. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. smart, exact and knowing," Epler discovered. "She established her own art of medicine and it ; When Epler asked how she had become such a successful midwife, Mis' Bashi said only, "Doctor, I had a good mom and learnin' to work. My own mother wit and being mindable to what a good doctor was tellin' me made me fitten to do ; Midwives such as Mis' Bashi often moved into a mother's home for days or even weeks. Preterm labor or a complicated pregnancy required her to arrive at
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. smart, exact and knowing," Epler discovered. "She established her own art of medicine and it ; When Epler asked how she had become such a successful midwife, Mis' Bashi said only, "Doctor, I had a good mom and learnin' to work. My own mother wit and being mindable to what a good doctor was tellin' me made me fitten to do ; Midwives such as Mis' Bashi often moved into a mother's home for days or even weeks. Preterm labor or a complicated pregnancy required her to arrive at the bedside early rather than wait until contractions had started, and she probably stayed until the mother was ready to care for the child herself. "Her fee at first was $ for the care of mother and babe," Epler wrote, though "later this became $3 and now $; Like much of the historical record, Epler's National Geographic article is vague about how she and Mis' Bashi actually handled deliveries. We can imagine the pair's skill and ingenuity from other nursing cases that she describes in more detail. When a fisher named Nevada arrived with a stingray tail embedded in his leg, Epler had not yet received her medical instruments from Kalamazoo. She and Mis' Bashi improvised tools out of cut-down lard and coffee cans, then rustled up their own treatment out of turpentine and coal oil, hot water and soap, and Epler's one bottle of Mercurochrome. Stretching the patient across the kitchen table, Epler cut away the stingray's tail, aided, she said, by "Mis' Bashi's 'mother wit' and her nimble, clean ; Epler witnessed the last days of traditional childbirth: at home, low-tech, under women's control, tended by a midwife. However, she didn't always understand the community's handling of childbirth. When she attended the eighth delivery of a woman named Mrs. Vienner, Epler observed that "a bevy of silent, sitting women, useless and immovable,
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