"Hey - thanks for writing Baby Catcher Your main idea of the difficulties that midwives face and the unique experinces they face with women and their pregnancies made me rethink pregnancy & birth.
"Really, which parts were most effective or important for you?"Well, in the last third of the book you focused mostly on the aftermath of families who gave birth with a midwife and how you made an impact in their lives and just how close and personal the families become with a midwife. (added another angle to/further developed the first 2/3rds of the book. But let me be more specific." And then you listed the top 3 ideas/pieces of evidence/insights/questions from that final third of the book.
1. when you had the conversation with Grace the baby you gave birth to
"But what could I have done to make this a better book - that would more effectively fulfill its mission?" You Answer "Well, let's be clear - your text sought to provide historical aspects for 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, how birthing has changed over the years or how midwifery has changed. 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 when I get pregnant what I would choose. In fact, I'm likely to choose a home birth with a midwife 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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