The Secret Midwife

Birth is one of the most defining, ubiquitous moments of human existence and there, from the very start to the very end, are the midwives who help us navigate it safely.

Author: The Secret Midwife

Publisher: John Blake

ISBN: 1789464579

Category: Hospitals

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Birth is one of the most defining, ubiquitous moments of human existence and there, from the very start to the very end, are the midwives who help us navigate it safely.
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The Secret Midwife

Life, Death and the Truth about Birth The Secret Midwife, Katy Weitz. Published by John Blake Publishing, 80–1 Wimpole Street, Marylebone London W1G 9RE www.facebook.com/johnblakebooks twitter.com/jblakebooks First published in hardback ...

Author: The Secret Midwife

Publisher: John Blake

ISBN: 9781789462531

Category: Medical

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For fans of One Born Every Minute. The Secret Midwife is a heart-breaking, engrossing and important read. At once joyful and profoundly shocking, this is the story of birth, straight from the delivery room. Strongest supporter, best friend, expert, cheerleader and chief photographer . . . Before, during and after labour the role of a midwife is second to none. The Secret Midwife reveals the highs and lows on the frontline of the maternity unit, from the mother who tries to give herself a DIY caesarean to the baby born into witness protection, and from surprise infants that arrive down toilets to ones that turn up in the lift. But there is a problem; the system which is supposed to support the midwives and the women they care for is starting to crumble. Short-staffed, over worked and underappreciated - these crippling conditions are taking their toll on the dedicated staff doing their utmost to uphold our National Health Service, and the consequences are very serious indeed.
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Summary of Katy Weitz s The Secret Midwife

#1 I knew from the age of sixteen that I wanted to be a midwife. ... I spent my teenage years going out with my friends, and I never thought about a career in midwifery until a teacher suggested there was a taster course on oer.

Author: Everest Media,

Publisher: Everest Media LLC

ISBN: 9798822582460

Category: Biography & Autobiography

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I knew from the age of sixteen that I wanted to be a midwife. I was the stereotypical artsy type of girl, but I didn’t have any interest in academics. I spent my teenage years going out with my friends, and I never thought about a career in midwifery until a teacher suggested there was a taster course on offer. #2 The community midwives would visit women in their homes after the birth, and listen to their stories. They would put complete trust and faith into their midwives, who were usually strangers to them. #3 I was so determined to become a midwife that I spent six days shadowing a midwife, and by the end of that week, I knew I had found my calling. I was so determined to fulfill my destiny that I immediately applied for a midwifery diploma course. #4 I was so excited to start my midwifery course, but I was also extremely nervous. I was the only student who had started university early, and I didn’t know what to expect.
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The Secrets of Midwives

The Secrets of Midwives is a powerful story about the buried secrets three generations of women are forced to confront. From Sally Hepworth, the number one bestselling author of The Mother-In-Law and The Family Next Door.

Author: Sally Hepworth

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

ISBN: 9781447279860

Category: Fiction

Page: 368

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The Secrets of Midwives is a powerful story about the buried secrets three generations of women are forced to confront. From Sally Hepworth, the number one bestselling author of The Mother-In-Law and The Family Next Door. 'Fiction at its finest' - Liane Moriarty, author of Big Little Lies. Neva Bradley was going to tell her family that she was pregnant – eventually. The discovery that Neva, a third-generation midwife, is six months pregnant is a surprise for everyone, but her stubborn refusal to identify the father is the greater shock. What is she hiding, and why? Her mother, Grace, cannot let this secret rest, even while her own life begins to crumble around her – a scandal that she must keep from her husband at all costs. For Floss, Neva's grandmother and a retired midwife, Neva's situation thrusts her back 60 years in time to a secret that eerily mirrors her granddaughter's. A secret which, if revealed, will have life-changing consequences for them all . . .
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The Midwives of Seventeenth Century London

Thus, the training of London midwives possessed similarities to the system followed by the male-dominated London guilds. Unlike a craft apprentice, an apprentice midwife would, unless related to her mentor, not live with her.74 Since ...

Author: Doreen Evenden

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9780521027854

Category: Health & Fitness

Page: 280

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This book is the first comprehensive and detailed study of early modern midwives in seventeenth-century London. Midwives, as a group, have been dismissed by historians as being inadequately educated and trained for the task of child delivery. The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London rejects these claims by exploring the midwives' training and their licensing in an unofficial apprenticeship by the Church. Dr. Evenden also offers an accurate depiction of the midwives in their socioeconomic context by examining a wide range of seventeenth-century sources. This expansive study not only recovers the names of almost one thousand women who worked as midwives in the twelve London parishes, but also brings to light details about their spouses, their families and their associates.
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The Secrets of Midwives

On some level, I could understand why Neva would keep the secret from me—perhaps she was afraid I'd demand she have a home birth or do something to embarrass her—but why would she keep it a secret from the father?

