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Martha Moore Ballard (February 20, 1735 – May 7, 1812) was an American midwife, healer, and diarist.Unusual for the time, Ballard kept a diary with thousands of entries over nearly three decades, which has provided historians with invaluable insight into colonial frontier-women's lives.
Maude E. Callen (November 8, 1898 [1] in Quincy, Florida – January 23, 1990 [1] in Pineville, South Carolina [2]) was a nurse-midwife in the South Carolina Lowcountry for over 60 years. Her work was brought to national attention in W. Eugene Smith's photo essay "Nurse Midwife," published in Life on December 3, 1951. [2] [3]
Margaret Charles Smith was Born in Eutaw, Alabama on September 12, 1906. About 3 weeks after Smith's birth however, her mother Beulah Sanders, passed away. After the death of her mother, Smith was raised by her grandparents on their farm in Eutaw, Alabama. [2]
Jennifer Louise Worth RN RM (née Lee; 25 September 1935 – 31 May 2011) was a British memoirist.She wrote a best-selling trilogy about her work as a nurse and midwife practising in the poverty-stricken East End of London in the 1950s: Call the Midwife (2002), Shadows of the Workhouse (2005) and Farewell to The East End (2009).
Mary Francis Hill Coley (August 15, 1900 – March 8, 1966) was an American lay midwife who ran a successful business providing a range of birth services and who starred in a critically acclaimed documentary film used to train midwives and doctors.
Biddy Mason (August 15, 1818 – January 15, 1891) was an African-American nurse and a Californian real estate entrepreneur and philanthropist.She was one of the founders of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church [1] in Los Angeles, California.
Midwives were involved with births from all social classes to various degrees. The poorest women were typically helped by the women in their family and their neighbors rather than the midwives from the towns. In towns, government compensated midwives with "tax exempt status or a small pension" for their service within the community. [3]
She completed a spiritual midwifery apprenticeship at The Farm in Tennessee in 1978, followed by clinical training at the University of New Mexico Women's Health Training Program. [ 6 ] Cook also attended the founding meeting of Women of all Red Nations (WARN) in 1978 and later did a clinical placement at the Red Schoolhouse Clinic, a WARN ...