Well, in the last third of the book you focused on what you have to do and what you don't do when it comes to birth, which connects to the first 2/3rds of the book. But let me be more specific.
1. Even though you are a licensed Midwife but you are not allowed to have any say in what happens when one of your own patients go to the hospital? You have been working with the mother the entire time but you have no voice in what happens Pg. 244
2. How come insurance has a part in what happens during a birth? Does the Midwife get paid from that insurance? Pg. 233
3. I thought that the quote in Pg.248 was very interesting "There's no money in dead baby cases" they just think about the money and not even how they lost the baby Pg.248
Well, let's be clear - your text sought to provide historical about midwifery and how it has changed over time and how it has impacted birth from the perspective of a midwife who you never really made it big or the book-reading-public to better understand pregnancy & birth in our culture. Given that aim, and your book, the best advice I would give for a 2nd edition of the text would be, to put things in your book about your peers experience and how they made it to a status of midwifery similar to yours. But I don't want you to feel like I'm criticizing. I appreciate the immense amount of labor you dedicated to this important issue and particularly for making me think about birth & pregnancy. In fact, I'm likely to do more research about home birth and I also think differently as a result of your book. The author replies, "Thanks! Talking to you gives me hope about our future as a society!"
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