Since 1984 Polly's Birth Book: Obstetrics For The Home is being
used by doctors over the world who are looking to provide natural childbirth to the ever increasing demands of some patients.
It is used as the primary training manual in midwifery schools, as a reference book in Childbirth Centers and classes by Certified
Nurse Midwives, EMTs and other paramedics. Thousands of parents and Lay Midwives use this volume as a valuable resource for
family planning, pregnancy and childbirth, and postpartum care.
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.
It is a well known fact
that in disaster situations Triage rules the day! This means that women will be told to stay home or go elsewhere to deliver
their babies because childbirth is not a life threatening emergency! Rightly, the Sheriff's Office wanted to help the
layman to become prepared to assist a mother in childbirth. While Polly's Birth Book alone lacks the element of hand-on
experience for the reader, nevertheless it is by far the most sought after childbirth "how-to" book on the market
world over.
Polly's Birth Book is 586 pp, and has 71 illustrations by the author.