The Women Who Caught the Babies: A Story of African American Midwives by Eloise Greenfield

The Women Who Caught the Babies: A Story of African American Midwives

Eloise Greenfield with Daniel Minter (Illustrator)

32 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history poetry emotional informative reflective slow-paced

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The Women Who Caught the Babies highlights important aspects of the training and work of African-American midwives and the ways in which they have helped, and continue to help, so many families by "catching" their babies at birth. The blend of Elo...

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