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A Moderate Midwife

Ann Ledbetter
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Catching babies, raising humans, writing nuanced takes on pregnancy, birth and parenting.

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    I am a midwife (the certified nurse-midwife variety), mom, researcher, and writer. Partera de inmigrantes. FQHC employee. Maternal Mortality Review Team Member. Preferential option for the poor.

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