Based on the accounts of midwives, their descendants, and the women they served, In the Way of Our Grandmothers tells of the midwife's trade--her principles, traditions, and skills--and of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.
"The book inspired me to have a baby," says a reader, "on my own." Debra Ann Susie left her home in Miami, Florida, to attended Florida State University. In the time of receiving her PHD, she wrote a dissertation. Her subject was brilliant; Midwifery. The book involves the broad-range of interviews from [mainly] southern, black midwifes in the Georgia/Florida rural areas. This charming book is truthful, and gaining, and will leave you in a new education of this life-producing job. `In the way of our grandmothers' is brilliant, and captures the amazing beliefs, and funny stories from midwives; our grandmothers.
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