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Running for Secretary of the ACNM Board of Directors!
Calling all midwives! I am running for Secretary of the ACNM Board of Directors, as is another great candidate, and there are also elections for President-Elect, Region II Representative, Region V...
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Honesty
Someone recently asked me if I like what I do. I think I’ve finally perfected the response: Love it. When it’s tough, it’s the toughest thing in the world. When it’s great, it’s extraordinary.
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Monthly Chai Date
January, to me, is a beginning of something that cannot be denied, avoided, or skirted along. It feels both expansive for the year ahead, but also a slowly accumulating and manageable checklist that...
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Running for Secretary of the ACNM Board of Directors – Get out the vote...
Calling all midwives! As many of you know, and as I have posted before, I am running for Secretary of the ACNM Board of Directors! It’s time for me to stop being humble, and start campaigning! A...
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Monthly chai date
February: a month intentional in its pronunciation and annual final day inclusion – to leap or not to leap is never a question, it’s a plan. For me, this has been a month of mis-intentions, so I feel...
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Midwives, have you voted?!?! Get on it!
This is my final push toward the current midwife elections for President-Elect, Secretary, Region II and Region V representatives. By the way, did I mention that I’m running for Secretary? I’m sure I...
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Secretary!
Many thanks to all of the midwives who voted in the recent ACNM election! As of the June American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM) Annual Meeting, I will begin a three year term as Secretary of the...
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Monthly Chai Date
March. Outside of its use as a monthly designation, it is a word indicating purpose. One marches for a reason, with intention and individuality and community. A march exists to advocate and advertise...
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Monthly chai date
I have a few things on my mind, which I would bring up in line before we even sit down to talk. First, I have started drinking coffee. For the first time in life, I have stepped away from chai (other...
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#TBT – The Collective Someone
#TBT – Originally Posted February 21, 2014 … I took care of someone today. In processing my chronic evening exhaustion, craving of therapeutic glasses of wine, and inability to focus when out in the...
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#TBT: Layers
Originally posted 27 August 2014. Layers Sheets. Air. Water, soap, water. Jeans, shirt, shoes. ID, pager. Air. Shirt, scrubs, compression socks. Long white lab coat. Squeaky shoes, squeaky floor. Glow...
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Monthly chai date
July was a month of catching up: with myself, with deadlines, with life around me. And suddenly, here’s the middle of August, demanding sleep and reflection and relaxation. None of which I am...
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My Fifteen Minutes
Every organization in healthcare is in a marriage with the “numbers”: gotta get those “numbers” up, need to streamline processes to increase the “numbers,” did you meet your “numbers” this month… (I...
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Birth
To #176*: Thank you for being patient with the magnesium, I hope you heard me through the fuzziness and the fog of that medicine, telling you how wonderful a job you were doing. I knew the strength...
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Monthly chai date
August, for me, was a month of overlapping in comfortably simple and beautifully complex ways: autumn breezes on tail-end summer mornings, finishing hours at one job while starting into another, red...
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Birth
When I first heard your moans and grunts, I wasn’t sure I’d make it. But I did, with a smile on my face, knowing a little bit more than I did before. The first time I ever experienced that dangerous,...
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Birth
I wasn’t there when your baby was born. I was there all day, trying my best to support your process, elevate your voice, ease your fears, and speak my kindest words and strongest truths, as your baby...
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A home within each other
Today, I go to work as a midwife, humbled to care for and serve communities on the South Side of Chicago. I do so purposefully and intentionally, seeking to bring holistic, respectful, evidence-based,...
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Monthly chai date
Countless early mornings and late nights, I’ve sat down to type out what has been on my mind lately in feminism and midwifery, how I’m pondering current events and what’s to come, and new parallel...
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She saw me.
Yesterday, in clinic, she saw me. I was running through my day, busy, too many on the schedule, short on fellow staff, and not enough time for anything. She was late for her appointment, by a lot. I...
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