Vol. 47, No. 2 – Borning Babies

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Midwives and Birthing – Laquita Normore
Midwife Profiles – Laquita Normore & Aimee Chaulk
The Helpers –Laquita Normore
Millie’s Journey – Millicent (Blake) Loder
Honora “Aunt Hannah” Lowe Beals, –William A. Fowler
Violet M. (Learning) Matthews – William A. Fowler
Grenfell Nurses – Laquita Normore
“We are now eligible to be called Granny”:Midwives Among the Deep Sea Fishers – William A. Fowler
Joan Stedman
Meeting the Locals – Sheila Paddon
Nursing at the Valley Clinic – Susan Felsberg
W.A. Present I.G.A. Happy Valley Hospital with Isolette
Midwifery on the Coast in the 1970s – Sheila Wilson
Honouring the Connection
Where Do Babies Come From?
Something Terrible Strange – Leonard Budgell
We Always Had Some Old Woman – Flora Baikie
Midwife in a Punt – Cal Poole
Birth Stories/How birth was (excerpts)
George Cartwright’s Journal
Hulda – Hans-Windelkilde Jannasch
Klementine – Walter Perrett
Moravian Periodical Accounts
The Nain Nursing Station
Sidney Dicker – Bella Lyall
My Mom, Lucy Rich – Marie Angela Pijogge
It’s a Miracle – Gordie Rendell
Midwives and Delivering Babies in the Country – Naissa Penashue
And Twenty-Odd Great-Grandchildren – Mary Dumaresque
Some Little Difficulties – Mabel Manak
Triplets in Rigolet, 1952 – Patty Way
A Special Easter Bunny Delivery in Goose Bay – Gordon Steeves
Babies in Voisey’s Bay
The Birth of My Brother – George Rich
An Excerpt from An Inuk Boy Becomes A Hunter – John Igloliorte
They Knew So Much – Nellie Winters
Aunt Lou Cabot – Stella Fowler
Midwifery in Makkovik – Annie Evans
Eldred – Michael Normore, Sr.
Frank’s Birth – Maggie Saunders
Working Together – Agnes Blake
The People Had Confidence in Aunt Susie – John Winters
Lucky Number Fifty – Geoff Lyall
A Dogteam Mercy Mission – Max Jacque
My Birth – Bertha Holeiter
Twins at Independent
Aunt Violet Pardy – Vera Butt
Because I Was Handy – May Pardy
I Was Born Up the Bay – Ethel Hunter
I Was There When Ethel Was Born – Sam Pijogge
They Had a Big Responsibility – Wanda (Winters) Lucy
Caesarian Sections – W.A. Paddon
They Weren’t Afraid – Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue
Excerpts from Labrador Memories – Margaret Baikie
Tight Quarters – Carol Smith
Hope – Donna Andrew
Women Are Really Strong – Nachelle Poker
The Big Snowstorm – Josie Benuen
Excerpts from Reflections from a Snowhouse – F.W. Peacock
Everybody Is Not Prepared To Do It – Alex Poole
Some Cravin’! – Alex Poole
Excerpt from Labrador Doctor – W.A. Paddon
Leaving the Coast
Christmas Angel – Ruth Jacque
1990 Northern Childbirth Workshop
The Birth of the Innu Midwifery Program – Thea Penashue
All in a Name
Midwives in Training

Front cover: Clara Palliser. Rigolet, 1952. Courtesy of Patty Way
Back cover: Susie Andersen with Rev. Gerhard Vollprecht and his wife Inge, and baby Inge, Makkovik. Courtesy of the White Elephant Museum

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