Armstrong, Penny (1946–)

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Armstrong, Penny (1946–)

American nurse and midwife. Name variations: Penny Bradbury Armstrong. Born Penelope Bradbury, Jan 23, 1946, in Aroostook County, Maine; m. Richard Armstrong.

Directed drug-abuse education council as regional health planner in Portland, ME (early 1970s); received certificate in midwifery from Glasgow College of Midwifery in Scotland (1978); as director of Dry Hill Clinic (Gordonville, PA), attended an estimated 1,400 births primarily in Amish and Mennonite communities of Lancaster County, PA; (with Sheryl Feldman) authored A Midwife's Story (1986) and A Wise Birth: Bringing Together the Best of Natural Childbirth with Modern Medicine (1990); served as family-planning practitioner (Houlton, ME), staff nurse-midwife in group at Bassett Hospital (Cooperstown, NY), and project director of Behavioral Science and Community Health Curriculum Project at University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine (Biddeford, ME).

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