RIVERINA MIDWIVES - FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE PLAINS

Illustrated throughout with photographs and line drawings.

Riverina Midwives – from the Mountains to the Plains collects stories of the hard-work, courage, improvisation, humour and grief which accompanied the settlement of one of Australia’s richest rural areas. It is a tribute to the women who went with their men into shepherds’ huts, fettlers’ camps and settlers’ tents, bark shelters and iron sheds, and to the women who helped them to bring generations of healthy young Australians into the world.

All profits of this book go to the Asian Aid Organisation to assist in alleviating the extreme suffering of the women of Nepal, women who have sustained third degree prolapses from carrying heavy loads, multiple pregnancies, birthing very young and during childbirth. They require major surgery to correct their problems. Many are mourning the stillbirth of their only or a subsequent child. They have been made outcastes of their society. Through the Asian Aid Organisation they now have hope of obtaining surgery to correct their injuries.