Arms Wide Open
Title | Arms Wide Open PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Harman |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2012-03-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0807001716 |
The author of The Blue Cotton Gown recounts living free and naturally against all odds—and discovering her true calling as a midwife—in this deeply moving memoir In her first, highly praised memoir, Patricia Harman told us the stories patients brought into her exam room, and her own story of struggling to help women as a nurse-midwife in medical practice with her husband—an OB/GYN—in Appalachia. Now, Patsy reaches back to the 1960s and 1970s, recounting how she learned to deliver babies and her youthful experiments with living a fully sustainable, natural life. Drawing heavily on her journals, Arms Wide Open goes back to a time of counter-culture idealism that the boomer generation remembers well. Patsy opens with stories of living in the wilds of Minnesota in a log cabin she and her lover build with their own hands, the only running water being the nearby streams. They set up beehives and give chase to a bear competing for the honey. Patsy gives birth and learns to help her friends deliver as naturally as possible. Weary of the cold and isolation, Patsy moves to a commune in West Virginia, where she becomes a self-taught midwife delivering babies in cabins and homes. Her stories sparkle with drama and intensity, but she wants to help more women than healthy hippie homesteaders. After a ten-year sojourn for professional training, Patsy and her husband return to Appalachia, where they set up a women's health practice. They deliver babies together—this time in hospitals—and care for a wide variety of gyn patients. They live in a lakeside contemporary home, though their hearts are still firmly implanted in nature. The obstetrical climate is changing. The Harmans' family is changing. The earth is changing—but Patsy's arms remain wide open to life and all it offers. Her memoir of living free and sustainably against all odds will be especially embraced by anyone who lived through the Vietnam War and commune era, and all those involved in the back-to-nature and natural-childbirth movements.
The Blue Cotton Gown
Title | The Blue Cotton Gown PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Harman |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2008-10-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0807096849 |
A nurse-midwife takes readers behind the exam room door of her rural West Virginia clinic in this “utterly true and lyrical” memoir (Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean) As a nurse-midwife and the manager of a women’s health clinic in West Virginia, Patricia “Patsy” Harman bears witness to the struggles and triumphs of every woman who walks through her exam room door. She sees Heather, a teenager pregnant with twins, through the loss of both babies and their father. She cares for Nila—a longtime patient who must try to make a new life without her abusive husband—and helps Kaz transition into a new body. The only thing more varied than these women’s backgrounds are their stories, which they share with Patsy inside her small clinic, covered only by a blue cotton gown. In her memoir, Patsy juxtaposes these heartbreaking and uplifting tales with her own story of keeping a small medical practice solvent. She recounts conversations with her patients over the course of a year and a quarter—a time when her own life seems on the brink of collapse due to financial troubles, malpractice threats, serious medical problems, and marital strife. Honest, compassionate, and wise, The Blue Cotton Gown is an unforgettable memoir that shines a light on the varied experiences of women everywhere. “In her sweetly perceptive memoir, Harman reveals how her exam room becomes a confessional . . . she reminds [women] that they’re not alone.” —People
Memories of a Midwife
Title | Memories of a Midwife PDF eBook |
Author | Olivia May |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2021-07-29 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781006682421 |
One of the most common questions that a midwife will receive in their career is "how many babies have you delivered?"This journal has been designed to allow a midwife to document the births they attend across their career. It contains the space to remember; the different baby names, the angel babies, the obstetric emergencies they've been involved in and allows them to recount their best stories. The journal provides a safe space for the thank you notes, cards, and photos they may receive from the women and families they care for. There is an annual CPD tracker, and an Australian and world map included for the midwives who have made travel an integral part of their career.This journal would make a beautiful gift for any midwife, whether they have years of experience, are about to enter their career, or for those who are about to pursue their studies.DISCLAIMER: It is advised that full names are not used in these records, to avoid confidentiality breaches. The journal holder is responsible for their own journaling content.
Memories of a Midwife
Title | Memories of a Midwife PDF eBook |
Author | Olivia May |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2021-07-29 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781006682469 |
One of the most common questions that a midwife will receive in their career is "how many babies have you delivered?"This journal has been designed to allow a midwife to document the births they attend across their career. It contains the space to remember; the different baby names, the angel babies, the obstetric emergencies they've been involved in and allows them to recount their best stories. The journal provides a safe space for the thank you notes, cards, and photos they may receive from the women and families they care for. There is an annual CPD tracker, and an Australian and world map included for the midwives who have made travel an integral part of their career.This journal would make a beautiful gift for any midwife, whether they have years of experience, are about to enter their career, or for those who are about to pursue their studies.DISCLAIMER: It is advised that full names are not used in these records, to avoid confidentiality breaches. The journal holder is responsible for their own journaling content.
The Midwife's Journal
Title | The Midwife's Journal PDF eBook |
Author | Bonnie U. Gruenberg |
Publisher | Synclitic Press |
Pages | 97 |
Release | 2009-05 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0979002028 |
The Midwife's Journal is a creative space in which to record not only essential birth statistics, but also impressions, reflections and telling details that might otherwise be lost. Midwives, physicians, doulas, nurses, and other childbirth professionals will appreciate this unique organizer. This 96-page hardbound volume is durable enough to be carried in a birth bag and subjected to the rigors of daily use. Ample, logical forms provide space for logging 100 vaginal deliveries and 20 cesareans, with abundant room for stories, memories, and keepsakes. A unique do-it-yourself index allows the midwife to easily compile statistics and to find complications and other significant events. A section for contacts and four pages of tables and graphs help the busy professional keep a great deal of useful information at her fingertips. And the author's inspiring pencil drawings celebrate women and children, birth and renewal, and the passage of seasons. Childbirth is a transition for professional and client alike. The Midwife's Journal bears lasting witness to the trials and triumphs encountered in every birth and honors the eternal cycle of life.
La Partera
Title | La Partera PDF eBook |
Author | Fran Leeper Buss |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780472087129 |
The story of one woman's life in rural New Mexico and of her emergence as a community leader
Midwife
Title | Midwife PDF eBook |
Author | Peggy Vincent |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2016-10-06 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781539337232 |
MIDWIFE: A JOURNEY, the second book in Peggy Vincent's Memoirs of an Urban Midwife trilogy, focuses exclusively on the unique freedoms of home births. Set in Berkeley and Oakland in the ethnically diverse San Francisco Bay Area of California, the book is filled with unique characters and local color, balanced by midwifery knowledge and experience. Narrated by a midwife determined to "tell it like it is," and written with humor, tolerance, and occasional bemusement, MIDWIFE: A JOURNEY informs and entertains readers through the art of compelling storytelling.