Christmas...

Friday I finished my first term of midwifery school...yippee!! Although my courses did not require me to spend 40 hours a week studying like we were told at Frontier Bound, I have never written so many papers in my life. I guess I owe a huge thanks to Claudia and Barb at Graceland U's nursing school for pounding APA into our brains so well that I almost never have to use the manual. So, one term down, eight to go. Hopefully this time next year I will be purposefully catching babies of my own, and giving all the women who dread the mainstream, traditional, medical model of prenatal and delivery care an outlet for a birth that they choose, manage, and control. I can't give enough thanks to the people that have gotten me where I am today...Dillon and my parents for keeping me motivated and encouraged, Cheryl, RN and Darlene, RN for molding me into the nurse that I am, and the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing for still believing that pregnancy and birth can be normal and for re-igniting that burning desire within me to help all women feel empowered and like a goddess. Without FSMFN and the work of Mary Breckinridge, midwifery would be a thing of the past. Here are a few pics of my classmates and I at the late Mary Breckinridge's home at Wendover.

My friend Katie from Washington, D.C. who is definately more "crunchy" than I...(Katie, I no you don't take offense to that!)

The Green Group!! (aka, the non-study, study group!)

I hope you're all doing well. Hang in there and we'll be done before you know it!