Our Talk-Back will consist of local BOLD professionals who are active in the childbirth field. We look forward to a positive discussion addressing the issues pertinent and important to Tennessee women regarding their health care during the childbearing years. We hope to touch on such topics as: local birth options, the safety of home birth, health rates, and mother-friendly health care.

Our panel will be comprised of a local home birth midwife, a hospital-based midwife, a pediatrician, and a doula. Please join us after Saturday night's play to discuss reactions to the play, what birth issues exist in our own community, and how we can create change.

Kimberly Spencer is a certified professional midwife who attends home births in the Nashville area. She offers holistic, family-centered midwifery care and home birth focused not only on the natural process of giving birth, but the creation of empowered mothers, strong families, and loving bonds between parent and child.She holds a Bachelor's of Science in Human Ecology, has studied nursing through Vanderbilt University, has held a position on the Board of Directors for the Tennessee Midwive's Association, and has recently become active as the Association's President.

Professor Mavis Schorn is the Program Director of the Vanderbilt Nurse-Midwifery Program. Professor Schorn joined the faculty at Vanderbilt in 2002 with extensive experience in clinical practice in the under served as well as private practice areas. She participated in the initial development of the nurse-midwifery program at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Galveston, Texas, while on the faculty at UTHSC in Houston. She was also the founding member of the first collaborative model hospital based private practice in Houston, Texas.

Micky Jones is the owner of 9 Months & Beyond, LLC in Spring Hill, TN. Her career began when she graduated with a degree in Consumer and Family Sciences, with an emphasis in Child Development and Family Studies. She is not a La Leche League Leader, trained childbirth educator, postpartum doula, Certified Lactation Educator, Certified Labor Doula, Certified Happiest Baby Educator, and, perhaps most qualifying, the mother of 3 young children.