Mindful Midwifery Presents: The Labor Behind Labor

From an outsider's perspective, midwifery sounds like a fascinating profession. But what does it feel like to juggle life's demands in a career that doesn't allow you to have a bad day? This is an insider's view of the labor behind labor.

Join Katie O'Brien, Certified Nurse Midwife, for frank conversations with frontline midwives about the joys, challenges, and politics surrounding the work of midwifery while trying to maintain a quality life away from the job.

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Carrie

Carrie loves world travel, books, live music, dancing, animals and nature. Her bucket list is overflowing and includes swimming with sperm whales in Dominica, hiking the West Highland Way, living at an artist’s retreat center to finish writing her book, and finding a 17th century coin with her metal detector. She and her husband live in a home they built by themselves with two dogs and two cats in the woods. In her spare time, she has worked as a midwife for nearly 25 years in various settings throughout Delaware, including at Planned Parenthood and at the Perdue chicken factory women’s clinic. She has precepted over 35 midwifery students, most of whom have become her friends and colleagues.

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Carrie