July 16, 2003

Interesting book titles

One advantages of working in this office is that you get to see the new book releases before anyone else. We are constantly working with publishers and authors regarding new titles and a steady stream of books arrive for review and consideration almost every day.

We choose the books and products for our range with some care. Any textbook on midwifery will be automatically included, as will most texts on breastfeeding. Books for the Essential Parent section of our list will require careful scrutiny, because we try to provide sensible, practical, baby friendly titles, just as we look for woman friendly titles for pregnancy and birth. Some books for parents have such wacky ideas that they fail to measure up to our standards (the current fad for “controlled crying” is one notable example) and these are rejected.

Two books caught my eye today, “Fresh Milk” and “Midwives of the Black Soil Plains”. Apart from the very attractive cover, Fresh Milk takes a quirky look at all the “other” aspects of breastfeeding, apart from the purely mechanical and physiological. It is very unusual in its approach and highly entertaining. There is plenty of material here that will resonate with women who have breastfed their babies and a lot you won’t find anywhere else.

In “Midwives of the Black Soil Plains”, the stories of the pioneer midwives are retold, complete with photographs, maps, extracts from public and private records and many anecdotes. The situations in which these midwives found themselves are truly amazing, and their inventiveness, resourcefulness and determination (not to mention skill) could make working as a midwife today seem simple, by comparison. However, although some aspects may have changed for the better, conditions for midwifery are still poor, but in different ways. In bygone days, the midwife worked by herself and did what she could in often trying and even dangerous conditions. Today, many midwives would love to work by themselves, without the meddling medical strictures that so-called “progress” has forced upon them. Conditions may be less hazardous in some ways (travelling by horseback through fire and flood for example) but more so in others: the heavy threats of litigation, for example. In the early days, women were grateful for anything the midwives could do to help and were not expecting everything to be “perfect”. How things have changed today - women seem to want the midwife to do everything and threaten action if expectations are not met.

People often yearn for “the good old days” when life seemed simpler and people friendlier and less stressed. Yet life today offers so much more for woman than ever before, if we can just stand the strain of having to deal with all our options!

Posted by andrea at July 16, 2003 04:45 PM

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