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A Good Read
I just finished a really good book last night that I thought I'd share - The Birth House, by Ami McKay.
Here's the official description:
The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of Rares. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, she is drawn to Miss Babineau, an outspoken Acadian midwife with a gift for healing and a kitchen filled with herbs and folk remedies. During the turbulent first years of WWI, Dora becomes the midwife's apprentice. Together they help the women of Scots Bay through infertility, difficult labours, breech births, unwanted pregnancies and even unfulfilling sex lives.
When Gilbert Thomas, a brash medical doctor comes to Scots Bay with promises of fast, painless childbirth, many in the community begin to question Miss Babineau's methods. After Miss Babineau disappears, Dora is left to carry on alone. In the face of fierce opposition, she must summon all her strength and fight to protect the birthing traditions and women's wisdom that have been passed down to her.
Filled with details that are as compelling as they are surprising-childbirth in the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion, the prescribing of vibratory treatments to cure hysteria, and a mysterious elixir called Beaver Brew-The Birth House is an unforgettable tale of the struggles women have faced to have control of their own bodies and to keep the best parts of tradition alive in the world of modern medicine.
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{ Last Page } { Page 2 of 8 } { Next Page }sounds good
6:39 AM, 2006-Apr-27 .. Posted by heatherThat sounds like a great book. Also good are THE MIDWIFE and THE MIDWIFE'S ADVICE by Gay Courter. Those are about a Russian immigrant midwife in the early 1900s.
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