Granny Midwife

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Granny Midwife

A midwife extant in rural US during the 1930s and 1940s, who had little formal education, and generally learned her trade through experience or through apprenticeship from women of the previous generation

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midwife			She then recalled being told by her own family that a granny midwife had delivered her back in Meriwether County in 1923; a common practice in Georgia into the 1950s, and continued into later decades in rural areas of the South (see Marie Campbell (1946). Enduring echoes: Corine Warren--born 1923 by Cannon, Rose B. / Georgia Nursing After a general introduction explaining the ways in which society has constructed the granny midwife - both the real and the image - Chapter One carefully historicizes European and American lay midwifery and argues that the granny midwife (even more so than midwives of other ethnic backgrounds) was forced into virtual extinction as a direct result of twentieth-century changes in medicine and state regulations. Granny Midwives and Black Women Writers: Double-Dutched Readings by Blockett, Kimberly / African American Review			grana Grand Basset Griffon Vendeen Grand Bleu de Gascoigne grand mal grand mal seizure grand multipara grand rounds Grand Traverse disease GRANDDAD Syndrome granddam granddaughter cyst Grandfather Clause grandfather device Grandfathered Device grandiose Grandiosity grandparent generation grandsire granisetron granisetron hydrochloride Granit granivorous granny bonnets Granny Dump granny knot Granny Midwife Granola grant Grant's capsule granul- granula iridica granular granular cast granular cell tumor granular conjunctivitis granular degeneration granular dystrophy granular endoplasmic reticulum granular induration granular layer granular leukoblast granular leukocyte granular ophthalmia granularity granulatio granulation granulation promotion granulation tissue granule granule cell Granules			Granjard, Henri Granjas Marinas San Bernardo Granjon, Robert Granma Granma (Cuba) Grannam grannie grannie grannies grannies grannom granny granny granny bond granny bond granny bonds granny bonds granny bonnets Granny Dump Granny Dumping granny flat granny flat granny flat granny flats granny flats granny flats granny knot granny knot granny knots granny knots Granny Midwife Granny Smith Granny smith apple Granny smith apple Granny smith apples Granny Smiths granny woman Granny's bend granny's bonnets grannyish grano- granoblastic fabric Granodiorite Granodiorite granofels granogabbro granola granola granola bar granola bar Granola bars Granola bars Granola, Oats, Raisins, and Peanuts granolith granolithic granolithic concrete granolithic finish granophyre granophyre granophyric granophyric

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