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found at milepost 189.9 on the Blue Ridge Parkway - with an amazing story...
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>>Born in 1837, "Aunt" Orlena Hawks Puckett lived here during the latter of her 102 years. A bride at 16, Mrs. Puckett and her husband first farmed below nearby Groundhog Mountain, later moving up to this spot "on top of the mountain."
Mrs. Puckett was past 50 when she began a long career of midwifery. She assisted at the birth of more than 1000 babies, delivering the last in 1939, the year she died. It has been said she never lost a child or mother through her own fault. Tragically, none of Mrs. Puckett's own 24 children lived past infancy.
Regardless of weather, "Aunt" Orlena went wherever and whenever called. Sometimes on horseback, often walking, the midwife brought assurance and kindness to all she visited. When she began her practice around 1890 her fee was one dollar, and "when times was good," six dollars. Often receiving food or other goods in lieu of money, she generously shared all she had with neighbors or those in need.
Today, Orlena Puckett is remembered in this area for her witty, cheerful personality, as well as for her unselfish and skillful practice as a midwife.<<
- Text from the placard by the cabin.
Additional note:
Orlean and John Puckett lived in a larger house that was located in what is now the garden plot on this site. The cabin here currently was moved to the property for one of John’s sisters to live in. It is preserved by the National Park Service to keep the memory of Orlean alive.
The Midwife Center's 8th annual cake contest and fundraiser party, Let Them Eat Cake - "5001: A Baby Odyssey", celebrated the anticipated arrival of their 5,000th birth! The fun, futuristic theme made for an out-of-this-world photobooth!
Photo by Renee Greenlee, reneegreenlee.daportfolio.com
In Afghanistan we visited project sites of Healnet TPO, a Dutch based NGO with years of experience in Afghanistan. We visited project sites in Jalalabad and around to learn more on their midwifery programs that run throughout the government. Their policies have now been implemented by the Afghan government through the whole country.
Midwife Rose Vishangweli breastfeeding her daughter in Mkanga 2 village in the Lindi district of Tanzania..
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Over the last year Save the Children has trained 392 health workers in the Lindi region of Tanzania, and provided them with the skills they need to stop preventable deaths associated to child birth and newborn babies. .
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Lindi region is one of the Tanzania's poorest areas - where children and mothers die in higher numbers than anywhere else in the country. Under-five mortality rate in Lindi is as high as 117 per 1,000 live births. Children's in this region is influenced by complex issues including remoteness, poor infrastructure such as roads and electricity, lack of education, inadequate planning and budgeting for health, lack of equipment and staff training as well as socio-cultural and religious beliefs..
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Maternal, new born and child health indicators are still relatively poor in Tanzania, with the Maternal Mortality Ration as high as 454 deaths per 100,000 births, neonatal death of 26 per 1,000, Infant Mortality Rate of 51 per 1,000 and under five Mortality Rate of 81 per 1,000 live births. .
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Picture by Jordi Matas for Save the Children
The common midwife toad is a species of midwife frog in the family Alytidae. It is found in North Western Europe, although the British Isles are not part of its natural range. It is relatively small, typically less than 5cm long. The usually nocturnal call is a repetitive sound reminiscent of a smoke alarm's low battery warning - a high pitched 'electronic' beep with a relatively clear tone. Sometimes, this call is performed even during day from the toad's den. Characteristically, the male carries fertilised eggs around on his ankles - hence the common name.
Nativity in Byzantine tradition with midwifes and Jesus first bath
London BL Egerton MS 1139 Folio-2r [1131-43 CE]
The Melisende Psalter (London, British Library, MS Egerton 1139) is an illuminated manuscript commissioned around 1135 in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, probably by King Fulk for his wife Queen Melisende.
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Midwife means with woman
A midwife is a professional in midwifery. In addition to providing care to women during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum period, midwives also provide primary care related to reproductive health, including annual gynecological exams, family planning, and menopausal care.
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Original caption: After another delivery Maude departed at 4:30 a.m., leaving the case in charge of another midwife.