Author: Sally Hepworth

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

ISBN: 9781466852631

Category: Fiction

Page: 319

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"With empathy and keen insight, Sally Hepworth delivers a page-turning novel about the complex, lovely, and even heartbreaking relationships between mothers and daughters.—Emily Gifin Three generations of women Secrets in the present and from the past A captivating tale of life, loss, and love...Neva Bradley, a third-generation midwife, is determined to keep the details surrounding her own pregnancy—including the identity of the baby's father— hidden from her family and co-workers for as long as possible. Her mother, Grace, finds it impossible to let this secret rest. The more Grace prods, the tighter Neva holds to her story, and the more the lifelong differences between private, quiet Neva and open, gregarious Grace strain their relationship. For Floss, Neva's grandmother and a retired midwife, Neva's situation thrusts her back sixty years in time to a secret that eerily mirrors her granddaughter's—one which, if revealed, will have life-changing consequences for them all. As Neva's pregnancy progresses and speculation makes it harder and harder to conceal the truth, Floss wonders if hiding her own truth is ultimately more harmful than telling it. Will these women reveal their secrets and deal with the inevitable consequences? Or are some secrets best kept hidden?
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The Secret Midwife

The Secret Midwife is a work of fiction, but inspired by many real-life accounts of the Polish resistance, the brave doctors, nurses and midwives imprisoned in the camps and those who fought to save as many lives as possible in Poland ...

Author: Soraya M. Lane

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing

ISBN: 1662504063

Category: Fiction

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From the bestselling author of The London Girls comes a story of courage and resilience amidst the horror of Auschwitz--and one woman's last chance to share it with the world. London, 1995: When on the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz a news broadcast runs an appeal for information on the identity of a midwife who saved hundreds of lives, Emilia knows it is time to finally tell her story. Occupied Poland, 1942: Despite the constant presence of German soldiers in her village, Emilia is allowed certain freedoms as a midwife--the most precious is innocently cycling past Nazi checkpoints to the homes of expectant mothers on her rounds. But Emilia has a secret: for years she's also been visiting the hidden Jewish mothers and working for the resistance...until she is betrayed. Suddenly a prisoner of Auschwitz, Emilia is surrounded by horror and despair. When she is put to work as a midwife in the camp, she realises that she has a chance to bring a small glimmer of hope to the pregnant women of Auschwitz. Alongside a brave imprisoned doctor, Aleksy, and an innocent outcast, Lena, she comes up with a dangerous plan. A plan that if discovered could mean a fate far worse than death, but if they act undetected, they could save countless lives... The Secret Midwife is a work of fiction, but inspired by many real-life accounts of the Polish resistance, the brave doctors, nurses and midwives imprisoned in the camps and those who fought to save as many lives as possible in Poland during World War II.
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Amnesiopolis

... UTOPIA: THE STASI IN THE FABRIC OF THE NEW COMMUNITY As with the construction of the physical spaces and structures of settlements like it, the Stasi was the secret midwife to the construction of the new communities in Marzahn.

Author: Eli Rubin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780191046186

Category: History

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Amnesiopolis explores the construction of Marzahn, the largest prefabricated housing project in East Germany, built on the outskirts of East Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, and touted by the regime as the future of socialism. It focuses particularly on the experience of East Germans who moved, often from crumbling slums left over as a legacy of the nineteenth century, into this radically new place - one defined by pure functionality and rationality - a material manifestation of the utopian promise of socialism. Eli Rubin employs methodologies from critical geography, urban history, architectural history, environmental history, and everyday life history to ask whether their experience was a radical break with their personal pasts and the German past. Amnesiopolis asks: can a dramatic change in spatial and material surroundings sever the links of memory that tie people to their old life narratives, and if so, does that help build a new socialist mentality in the minds of historical subjects? The answer is yes and no-as much as the East German state tried to create a completely new socialist settlement, divorced of any links to the pre-socialist past, the massive construction project uncovered the truth buried-literally-in the ground, which was that the urge to colonize the outskirts of Berlin was not new at all. Furthermore, the construction of a new city out of nothing, using repeating, identical buildings, created a panopticon-like effect, giving the Stasi the possibility of more complete surveillance than they previously had.
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The science and art of midwifery

The woman died ; the negotiations for sale were dropped ; and Chamberlen returned with his secret unrevealed to England . In 1672 Chamberlen published a translation of Mauriceau's work upon midwifery , in the preface of which he states ...

Author: William Thompson Lusk

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015074008411

Category: Obstetrics

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