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A Midwife in Amish Country

Celebrating God's Gift of Life

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A Midwife in Amish Country

By: Kim Woodard Osterholzer
Narrated by: Susan Boyce
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Midwife Kim Osterholzer ushers listeners behind the doors of Amish homes as she recounts her adventures answering God's call to the craft of midwifery.

Kim chronicles her nine-year apprenticeship grappling with the nuances and idiosyncrasies of homebirth. She recounts the beauty and painstaking effort of those early years spent catching babies by the light of crackling woodstoves, oil lamps, and lanterns. Every birth enthralled her, whether it involved halting hemorrhages, sharing breath with tiny lungs, or bouncing through wild rides in ambulances.

Too many times to count, Kim stumbled home feeling overwhelmed and inadequate, yet, as she matured in her relationship with Christ and strained against self-doubt and seemingly insurmountable challenges, those intimate, sacred moments of birth transformed her. Slowly and steadily, Kim learned to play her part in a symphony of inimitable midwives and, at last, tried and tested, took her rightful place among them.

©2018 Kim Woodward Osterholzer (P)2018 Dreamscape Media, LLC Christian Living Christianity Midwife Sexual & Reproductive Health Amish Amish Life
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Very little to do with births and lots to do with her journey through life pleasing God. Waste of my credit.

Don't judge a book by its title

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Totally loved it, it was unexpectedly Christ Focused, but this made it even better for me!

Christ Focused

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A beautiful, beautiful story. Please keep writing.
A retired midwife from Australia, I lived through every minute of each miracle of birth you recalled. It reminded me of the sacred joy we midwives are privileged to share with these families. Thank you so much.

An absolutely superb memoir

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