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Original Title:	The Birth House
ISBN:	0676977731 (ISBN13: 9780676977738)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Dora Rare, Marie Babineau, Gilbert Thomas
Setting:	Canada Nova Scotia(Canada)
Literary Awards:	Atlantic Independent Booksellers’ Choice Award (2007), Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Fiction Book & Book Design (2007), OLA Evergreen Award (2007)

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The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of the Rare family. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, she is drawn to Miss Babineau, an outspoken Acadian midwife with a gift for healing and a kitchen filled with herbs and folk remedies. During the turbulent years of World War I, Dora becomes the midwife's apprentice. Together, they help the women of Scots Bay through infertility, difficult labors, breech births, unwanted pregnancies and even unfulfilling sex lives.

When Gilbert Thomas, a brash medical doctor, comes to Scots Bay with promises of fast, painless childbirth, some of the women begin to question Miss Babineau's methods - and after Miss Babineau's death, Dora is left to carry on alone. In the face of fierce opposition, she must summon all of her strength to protect the birthing traditions and wisdom that have been passed down to her.

Filled with details that are as compelling as they are surprising-childbirth in the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion, the prescribing of vibratory treatments to cure hysteria and a mysterious elixir called Beaver Brew- The Birth House is an unforgettable tale of the struggles women have faced to maintain control over their own bodies and to keep the best parts of tradition alive in the world of modern medicine.

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Title	:	The Birth House
Author	:	Ami McKay
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 408 pages
Published	:	March 6th 2007 by Vintage Canada (first published February 14th 2006)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Canada

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I really loved this book. It was so well-written and a very fast read. I was a little more than skeptical given the subject matter since I really hated The Red Tent, I don't want children and I'm a believer in hospitals, modern medicine and clinical trials over "natural" remedies. Luckily, this book wasn't overly preachy or whiny at all. Yes, the author did set up the physician to be a complete villain to better illustrate her good = the old ways, bad = the modern ways. Seriously, given the

When the author moved to Scots Bay, Nova Scotia, she was informed that their new home was a birth house years ago. This was her inspiration for this book about Dora Rare, a young woman who was trained to be a midwife and a healer by Miss Babineau. Using herbs and folk medicine, Miss B had been taking care of the families in this remote village for decades.When Dr Thomas opens the Canning Maternity Home in a nearby town, he brings in totally different ideas about childbirth. He uses ether and

I enjoyed this book. Mostly about a young woman, Dora, who is the only girl in a long line of all males in her dad's family. She is deemed "special" for a few reasons upon her birth. It takes place in a small village in Nova Scotia around the time of WWI & the life of the people in the town was quite interesting. Dora is friends with the town's medicine town/midwife. Through this relationship Dora also starts to "catch babies".I found some parts of the book a little far fetched but it is

The Birth House by Ami McKay / William Morrow / 13-978-0-016 / 400pps / $24.95 When Ami McKay and her husband bought an old farm house in Scots Bay, Nova Scotia, she had no idea the history she would peel away from the walls or dig up in her yard. Removing layers of wall paper revealed plastered newspapers, tilling her soil unearthed bottle shards, and becoming pregnant led her to a midwife who related what she knew of the World War 1 village midwife that had once inhabited her very home.

Wonderful book! Amazes me to think about what struggles women faced when it came to childbirth and maintaining control over their bodies in the early 1900s.

The Birth House was an unexpected delight, not only because of the setting, a remote coastal village in Nova Scotia, but because of two extraordinary characters, Dora Rare, the apprentice midwife, and Madame Babineau, her Acadian teacher. In many ways the book reminded me of Eva Figes' beautiful book, The Seven Ages, which is now just about impossible to find. It deals with the reality of women's lives in a rural area in the early part of the twentieth century. The characters are entirely

3.5 STARS - In an attempt to read the many, MANY books that I own (both paper and digital) I decided to pick up The Birth House by Ami McKay which has been on my bookshelf for many years. I know. Tragic.The story focuses around Dora, a rural midwife in 1920's Nova Scotia. The story includes some Canadian historical details which I found interesting as well as a look into the limited rights women possessed regarding issues that affected their own bodies. Sadly, some of these issues are still