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W. Eugene Smith’s Landmark Photo Essay, ‘Nurse Midwife’
“In December 1951, LIFE published one of the most extraordinary photo essays ever to appear in the magazine. Across a dozen pages and featuring more than 20 of the great W. Eugene Smith’ pictures, the story of a tireless South Carolina nurse and midwife named Maude Callen opened a window on a world that, surely, countless LIFE readers had never seen — and, perhaps, had never even imagined. Working in the rural South in the 1950s, in “an area of some 400 square miles veined with muddy roads,” as LIFE put it, Callen served as “doctor, dietician, psychologist, bail-goer and friend” to thousands of poor (most of them desperately poor) patients — only two percent of whom were white.”
“Nurse Midwife” as it appeared in the Dec. 3, 1951, issue of LIFE magazine.
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2020 Reel youtu.be/fXhm5se6H3c
2017 Reel www.starnow.com/media/778224
2016 Reel www.starnow.co.uk/media/623368
2015 Reel www.starnow.co.uk/media/500618
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Call the Midwife is a BBC period drama series about a group of nurse midwives working in the East End of London in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It stars Jessica Raine, Miranda Hart, Helen George, Bryony Hannah, Laura Main, Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris, Judy Parfitt, Cliff Parisi, Stephen McGann, Ben Caplan, Emerald Fennell, Victoria Yeates, Jack Ashton, Linda Bassett, Charlotte Ritchie, Kate Lamb, Jennifer Kirby, Annabelle Apsion and Leonie Elliott. The series is produced by Neal Street Productions, a production company founded and owned by the film director and producer Sam Mendes, Call the Midwife executive producer Pippa Harris, and Caro Newling. The first series, set in 1957, premiered in the UK on 15 January 2012.
The series was created by Heidi Thomas, originally based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth who worked with the Community of St. John the Divine, an Anglican religious order, at their convent in the East End in London. The order was founded as a nursing order in 1849. The show has extended beyond the memoirs to include new, historically sourced material.[1] For the most part it depicts the day-to-day lives of the midwives and those in their local neighbourhood of Poplar, with certain historical events of the era having a direct or indirect effect on the characters and storylines.
Such events include: the continuing effects of the post-World War II baby boom, post-war immigration and the 1948 founding of the National Health Service in the first series and beyond; the introduction of gas and air as a form of pain relief and unexploded ordnance in the second series; the Child Migrants Programme and the threat of nuclear warfare (including emergency response guidelines issued by local Civil Defence Corps) in the fourth series; and the effects of thalidomide as well as the introduction of the contraceptive pill in the fifth series.
Call the Midwife achieved very high ratings in its first series, making it the most successful new drama series on BBC One since 2001.[2] Since then, five more series of eight episodes each have aired year-on-year, along with an annual Christmas special broadcast every Christmas Day since 2012. It is also broadcast in the United States on the PBS network, with the first series starting on 30 September 2012.[3]
In December 2015, the Director-General of the BBC Tony Hall announced the show had been commissioned for a 2016 Christmas special and a sixth series of another eight episodes to be broadcast in early 2017, taking the characters and plot into 1962.[4] In November 2016, Charlotte Moore, Director of BBC Content, announced that the drama had been commissioned for a further three series of eight episodes and three more Christmas specials – taking the total number of series up to nine and the story into 1965.[5]
Critical reception for the show (in both the UK and the US) has been mostly positive, and the series has won numerous awards and nominations since its original broadcast.[6] The show has also been praised for tackling a variety of topical subjects and contemporary social, cultural and economic issues, including local community, miscarriage and stillbirths, abortion and unwanted pregnancies, birth defects, poverty, illness and disease epidemics, prostitution, incest, religion and faith, racism and prejudice, alcoholism, disability, (then-illegal) homosexuality between men, lesbianism, female genital mutilation, and maternal, paternal, and romantic love.
Chamomile is enjoying a break in the shade of the garden. She delivered 2 litters of mice earlier today and she is exhausted. Working as a midwife is challenging, especially since mice reproduce so fast and so frequently. She keeps busy with the growing village population.
Have not posted any mice in a while and I am beginning to miss them.
