A Midwife's Story: Life, Love and Birth Among the Amish

By Penny Armstrong and Sheryl Feldman

Book Overview

When hospital-trained midwife Penny Armstrong takes on a job delivering the babies of the Amish, she encounters a way of life deeply rooted in the earth. As she renews her respect for nature, she discovers an approach to giving birth which would change her life forever.

A gripping first-hand account of Armstrong's journey from student midwife in Glasgow to running her own practice in rural Pennsylvania, A Midwife's Story is a life-affirming book that never fails to enlighten, inform and surprise. Honest and ultimately very moving, it is inspirational reading for everyone interested in the art and humanity of midwifery.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780662009
• ISBN13: 9781780662008
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Montag & Martin
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

All this? In our world of impersonal, clinical medicine?

Imagine studying midwifery in Scotland, then going among the Amish of Pennsylvania to practice your trade. That's what Armstrong did and her stories about her adventures are riveting. She writes with charm and sensitivity of the joys and pains of birthing, living, dying among the quiet and unassuming ways of a community of simple, God-fearing folk who come to return and appreciate her love and care.As she strives to be accepted by local doctors and the local hospital she struggles with her own doubts about institutional births as opposed to home ones.A moving, lovely and loving book that respects and cherishes a people and a way of life, A MIDWIFE'S STORY will make you laugh and cry. Best of all, you can find a new understanding and respect for America's Pennsylvania Dutch Amish if you look for it. I do hope you don't miss this one.

Please read this book!

As a future certified nurse midwife, I read this book to inspire me in my studies. The story did much more than inspire my studies - it inspired and rekindled my faith in womankind and in the natural process of birth. A must-read for all medical professionals!

Wonderful,true stories of homebirth in the Amish community!

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It pictures how truly wonderful, natural and peaceful childbirth can be when faith and love are present and fear is absent. If only all women had such a midwife and trusted their own bodies!