Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife's Memoir Book

This book was not what what I was expecting. I was interested in reading about a midwife. The kind that deliver babies and tend toward more natural approaches to women's health. This "midwife" was far from that.

In this book she doesn't deliver any babies. She did once but it was too expensive, so she only does OB/GYN stuff in a clinic throughout the book. I disagreed with her fundamentally on so many things that couldn't even relate to her. She prescribes drugs at every chance she gets, she self-medicates with alcohol every night because it's the "only thing" that will help her sleep. She has so much debt she can't even see straight and has to cut her employee's benefits, but then describes her HUGE house AND her beautiful lake house which just rubbed me wrong. She tells stories about some of the women she examines which are somewhat interesting, but because of the disconnect I feel with the main character, I didn't feel like it was a satisfying read at all.

This book should have been subtitled "A Gynecologist's Memoir"