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About the book
National Award for Lady’s Hands, Lion’s Heart!
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The award states: "Mothers Naturally Awards commend outstanding achievement in childbirth activism, advocacy for normal birth, and empowerment of women in childbirth. Mothers Naturally Awards recognize films, books and websites highlighting midwifery and home birth. The Midwives
This was an incredibly proud moment! Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein also won for Best Film for their groundbreaking documentary, The Business of Being Born. [go to http://mothersnaturally.org/resources/awards.php ]
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After the awards ceremony, there was a huge celebration. You can view a snippet of the fesitivities on YouTube [go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEMqOuz60qo and turn up your sound! Carol is the geek in the white shirt doing the Funky Chicken].
December 2008 ~ Kudos from the Midwives Alliance of North America: "MANA's own Carol Leonard was the very first Mothers Naturally award winner. Carol completed and published her remarkable memoir, Lady's Hands, Lion's Heart just in time to be nominated for this year's award. Congratulations Carol, you have been the face of New Hampshire midwifery for many decades as well as a founding mother of MANA. We love you and appreciate your work!"
Carol Leonard, Midwife, to Present at NEC — filed under: Feature Story
Carol Leonard, internationally acclaimed midwife, will give a talk on her new book at New England College on Wednesday, November 12th at 7:15pm. The event, sponsored by the Friends of the New England College Library, will take place in the Simon Center on Bridge Street in Henniker and is free and open to the public.
Since graduating from New England College in 1977, Carol Leonard learned the skills of the midwife from one of New Hampshire’s traditional country doctors. Since then she has not only delivered nearly 1,200 babies successfully, but has revived the practice of midwifery in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Russia. Her memoir of almost 30 years of practice, Lady’s Hands, Lion’s Heart, A Midwife’s Saga, was recently released by Bad Beaver Publishing.
Recognized as a leader of the modern midwifery movement, Leonard is a New Hampshire Certified Midwife and the co-founder of the Midwives Alliance of North America. She has been featured on ABC’s news magazine 20/20, and her new book was given the first annual Mothers Naturally outstanding book award.
Lady’s Hands, Lion’s Heart was awarded the first annual Mothers
Naturally national award of excellence for Outstanding Book, 2008.
“This new book by experienced New Hampshire
Leonard, is a wonderful read. It is funny, compelling, exciting,
and sad. I think it is the best midwife’s memoir I have ever read.
More than a collection of birth stories or midwifery musings,
Lady’s Hands, Lion’s Heart, is a personal journey, as well as a spirited
account of a larger journey occurring in the midwifery profession.”
—Molly Remer, Citizens for Midwifery News, Fall 2008.
“This book is subtitled A Midwife’s Saga. Saga means a narrative of
heroic deeds, which is a perfect description for this book.”
—Sonia Reppe/Chicago/Bookpleasures review
“Lady’s Hands, Lion’s Heart has it all. It’s part memoir, part
American history, part textbook, part spiritual journey, part love
story. Danger, romance, mystery, comedy and sometimes, sadly,
tragedy – Leonard’s stories will keep you turning the pages with
anticipation.”
—2008 Feathered Quill Book Reviews
“The stories she tells are written in such a way that I didn’t feel
like I was reading a book; I felt as if we were friends discussing her
experiences over a cup of coffee. I found myself eagerly turning the
pages, wondering what new experience she was about to share with
me. Ms. Leonard’s passion and intuition about midwifery shines
through on every page.”
—Lisa Kisner for Reader Views
“I have never felt so many emotions from a single book. This book
is a keeper!”
—Story Circle
reviewing books by, for and about women.
"Reading this book is like doing a line of coke and then drinking a shot of tequila. Euphoria! Then crying. Euphoria! Then crying. I'm amazed she did it to me even on the re-read." ~ C. Pinheiro, The Publishing Maven
Carol Leonard, internationally acclaimed midwife, will give a talk on her new book at New England College on Wednesday, November 12th at 7:15pm. The event, sponsored by the Friends of the New England College Library, will take place in the Simon Center on Bridge Street in Henniker and is free and open to the public.
Since graduating from New England College in 1977, Carol Leonard learned the skills of the midwife from one of New Hampshire’s traditional country doctors. Since then she has not only delivered nearly 1,200 babies successfully, but has revived the practice of midwifery in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Russia. Her memoir of almost 30 years of practice, Lady’s Hands, Lion’s Heart, A Midwife’s Saga, was recently released by Bad Beaver Publishing.
Recognized as a leader of the modern midwifery movement, Leonard is a New Hampshire Certified Midwife and the co-founder of the Midwives Alliance of North America. She has been featured on ABC’s news magazine 20/20, and her new book was given the first annual Mothers Naturally outstanding book award.
Lady’s Hands, Lion’s Heart was awarded the first annual Mothers
Naturally national award of excellence for Outstanding Book, 2008.
“This new book by experienced
Leonard, is a wonderful read. It is funny, compelling, exciting,
and sad. I think it is the best midwife’s memoir I have ever read.
More than a collection of birth stories or midwifery musings,
Lady’s Hands, Lion’s Heart, is a personal journey, as well as a spirited
account of a larger journey occurring in the midwifery profession.”
—Molly Remer, Citizens for Midwifery News, Fall 2008.
“This book is subtitled A Midwife’s Saga. Saga means a narrative of
heroic deeds, which is a perfect description for this book.”
—Sonia Reppe/Chicago/Bookpleasures review
“Lady’s Hands, Lion’s Heart has it all. It’s part memoir, part
American history, part textbook, part spiritual journey, part love
story. Danger, romance, mystery, comedy and sometimes, sadly,
tragedy – Leonard’s stories will keep you turning the pages with
anticipation.”
—2008 Feathered Quill Book Reviews
“The stories she tells are written in such a way that I didn’t feel
like I was reading a book; I felt as if we were friends discussing her
experiences over a cup of coffee. I found myself eagerly turning the
pages, wondering what new experience she was about to share with
me. Ms. Leonard’s passion and intuition about midwifery shines
through on every page.”
—Lisa Kisner for Reader Views
“I have never felt so many emotions from a single book. This book
is a keeper!”
—
reviewing books by, for and about women.
"Reading this book is like doing a line of coke and then drinking a shot of tequila. Euphoria! Then crying. Euphoria! Then crying. I'm amazed she did it to me even on the re-read." ~ C. Pinheiro, The Publishing Maven
Lady's Hands, Lion's Heart ~ A Midwife's Saga
By Carol Leonard
ISBN: 978-0-615-19550-6
$15.00
