwife: Finding Joy on the Journey relates the challenges Elsie Wilson had in becoming a nurse-midwife in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky and the rainforests of Congo, Africa. This memoir describes her struggles in surviving abuse, cancer, depression, and fire. Her commitment to missions, which started at age thirteen, grew when she won a nursing scholarship and cared for her dying mother. The doubt and uncertainty that she could be used by God was dispelled as He took her on a journey only He could design, ending in joy. She never imagined she would be driving up creek beds in a Jeep, crossing over swinging bridges, or examining a pregnant woman with a snake hanging over her head. Delivering babies in shacks with newspapers on the walls and depending on God in life-threatening circumstances developed an inner joy despite these difficulties. God's faithfulness and grace provided the strength to survive the trauma she experienced and led her to become a spiritual midwife.

Mama Midwife
Mama Midwife

Author: Christy Tyner

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2013-02-23

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781480244108

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Mama Midwife is the story of young Miso the mouse, whose mother is a midwife. When Mama rushes out of the house in the middle of the night during a slumber party, Miso's friends are intrigued! Is Miso's mama a superhero? A secret agent? Miso giggles at the theories and gathers her friends close to share the real-life adventures of a midwife. When Miso's dream of attending a birth in the forest comes true, she learns more about birth then she ever could have imagined. This beautifully illustrated, hardcover book is perfect for children expecting a new sibling. Whether a baby is born at home or in the hospital, midwives play an invaluable, powerful and often sacred role in many births. Mama Midwife is a hip and tender story that introduces children to midwifery, while celebrating and affirming our ability to birth.

Call The Midwife
Call The Midwife

Author: Jennifer Worth

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2009-05-14

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 0297859668

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A fascinating slice of social history - Jennifer Worth's tales of being a midwife in 1950s London, now a major BBC TV series. Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to endure. But while Jennifer witnessed brutality and tragedy, she also met with amazing kindness and understanding, tempered by a great deal of Cockney humour. She also earned the confidences of some whose lives were truly stranger, more poignant and more terrifying than could ever be recounted in fiction. Attached to an order of nuns who had been working in the slums since the 1870s, Jennifer tells the story not only of the women she treated, but also of the community of nuns (including one who was accused of stealing jewels from Hatton Garden) and the camaraderie of the midwives with whom she trained. Funny, disturbing and incredibly moving, Jennifer's stories bring to life the colourful world of the East End in the 1950s.

The Midwife of Venice
The Midwife of Venice

Author: Roberta Rich

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-02-14

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 145165748X

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Not since Anna Diamant’s The Red Tent or Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book has a novel transported readers so intimately into the complex lives of women centuries ago or so richly into a story of intrigue that transcends the boundaries of history. A “lavishly detailed” (Elle Canada) debut that masterfully captures sixteenth-century Venice against a dramatic and poetic tale of suspense. Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies from their mothers using her secret “birthing spoons.” When a count implores her to attend his dying wife and save their unborn son, she is torn. A Papal edict forbids Jews from rendering medical treatment to Christians, but his payment is enough to ransom her husband Isaac, who has been captured at sea. Can she refuse her duty to a woman who is suffering? Hannah’s choice entangles her in a treacherous family rivalry that endangers the child and threatens her voyage to Malta, where Isaac, believing her dead in the plague, is preparing to buy his passage to a new life. Told with exceptional skill, The Midwife of Venice brings to life a time and a place cloaked in fascination and mystery and introduces a captivating new talent in historical fiction.

Midwife
Midwife

Author: Peggy Vincent

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10-17

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13:

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Set around Berkeley, California, Midwife: An Adventure is filled with unique characters and local color balanced by a skilled midwife's ability to educate readers through the ancient art of storytelling. Voices of women and children from the Internet are unique additions to this volume. Narrated by a midwife with a Go Get 'Em attitude and written with humor, tolerance, and everlasting wonderment, Midwife: An Adventure is Peggy's fourth book on the subject but her third in the series Memoirs of an Urban Midwife. Along with Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife, Scribner 2002), Peggy's first book, these volumes have provided the impetus for many women to become midwives and for even more to consider the option of choosing a midwife for their care, whether they planned a home or a hospital birth.

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife

Author: Meg Elison

Publisher: 47north

Published: 2016-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781503939110

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"In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth's population--killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant--the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power--and the strong who possess it. A few women like her survived, though they are scarce. Even fewer are safe from the clans of men, who, driven by fear, seek to control those remaining"--Back cover.

The Midwife's Secret Child
The Midwife's Secret Child

Author: Fiona McArthur

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2020-01-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1488066140

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Torn apart by circumstance… Reunited by their child… When doctor Raimondo Salvanelli was forced to walk out of her life, midwife Faith Fetherstone was heartbroken and, unknowingly, pregnant! Her letter to tell him went unanswered, so she dedicated herself to being the best mom she could be. Now Raimondo has returned, having finally discovered he’s a dad! He so wants to be part of their lives, but can he convince Faith to trust him with their daughter’s heart—and her own? The Midwives of Lighthouse Bay trilogy Book 1 – A Month to Marry the Midwife Book 2 – Healed by the Midwife’s Kiss Book 3 – The Midwife’s Secret Child “I absolutely adored the story.... Highly recommended for fans of contemporary romance. I look forward to reading more of Fiona McArthur's work.” —Goodreads on Healed by the Midwife’s Kiss “What a wonderful way to start a series Ms. McArthur has done with a book that was filled with plenty of emotion.... The way this story started with the prologue sets the fast-pace of this story....” —Harlequin Junkie on A Month to Marry the Midwife

The Midwife of Hope River
The Midwife of Hope River

Author: Patricia Harman

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2012-08-28

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0062198904

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A remarkable new voice in American fiction enchants readers with a moving and uplifting novel that celebrates the miracle of life. In The Midwife of Hope River, first-time novelist Patricia Harmon transports us to poverty stricken Appalachia during the Great Depression years of the 1930s and introduces us to a truly unforgettable heroine. Patience Murphy, a midwife struggling against disease, poverty, and prejudice—and her own haunting past—is a strong and endearing character that fans of the books of Ami McKay and Diane Chamberlain will take into their hearts, as she courageously attempts to bring new light, and life, into an otherwise cruel world.

Journey to Birth
Journey to Birth

Author: Sakina O'uhuru

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2013-09-05

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1481756443

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This book is about my life journey as a home-birth midwife. It includes the many home births I attended during my sixteen years as a practitioner, with particular attention to the last ten years. During this journey, I have learned a myriad of life lessons. Most of them strengthened me and my ability to continue on this path. There were incredible challenges, both joyful and painful. The most challenging lessons happened to be the most life-changing and transformative. Those lessons impacted my life tremendously, first as a woman, second as a mother and grandmother, and most assertively as a basic human being.

Baby Catcher
Baby Catcher

Author: Peggy Vincent

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2003-04-15

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780743219341

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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. More than a collection of unforgettable stories, "Baby Catcher" is a clarion call for a less technological, more personalized approach to childbirth in this country.