Title: Diary of a midwife
First published: 1998
Description: "Despite our country's affluence and high-tech advances in neonatal intensive care, in 1994 the U.S. ranked twenty-first in infant mortality rates among developed countries with populations over 2.5 million. Women with low-risk pregnancies are frequently failed by the traditional obstetrical system, either because they cannot afford proper prenatal care, or because the system fosters an attitude of dependency on doctors, surgery and drugs, rather than a sense of empowerment during the birth process. This enlightening book demonstrates with conviction that childbirth can and should be a process of empowerment, and that midwifery should be the standard of care for women with low-risk pregnancies."--Jacket.
Subjects: Diaries, Midwifery, Obstetrics, Midwives, Biography, Virginia, biography
Places: Virginia
People: Juliana Van Olphen-Fehr
LC classification: RG961.V8 V36 1998