{"product_id":"desert-birthright-a-midwifes-memoir-paperback","title":"Desert Birthright: A Midwife's Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLori Wrankle\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe coming-of-age memoir of a homebirth midwife in the Southwest\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Lori Wrankle was sixteen when she helped deliver her first baby. \"I witnessed the entire universe unfold at my feet,\" she writes in \u003ci\u003eDesert Birthright\u003c\/i\u003e. Later, working as a hospital doula, Wrankle observed firsthand the suffering inflicted upon birthing women by male-dominated Western childbirth practices, from casual racism to unnecessary and nonconsensual procedures, including the dreaded \"husband stitch.\" After a traumatic labor and delivery of her own, she decided to take back woman-centered childbirth and start a homebirth midwifery practice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDesert Birthright\u003c\/i\u003e traverses twenty-five years of midwifery, often in fundamentalist polygamist circles, weaving together birth stories with childhood memories as Wrankle grapples with her shifting Mormon faith. Her poetic voice shines--a placenta becomes the tree of life, the folds in a baby's arm layers of sand in the desert. \u003ci\u003eDesert Birthright\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply personal story of life, death, and modern womanhood in the rural Southwest, and of one midwife's journey of faith, self-discovery, and liberation in the face of adversity.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLori Wrankle\u003c\/b\u003e is a lay midwife with twenty-five years of experience. She has delivered hundreds of babies, primarily serving Mormon women of southern Utah and northern Arizona.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 03, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47194183696633,"sku":"9781647692483","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/60T5pHwzuH9781647692483.webp?v=1767916894","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/desert-birthright-a-midwifes-memoir-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}