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| Photo by Michelle Sanders CPM |
This past week in the state of Indiana, the bill to license Certified Professional Midwives (CPM's) was signed into law by our Governor. I did not attend, because I had been up all night with a birth in Michigan at the Birth center with one of my favorite clients/family--- who travels from over 2 hours away to use my services! I am so blessed!
I want to thank everyone who has helped with this process, who has wrote letters to get this bill thru, who has made phone calls and contacted their elected officials. Thank you. It is you the consumer who they will listen to, and so it is you the consumer that made the difference.
I am sooo thankful for those who have stuck by my side thru this very tough year, who have and continue to use my services. As a midwife, it is sort of like a marriage. We make an agreement of service to our clients, and they also make an agreement to us-we build trust, a relationship, and when it continues birth after birth, thru the tough times, and easy times, it is so beautiful. I thank you for your loyalty. I love what I do, and I love my clients!
Very few have left my services, so for all of you who have stayed by me, used my services, and are still planning on using my services, I thank you!! I have been so blessed by the phone calls, letters and support. It is really wonderful and needed-in many ways that I can not even share or tell you, but YHWH knows! Thank you! I can not express enough how very much I appreciate you sticking with me, using my care for your birth, and support thur the process of getting this bill passed. Your comments and letters brighten my days, and when I have those days I am down, I re-read those messages, and the LORD uses them to lift me up.
The birth center up in Michigan is going very well, and those who have traveled to use its facilities, have been truly blessed! Many have said, where ever I am-they will go, because they want my services and that is more important to them than where they deliver. I thank each of you for that! That alone shows the support I have had this past year. The birth center has held its own, and we pray it continues to grow and is blessed. GOD has a calling for me with the service of women, and as long as HE has called me, I will go....
Blessings to you!
Ireena
