midwives

At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth became a midwife in post-World War II London's East End. She details what her job entailed, the people she met, including the woman with twenty-four children, and what life was like in postwar London.

Sixteen-year-old Gaia and her mother faithfully deliver their quota of three infants every month to the Enclave but when her mother is imprisoned by the very ones they have been so loyal to, Gaia begins to question their motives and risks her life to save her mother.

On the Nebraska prairie in 1880, eleven-year-old Emma finds a way to celebrate the spirit of Christmas while her mother, a midwife, delivers a baby on Christmas Eve.

Sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is in the wasteland with nothing but her baby sister, a handful of supplies, and a rumor to guide her when she is captured by the people of Sylum, a dystopian society where she must follow a strict social code or never see her sister again.

Cut off from the hospital and rescue squad by an ice storm, midwife Sibyl Danforth makes the decision to perform a cesarean section on a patient she believes has died of a stroke during labor, but when her assistant tells police the mother was alive during the surgery, Sibyl and the entire community are drawn into a gripping trial.

During the early 1900s, eleven-year-old Viney spends her summer working for the local midwife and learns firsthand about birth, death, and "catchin' babies.".

An overview of the history of midwifery, the categories of certification and training, birth settings, career planning, and midwives and the health care debate.