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Model: ST/NU0030
ISBN: 9780743219341
Authors: VINCENT, PEGGY
Publishers: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Price: $950.00JMD
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This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 19 January, 2012.
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Each time she knelt to "catch" another wriggling baby -- nearly three thousand times during her remarkable career -- California midwife Peggy Vincent paid homage to the moment when pain bows to joy and the world makes way for one more. With every birth, she encounters another woman-turned-goddess: Catherine rides out her labor in a car careening down a mountain road. Sofia spends hers trying to keep her hyper doctor-father from burning down the house. Susannah gives birth so quietly that neither husband nor midwife notice until there's a baby in the room............