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I am a Certified Nurse Midwife. I am creating this blog as a way to journal my births - for my own personal and professional growth and to share the beauty of normal birth. My faith walk is very much tied up with midwifery. Midwifery has taught me just about everything I've learned about God. Update-now that it's been nearly 2 years since God allowed me to practice as a midwife, I have found that He reveals Himself in MANY ways if we seek Him. And he has been teaching me to seek Him, regardless of what work he calls me to. New update, I've been working as a "real" nurse midwife for a year and this blog has "morphed" into sharing my journey through life, whether it be from home, work, family. LIFE teaches us, not just our life work.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Midwife Musings

Out of Africa

I returned home from Mauritania, Africa 48 hours ago with a heart of gratitude. As I suspected it would, Africa changed me more than I changed it. I am so grateful that I had the experience.

I am now working at Sage Femme Birth Center in Kansas City, KS. It is so hard to turn potential homebirth clients away after attending homebirths for the last 9 years. But with the loss of the collaborating physician, that door has been closed. I am grateful for the position at SFBC so I can keep up my skills in an environment that doesn't kill my spirit, as the hospital would.

More on Mauritania later. I'm still wiped out but wanted to report that I'm still alive and well.

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