Rupa Patel: “We straddle those worlds”: Narrative 10 of the Marathon Maternity Oral History ProjectInterview date: November 22, 2008

One important factor that seems to guide learners in their individually different approaches is their understanding of the learning process, their conceptualisation of

The doctor informed me that I was going to have to fnd some place to have my child because the surgeon—I’m not saying he wasn’t good, but the joke was that by the time he fnished

You have the ones that want to deliver in their small town; they don’t think that it’s such a high-risk thing to have a baby, you know.. Better chance of dying from a heart

We screen women early in their pregnancy for the status of “low risk.” Women who are determined not to be “low risk”—I don’t want to say “high risk”—are informed

If you’re gonna be pregnant in Marathon, try and plan to have your baby in Marathon because the doctors are great, and that’s it. Even though I had to go to Thunder Bay,

I think that mothers as in general, they really need to know that importance of actually, you know, feel that life-giving, that birth, and really make that connection with

They tell me, they says, “You know, you’re something, Granny, the way you read the Bible and all that.” I’m a pray- ing woman, that’s what I am.. I only went to grade

Although both definitions are technically correct, the definition of sphericity in terms of orthogonal contrasts is generally superior because it (a) generalizes to multi-factor