How exciting to have Autumn, the heroine from Small-Town Midwife written by Jean C. Gordon a March 2014 release from Love Inspired
Romance .
1. Autumn, tell me
the most interesting thing about you.
Probably, my job. I’m a certified nurse midwife with an Adirondack Mountain practice that primarily does home births.
Probably, my job. I’m a certified nurse midwife with an Adirondack Mountain practice that primarily does home births.
2. What do you do for
fun?
I like to hang out with friends and family. What can I say? I’m easily entertained.
I like to hang out with friends and family. What can I say? I’m easily entertained.
3. What do you put
off doing because you dread it?
Taking on new obstetric patients. I had a birth that had
complications—really not my fault—but now the mother can’t have more children.
They’re friends of mine who wanted a large family. I no longer have the
confidence I should to catch babies.
4. What are you
afraid of most in life?
Right now, being in a position of having to deliver a baby
before I come to peace with my fears.
5. What is the most
important thing to you?
A combination of things: my family, my community, and
proving good prenatal and maternal care to Paradox Lake.
6. Do you read books?
If so, what is your favorite type of book?
I do read. I recently read and d Jennifer Worth’s trilogy Call the Midwife, Shadows of the Workhouse and Farewell
to the East End.
7. If you could
change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
My inclination to be a perfectionist. If I could lose some
of that, I could come to better grips with my fear of catching babies.
8. Do you have a pet?
If so, what is it and why that pet?
No pets.
9. If you could travel back in time, where would you go and
why?
I’d like to go back to the 1920s and travel into the hills
of Kentucky with the midwives of the Frontier Nursing Service to compare their
experiences providing care to mothers and children in that rural area with mine
here in Paradox Lake in the Adirondack Mountains.
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I love the phrase catching babies! I imagine such a career would take unfathomable confidence. Autumn's new fear must really be debilitating.
ReplyDeleteSara -- Thanks for stopping by. My daughter is a midwife and that's the phrase she uses. And having anything go wrong, even if it's quickly remedied, chips away at confidence.
ReplyDeleteGreat interview, Jean. I'll have to get this one for my daughter. She had her last baby so quickly that the midwife didn't make it in time. We were telling people that her hubby delivered the baby, but she corrected us...he just caught it. :)
ReplyDeleteAutumn, you sound like a very smart and compassionate woman. May God bless you with peace of heart and the wisdom to forgive yourself, especially for something you couldn't control.
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