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Baby Catcher: Chronicles Modern

Author: Vincent Peggy
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Trade Division)
Category: Book

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

8 reviews
Sales Rank: 73598

Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9

ISBN: 0743219341
Dewey Decimal Number: 649
EAN: 9780743219341
ASIN: 0743219341

Publication Date: April 22, 2003
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•	Hardcover - Baby Catcher

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Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Insight ..... June 14, 2007
Wow ... What a fab read ... I came across this boock after being acepted to start training as a Midwife but found It would have been really useful before the interview process...
Although being a bit dated and about the trails and tribulations of Midwifery in the US it is a fantastic heart warming book which gets back to basics of pergnancy and birth.
The basic and honest style in which it is written is really lovely. I would really recomend it .

5 out of 5 stars

Amazing and interesting in many ways! February 24, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I have just read this book and thouroughly enjoyed it, I just couldn't put it down! It's the story of a woman who began off as a helping nurse in the hospital and gradually began to realise that her real future and career was in home-birth. It contains riveting stories of many different women in labour and giving birth as well as other stories involved in midwifery and a midwifes life. This book can be enjoyed by expecting mothers, midwifes or anyone who is interested in this amazing subject. I definetly reccomend it!

4 out of 5 stars

Interesting holiday read March 25, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

This book was great for reading a bit of and putting back down as each chapter was a mini story in itself.
Anyone who has children, wants children or has an interest in the miracle that is childbirth will love this story of laughter and tears.

5 out of 5 stars

A MUST for midwives, mothers, men and women everywhere! October 10, 2005
8 out of 9 found this review helpful

Baby Catcher by Peggie Vincent was the first book I read since deciding to pursue midwifery as a career. It is a biography of an American Independant Midwife who went against the grain of American child birth culture and persued natural, drug free births with as little medical intervention as was necessary,set in the 1970's. It was lovely, for the first time I understood why women would want to resist pain relief during labour (a previously alien concept to me!). The stories about the women and the births were slightly rose tinted I felt, but that added to the charm of the book but I didn't expect the twist the book had towards the end, albeit a very sad and unexpected end- The sorrow of the ending made me think for days! I would recommend it to anyone! In fact I did manage to convince a pregnant colleague to buy it, who was initially not in the slightest bit bothered, and now raves about it!

5 out of 5 stars

Inspiring!! April 24, 2004
20 out of 21 found this review helpful

This book was truly the most exciting account of a life in Midwifery. Myhusband bought the book for before I started my Midwifery training and itfilled me with excitemnet for what was to come. Once I started my courseit also did the rounds of everyone in my class who were also all full ofpraises for it after they had read it. Now that I have been doingMidwifery a while I often pick up this book when I am feeling particularlydown about the maternity services and midwifery and it nevers fails toremind me why I wanted to become a midwife and what the whole damn job isreally about. It is such a privilige.