Learn About Midwifery


To learn more about the history of midwifery:

A Midwife’s Tale; Martha Ballard her Diary by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Motherwit: an Alabama Midwife’s Story by Onnie Lee Logan
Listen to Me Good: the Life Story of an Alabama Midwife by Margaret Charles Smith
Birth Matters: a Midwife’s Manifesta by Ina May Gaskin

Fiction with Midwifery themes:

The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian

Memoirs by Midwives:

A Midwife's Story by Penny Armstrong and Sheryl Feldman
Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife by Peggy Vincent

Thinking of Becoming a Midwife?

Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin
Heart and Hands; A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth by Elizabeth Davis
Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskins
Varney’s Midwifery by Helen Varney
Holistic Midwifery by Anne Frye
Understanding Diagnostic Test in the Childbearing Year by Anne Frye
A Midwife’s Handbook by Constance Sinclair
North American Registry of Midwives: http://narm.org/
American College of Nurse Midwives: http://www.midwife.org/

Movies highlighting Midwives:

With Women; a Documentary about Women, Midwives and Birth by True Story Productions
The Business of Being Born by Rickie Lake and Abby Epstein
More Business of Being Born by Rickie Lake and Abby Epstein
Gentle Birth Choices by Barbara Harper
I am a Midwife, a movie trailer by the Midwives Alliance of North America: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIl6VnjQjJ8

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