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Cara Muhlhahn

Autor(a) de Labor of Love: A Midwife's Memoir

2 Works 86 Membros 6 Críticas

Obras por Cara Muhlhahn

Labor of Love: A Midwife's Memoir (2008) 84 exemplares
Home Delivery 2 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Sexo
female

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Not my favorite of hers and I do really like her work. The characters seemed less like real people and like “characters” in the sense of idiosyncratic or weird. Also the plot, what there was of it, was not engaging to me. The basic premise of the immigrant family assimilating or not was fine, but got lost in the weirdness. And alas, the main character (I think) Jem was vague, even at the end of the book. No there, there.
 
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PattyLee | 5 outras críticas | Dec 14, 2021 |
midwife's memoir. used more jargon than she should have. more life story less births than I liked.
 
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njcur | 5 outras críticas | Feb 13, 2014 |
Not what I was expecting. It struck me as a very superficial memoir, wherein the author flitted from midwifery process to how she got pregnant to how God or the universe or something thinks she's plenty special but never examined anything in much depth. I wasn't knocked out by the writing style, and there were more than several editing fumbles and typos. I focus on flaws like my dog focuses on his frisbee, to the detriment of everything in the area. The book seems to be sort of a companion piece to a movie called The Business of Being Born, and I can't help but think that the movie will be better. As far as the homebirth midwifery aspect, I didn't feel like there was any new information, but the stories might be reassuring to someone contemplating having her baby at home. Again, there was more surface than depth. Disappointing.… (mais)
 
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satyridae | 5 outras críticas | Apr 5, 2013 |
This wasn't the best written book, but the author is a midwife by profession and not a writer, so I can let it slide. The content was excellent, though. I wish I was brave enough to have a home birth with a midwife someday, but I think I'm too much of a wuss. I absolutely hate the idea of all that medication that goes into the mother's body going into such a tiny little baby body as well.
 
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RachelPenso | 5 outras críticas | Aug 8, 2010 |

Estatísticas

Obras
2
Membros
86
Popularidade
#213,013
Avaliação
3.2
Críticas
6
ISBN
2

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