Lisa Yarger: 1 book
Lovie
The Story of a Southern Midwife and an Unlikely Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
From 1950 to 2001, Lovie Beard Shelton practiced midwifery in eastern North Carolina homes, delivering some 4,000 babies to black, white, Mennonite, and hippie women; to those too poor to afford a hospital birth; and to a few rich enough to have any kind of delivery they pleased. Her life, which was...
