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Deb Woolley began her career in 1975 as a nurse in Labor and Delivery in Austin, TX. She was subsequently certified as a Lamaze Childbirth Educator in 1979, and as a Nurse-Midwife in 1983. She has worked as a Nurse-Midwife in several settings, including many years as an educator, both before and after completing her PhD in Nursing in 1988. Her research area is management of labor.
Deb served on the Board of Directors of Lamaze International, including 2 years as President. She also served on the Leadership Team of CIMS (the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services), including 2 years as Chair, and is a co-author of the Mother Friendly Childbirth Initiative. Her service with these organizations took her to Russia in 1996 and Guatemala in 2000, where she taught for 3 weeks in each country.
Deb has 2 children, Katie, who is 30 (born at a hospital in a very satisfying experience using an epidural and attended by a physician), and Rachel, who is 22 (born at home in an equally satisfying unmedicated birth attended by Certified Nurse-Midwife). She currently lives with Oliver, 7, and Daisy Mae, 17, two very outspoken cats whose birth experiences are unknown.
Privately, Deb loves NPR, political and historical non-fiction, murder mysteries, Star Trek and Sudoku for Dummies.
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