Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife
Peggy Vincent delivers babies as a home birth midwife in Berkeley in the 1980s. Each chapter tells with humor and pathos and delightful storytelling style of a significant birth experience and how she grew from student nurse at Duke University to certified midwife with her own office. Ultimately she tells of the demise of legitimate midwifery and the end of women's choice of a safe home birth....