Mouse and clothing I made
1:12 dollhouse miniatures
Fairy garden table
Christmas ornament Adirondack chair
Scrapbook paper
Plants I assembled
In my lavender bed
In Afghanistan we visited project sites of Healnet TPO, a Dutch based NGO with years of experience in Afghanistan. We visited project sites in Jalalabad and around to learn more on their midwifery programs that run throughout the government. Their policies have now been implemented by the Afghan government through the whole country.
Local call number: c002678
Title: Midwife Annie Mae Taylor:Jasper, Florida
Date: 1979
Physical descrip: 1 slide - col.
Series Title: Folklife Collection
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.myflorida.com
Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/119952
Common Midwife Toad, Alytes obstetricans
Series on white background
Janet Ogeste works as a midwife at Kanogi health centre. "My name is Janet Ogeste. I was born in 1978 here in Tanzania. In my job as a midwife I help the woman who ar delivering to have their babies safely. I take care of the newborn baby and sometimes help bring a woman who has just delivered a baby to the health centre at Kanoge for other care, for medical treatment. I do this from Monday to Friday. When I'm helping to bring another human being into the world I feel very happy, happy to be a part of bringing that new being here and happy because God helps me to do this job."
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Armenian refugees [new baby, mother & midwife]
[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.27203
Call Number: LC-B2- 4646-5
(Karen Kasmauski/MCSP). MCHIP and USAID underwrite the HoHoe Midwifery Training school in Hohoe. The students get their practical experience at the Municipal Hospital which is connected.
Midwifery students in the labor room observing and participating in the birth process. Preceptor, Enefa Anani, another preceptor is showing the students suturing on a patient who had to be cut for a safe birth.
Midwife Vicenta Tepox dedicates this exvoto painting to the Holy Lord of the Wonders for guiding her hands as she delivered many babies during her working years.
Contemporary exvoto painting by Gonzalo Palacios from Puebla, Mexico
A portrait of Oretha Buway a 37-years old, midwife of C.H. Rennie Hospital in Kakata, Margibi County in Liberia on March 4, 2015. Oretha lost 15 colleagues to Ebola at C.H. Rennie Hospital. Photo © Dominic Chavez/World Bank
Photo ID: Ebola_Portaits_by_Dominic_Chavez_0016
Charlie Rae Young is a Home Birth Midwife in Tampa FL.
All photos part of the Barefoot Birth archive and shared with permission.
I was going to depict my PLE as arrows going in and out but changed my mind - my PLE is all inclusive
Satara is training to be a midwife. But her situation is unusual – many girls do not complete secondary school and often marry very young. Her dream is for girls in her community "to have the opportunity to come to my school so that they too will have the knowledge of what I'm learning now."
Background
In Spring 2012, the British Government launched a new scheme – Women for Health – to support 7,000 girls and women to train as health workers in northern Nigeria by 2016. The new skills they learn will help save the lives of thousands of mums, babies and children.
Find out more at www.dfid.gov.uk/midwives-in-nigeria
Picture: Lindsay Mgbor/Department for International Development
I made a nurse's uniform for my new mouse girl. Every mouse town needs a midwife with all of the babies they have. Her uniform is modeled after those from one of my favorite shows "Call the Midwife."
The blue fabric was my husband's shirt and the red wool is from a jacket my mom had in the 70s. It was so nice to use. Did not unravel at all and was nice and thin. I tend to be a craft supply hoarder. One never knows when a scrap of fabric will be just perfect!
Today the midwife came to check on his weight gain. Unfortuantely he'd lost more than the "permitted" 10% so we've spent the past two days feeding every 3 hours with EBM top-ups. I feel like a freaking cow! Anyway, he's gained 100g in the past 48 hours which is good and we hope it continues. She also suspects that he was subjected to IUGR [one of my many issues] which would explain his sleepyness and reluctance to feed.
Nessie wants to know what a midwife is....
A fantastic book - based on the diary of Martha Ballard, a practicing midwife from 1785 - 1812. An amazing story and a monumental achievement for the author...this was the second time for me....
I have been doing nothing but painting, painting, painting....
preparing for my first solo show (at Paperboat Gallery in Milwauke). This is the first one that I have been able to document.
I will put up all of the works later....but now, back to work.