This is a very important letter relevant to any midwives who would like to mission in Haiti. This was posted on another midwife's facebook page, and she requested that everyone post it so all can see. If you are looking to help those in Haiti for a short-term mission trip, this may be for you.

To see the letter go to my facebook page.

Today I received my dopplar!

I am both excited and ambivalent, but today I received my dopplar. I wonder how many mamas will want to use this instrument in a home birth? In the hospital they strap you up with the fetal heart monitor, and after studying about ultrasound in my childbirth education training classes, I have always wondered if the dopplar would affect the baby in the same way. I bought this instrument because of my difficulty in using the fetoscope. My ears with age are not the same as they used to be, and hearing on the fetoscope has been very difficult. I guess I will just have to tell the mamas that I take care of that I will need to use the dopplar for their births. Still, I feel like I have taken one step forward to having my own practice! Very exciting!!!

Wise Woman. Proverbs 31, verses 10-31

Wise Woman

Who can find a virtuous wife?

For her worth is far above rubies.

The heart of her husband safely trusts her;

So he will have no lack of gain.

She does him good and not evil

All the days of her life.

She seeks wool and flax,

And willingly works with her hands.

She is like the merchant ships,

She brings her food from afar.

She also rises while it is yet night,

And provides food for her household,

And a portion for her maidservants.

She considers a field and buys it;

From her profits she plants a vineyard.

She girds herself with strength,

And strengthens her arms.

She perceives that her merchandise is good,

And her lamp does not go out by night.

She stretches out her hands to the distaff,

And her hand holds the spindle.

She extends her hand to the poor,

Yes, she reaches out her hands to the needy.

She is not afraid of snow for her household,

For all her household is clothed with scarlet.

She makes tapestry for herself;

Her clothing is fine linen and purple.

Her husband is known in the gates.

When he sits among the elders of the land.

She makes linen garments and sells them,

and supplies sashes for the merchants.

Strength and honor are her clothing;

She shall rejoice in time to come.

She opens her mouth with wisdom,

And on her tongue is the law of kindness.

She watches over the ways of her household,

And does not eat the bread of idleness.

Her children rise up and call her blessed;

Her husband also, and he praises her;

"Many daughters have done well,

But you excel them all."

Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain,

But a woman who fears the Lord, she

shall be praised.

Give her of the fruit of her hands,

And let her own works praise her in the gates.

Proverbs 31, verses 10-31.