Polly's Birth Book: Obstetrics For The Home reflects the twenty-plus years experience of the author as a midwife. You also find there a healthy respect for life and the role of parents as they seek to multiply and replenish. The author was guest speaker at University seminars on childbirth, taught six-day training classes in midwifery in many of the states. She participated in the Carol Sakala research, reported in Content of Care by Independent Midwives, published in the Social Science & Medicine Journal, printed in Great Britain in 1988.

         Polly's Birth Book is 586 pp, and has 71 illustrations by the author.

Midwifery is a health care profession where providers give prenatal care to expecting mothers, attend the birth of the infant, and provide postpartum care to the mother and her infant. Practitioners of midwifery are known as midwives, a term used in reference to both women and men (the etymology of midwife is mid = with and wif = woman).

Midwives are autonomous practitioners who are specialists in a low-risk pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum stage. They generally strive to help women have a healthy pregnancy and natural birth experience. Midwives are also primary care givers providing general health care for women. Midwives are trained to recognize and deal with deviations from the norm.