Catching Babies

About the Book

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.

About the Author

Dr. Gold went through the “Flexmed” program, a six year premed/ medical program. She then completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology having been chief resident her senior year. She went on to practice for 38 years in private practice as a board-certified OB-GYN in various settings. She received the APGO (American Professors in Obstetrics and Gynecology) award for medical student teaching in 1997. She was a local educator about women’s health and menopause. She was voted by her colleagues as a “Top Doctor” in Gynecology in the her metro area in their city magazine several times. She also has done physician and executive coaching and has been an advisor for “Safe Ground” a local mental health agency.