Dear Readers,
I'm happy to report good progress on the book and have two requests of you:
1) I'm looking to recruit a focus group to pre-review the finished manuscript and give gut-wrentchingly honest feedback. (I will most likely move ahead with self-publishing- I have an editor, I'm looking for feedback on content.) You do not have to be in my physical vicinity. I will email it out. You have to commit to reading it and giving your feedback. You'll also have to be willing to sign a confidentiality agreement. Just respond to this post if you are interested. The manuscripts will go out after Christmas, and the focus groups (facilitated by someone other than me) will be held (via email/yahoo group) in mid January. I'm looking for about 20-25 folks regionally, nationally, and internationally.
2) I'm looking for homebirth couples due next Spring and Summer to test my workshops on. These folks DO need to be in the Greater Kansas City vicinity or be willing to travel to my locale (I have access to very low cost accommodations). The weekend long workshop will be free and held in January (date tba). I will take 4-6 couples. Using my book as the text, the workshop will prepare them for a homebirth. This test workshop will require extensive feedback as well. I also plan a test workshop for doulas and childbirth educators on homebirth preparation, but I have enough local folks to use for that one.
Thanks everyone for your feedback and responsiveness. I know I've been like a cat hiding her kittens about the book, but I've felt an intense need to write in isolation. I'm just about ready to come out of hiding.
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- LaborPayne
- LaborPayne has a masters in nursing education and works as a nursing instructor teaching maternal infant health. She is a lactation consultant candidate and a CNM (certified nurse midwife)student at Kansas University. Upon completion of her midwifery studies, she plans to pursue a MPH/PhD dual degree. She has been a doula and childbirth educator for 20 years, a nurse for 12 years, worked labor and delivery for 8 years, and has taught for 3 1/2 years. She owns Perinatal ReSource an education, training and consulting firm, and The CPR Lady, a safety training firm. In addition to authoring this blog, she is an editor for Clinical Lactation Journal, and sits on the board of CIMS, Coalition to Improve Maternity Services. She also sits on her local FIMR Board (fetal infant mortality review) as well as her city and state breastfeeding committees. She presents nationally on perinatal issues. Her career goals include decreasing perinatal morbidity and increasing lactation rates in the African American community through published investigative research and application of evidence based clinical practice. She also has plans to open a community based birth center in the urban core.
9 comments:
OOOOO OOOOOO OOOOOO!
Raises hand and asked if she can be the Canadian recruit?!!!!
PUHLEEEEZE!!!!!
ahem... I will beg if need be!
Welcome aboard MM,
Just send me an email at laborpayne@yahoo.com so that I'll have your contact info, and I'll be in contact next month.
Thanks for volunteering.
I'd be honored to read and give feedback, Sherry. Feel free to email me at president@friendsofmomidwives.org.
I too would love to read your book Sherry. You already have my email.
I would be happy to read your work. Let me know if you're interested.
-The lady with The Birth Project :)
count me in!
midwife1@cox.net
p.s. where's that video/documentary I've been wsiting for???
hi sherry, id love to read it too.
xx
I'd be happy to - I'm in Aus.
I'd love to do some extra curricular reading (ie, NOT speech therapy related)! Also, I'd like some more details about this workshop...I just made it to 19 days of high temps, so I'll be expecting somewhere mid July to mid August.
Angela
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