A Midwife in Amish Country: Celebrating God's Gift of Life
A Midwife in Amish Country: Celebrating God's Gift of Life by Kim Woodard Osterholzer
English | April 30th, 2018 | ASIN: B075RS9D2D, ISBN: 1621577279 | 256 Pages | EPUB | 0.95 MB
English | April 30th, 2018 | ASIN: B075RS9D2D, ISBN: 1621577279 | 256 Pages | EPUB | 0.95 MB
Kim Osterholzer, a midwife who's caught over 500 babies since 1993, ushers readers behind the doors of Amish homes as she recounts her lively, entertaining, and life-changing adventures learning the heart and art and craft of midwifery.
In A Midwife in Amish Country, Kim chronicles the escapades of her nine-year apprenticeship grappling with the nuance and idiosyncrasies of homebirth as she tagged along after the woman who helped her birth her own babies at home. With drama and insight, she recounts the beauty and painstaking effort of those early years spent catching babies next to crackling woodstoves, by oil lamp and lantern light, and in farmhouses powered by windmills for running water and sporting outhouses for the unmentionables. She found herself catching babies born into leaky wading pools and through howling snow storms: huge babies, tiny babies, breech babies, and twin babies. Some births kept her from home for days on end, others she missed by heart-pounding seconds, yet every birth enthralled her, whether halting hemorrhages, sharing breath with tiny lungs, or bouncing through wild rides in ambulances.
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