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Laddar... Arms Wide Open: A Midwife's Journeyav Patricia Harman
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner. I enjoyed this book quite a bit. As other reviewers mentioned, I found the jump from early times to later in the life a little jarring. I preferred the earlier part of the book - I love reading about midwifery and natural births. I liked that the memoir part wasn't all positive - it was gritty and real.Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner. Quick disclaimer: I have a thing about communes, as in I love reading about them. So I really enjoyed the first half of Harman's memoir about living in communes in the seventies and assisting with births. I loved the simple language she uses to tell a birth story or to describe nature and make it sound beautiful. This is just a lovely memoir that makes me want to research midwifery and/or search them out and tell them how brave I think they are.inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
The author of Blue Cotton Gown recounts living free and naturally against all odds--and discovering her true calling as a midwife--in this deeply moving memoir In her first, highly praised memoir, Patricia Harman told us the stories patients brought into her exam room, and her own story of struggling to help women as a nurse-midwife in medical practice with her husband--an OB/GYN--in Appalachia. Now, Patsy reaches back to the 1960s and 1970s, recounting how she learned to deliver babies and her youthful experiments with living a fully sustainable, natural life. Drawing heavily on her journals, Arms Wide Open goes back to a time of counter-culture idealism that the boomer generation remembers well. Patsy opens with stories of living in the wilds of Minnesota in a log cabin she and her lover build with their own hands, the only running water being the nearby streams. They set up beehives and give chase to a bear competing for the honey. Patsy gives birth and learns to help her friends deliver as naturally as possible. Weary of the cold and isolation, Patsy moves to a commune in West Virginia, where she becomes a self-taught midwife delivering babies in cabins and homes. Her stories sparkle with drama and intensity, but she wants to help more women than healthy hippie homesteaders. After a ten-year sojourn for professional training, Patsy and her husband return to Appalachia, where they set up a women's health practice. They deliver babies together--this time in hospitals--and care for a wide variety of gyn patients. They live in a lakeside contemporary home, though their hearts are still firmly implanted in nature. The obstetrical climate is changing. The Harmans' family is changing. The earth is changing--but Patsy's arms remain wide open to life and all it offers. Her memoir of living free and sustainably against all odds will be especially embraced by anyone who lived through the Vietnam War and commune era, and all those involved in the back-to-nature and natural-childbirth movements. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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I’m younger than the author and no longer working in a healthcare space at this moment but the emotional impact of the experiences endure. This book is the beauty of midwifery. These are the memories of someone who has spent their lives caring about others. Which some could say was the spirit of the time of the 70’s. But, also, there are the timeless values of women and the beauty of life making.
As a person who has also had a series of different relationships with others as well as my own “failed” marriages I also understand what it is to walk a piece of life with someone, float apart, float back together, hold space. Something that is also seen in this book. This is an intimate beautiful book about caring and what it is to be a midwife with a window into one's private pensive space over a longer arc of life.