About The Author Polly Block

Since 1984 Polly's Birth Book: Obstetrics For The Home is being used by doctors over the world who are looking to provide natural childbirth to the ever increasing demands of some patients. It is used as the primary training manual in midwifery schools, as a reference book in Childbirth Centers and classes by Certified Nurse Midwives, EMTs and other paramedics. Thousands of parents and Lay Midwives use this volume as a valuable resource for family planning, pregnancy and childbirth, and postpartum care.

Polly's Birth Book: Obstetrics For The Home reflects the twenty-plus years experience of the author as a midwife. You also find there a healthy respect for life and the role of parents as they seek to multiply and replenish. The author was guest speaker at University seminars on childbirth, taught six-day training classes in midwifery in many of the states. She participated in the Carol Sakala research, reported in Content of Care by Independent Midwives, published in the Social Science & Medicine Journal, printed in Great Britain in 1988. She was asked to donate six weeks of training to a newly developed program, The Russian Birth Project, in St. Petersburg, Russia, wherein three of the nineteen maternity hospitals were being devoted to the training of midwives. She did not attend, but both of her birth books were used.

Now retired, the author is a great grandmother, and spends a lot of time writing good family reading materials to "help raise" some of the many children she helped bring into the world. Her sixteen titles and the Birth Book speak for her. Go to her writings to see through her window. All are paperback and very affordable. Polly's Birth Book is 532 pp, and has 71 illustrations by the author.

In 1988 the Utah County Sheriff's Emergency Preparedness Department asked Mrs. Block to enroll as an Emergency Midwife in the event of a natural disaster. She was also asked to prepare the Emergency Childbirth Handout issued from their office for the public. (Comes with the purchase of Polly's Birth Book for cost of printing: $5.)

It is a well known fact that in disaster situations Triage rules the day! This means that women will be told to stay home or go elsewhere to deliver their babies because childbirth is not a life threatening emergency! Rightly, the Sheriff's Office wanted to help the layman to become prepared to assist a mother in childbirth. While Polly's Birth Book alone lacks the element of hand-on experience for the reader, nevertheless it is by far the most sought after childbirth "how-to" book on the market.

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