Achive Jan. 29, 2009: One year bdays and wedding plans

Do you recognize this kiddo in the picture? This is Adan, Emi and Brindusa’s little guy who was born last March. Nate and I have become good friends with Adan and his parents :) Adan’s one year birthday is coming up around the corner in March. His parents are considering more children but options for quality prenatal and birth care are limited.

It is tragic that among so many parents, Romania’s lack of adequate prenatal and birth care pushes them away from having future children! I have joined an international network of midwives and midwife students and am working to bring awareness to this issue.

More and more people are asking us (me and Nate) what are plans are for the future in regards to Romania. We will be getting married March, 1 2010 in Bucharest. In June we will most likely return to Seattle for my clinical midwifery placement.At this point my long term desire is for ROMANIANS to change ROMANIA and to play a role in empowering women, families and midwives to bring change to this place. What this will look like remains to be written by God...

Please excuse any gaps in the blogging and newslettering that may occur as I finish up my grad school quarter, help my mom recover from surgery, plan a wedding, get married, go on a honeymoon and oh yeah.... attend a home birth! My Swiss midwife friend and I have officially committed to attending a client at home for her birth- I promise a blog and picture to follow!