Once, there was a hospital midwife in Albuquerque who earned a favorable reputation among parents for her unusual form of labor support: she sat in the corner of the room and knitted. Initially I anticipated mothers would feel the knitting-midwife was not really present to them, but in fact, every mother I spoke with said she was comforted by the midwife knitting. One mother recalled her experience:
Mandy-Doula in St. Louis
