Catching Babies

Ita Gold, M D

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English

Archway Publishing
12 January 2025

Autobiography: science, technology & engineering; Memoirs; Gynaecology & obstetrics

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What if you were pushed into a profession you never chose, yet still found purpose, healing, and love within it?

In Catching Babies, Dr. Ita Gold delivers a candid and deeply moving medical memoir about how she became an OB/GYN, even though she never intended to become a doctor. Raised in a Holocaust survivor family where obligation outweighed ambition, she was pressured into medicine at a time when sexual harassment was ignored and medical education thrived on public humiliation. What followed was a life of relentless endurance: completing clinical rotations while pregnant with twins, navigating single motherhood through an unforgiving residency, and shouldering the weight of caregiving for her own family.

Yet through these trials, Dr. Gold held fiercely to her humanity. In the labor and delivery room, she did not just practice medicine; she became part of her patients' lives, and they became part of hers. With hands skilled in healing and a heart trained by experience, she caught more than babies. She caught meaning. Her story blends brutal honesty with poetic insight and offers a feminist memoir grounded in the realities of women's health, mental health in medicine, and the art of truly seeing patients.

Catching Babies is not just about how doctors are trained. It is about how they become healers. If you are drawn to medical memoirs, women in medicine, or stories of resilience and compassion, this unforgettable journey is for you.

Read Catching Babies and discover the wisdom only a lifetime of delivering life can teach.

By: Ita Gold M D
Imprint: Archway Publishing
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 445g
ISBN: 9781665771269
ISBN 10: 1665771267
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 12 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active