Beating the Odds
An 81 year-old grandmother runs one of the most successful birthing clinics in the nation in the city with the worst infant mortality rate. Wyatt Andrews reports.
I particularly loved this:
“Do you think it boils down to just the time you spend with them,” Andrews asked Lubic.
“I think so,” she replied. “I’m convinced that’s what it is. It’s time, respect, its treating people with dignity.”
Inspiring! Kudos to Ruth and the midwives at the center!
Hi! I just found your blog (and I sent you an e-mail) but I am so excited to see someone blogging about this –– and providing such services, of course –– here in Indiana. I have been reading Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth, and my God, have my eyes been opened. I’m due in March with my first child and I’m SO glad a friend of mine suggested this book. I used to think doulas and midwives and natural birth were all kind of new age hooey (sorry), but I realize now how important your services are. And I’m so incredibly disappointed, but maybe not surprised –– by the continued insistence in hospitals on doing things the “technological/pathology”-based way. If only I could bring my husband on board … Keep it up!