The Grand Marais Public Library is set to host Kim Woodward Osterholzer, midwife and author,

who will discuss her recent book, a memoir of her experience as a midwife who's caught over

500 babies since 1993. Osterholzer ushers readers behind the doors of Amish homes as she

recounts her lively, entertaining, and life-changing adventures learning the heart and art and craft

of midwifery.

In A Midwife in Amish Country, Osterholzer shares the lively, entertaining, and life-changing

adventures of her nine-year apprenticeship. Every story is unique, whether it involves wild

ambulance rides or halting the hemorrhaging of a mom in labor.

Osterholzer works around the clock counseling, helping, and encouraging expectant mothers.

Throughout her journey, she often faced unforeseen and seemingly insurmountable obstacles, all the while balancing managing her home and birthing her own children.

Though she struggled with self-doubt at the weight of this calling God had placed on her life ---

responsibility for the safety of a mother and newborn--- she truly began to passionately embrace

it as she was exposed to the beauty and magnificence of birth. In a Midwife in Amish Country,

Kim Woodard Osterholzer encourages and inspires each of us to live out our destiny with

urgency regardless of the obstacles we may face along the way.