She now has more than half a dozen novels across two series. Patricia published “The Midwife of Hope River,” her debut novel, in 2012 and has never looked back since. She had always dreamed of one day becoming an author and now had the time to do it. While many of her patients were not happy with the decision, she had made her decision as she wanted to try her hand at something else. Since Patricia Harman could no longer afford it, she quit doing deliveries. In 2003, the midwifing industry was thrown a curveball as Obstetrics liability insurance went through the roof. From their practice in Morgantown, West Virginia they made it their mission in life to bring babies into the world and to care for women. In 1998, she left the world of government practice and went private with her OB/Gyn husband Tom. In the mid eighties she gathered her children, a yowling cat and her husband and went north to join the University of Minnesota for her MSN in Nurse-Midwifery.įor the past two decades, Harman worked on the Ohio State University, West Virginia University and Cape Western Reserve University faculties as the resident nurse-midwife.
From then on, her passion for babies, delivering and caring for women led her towards becoming a Registered Nurse.
When she came back, she would become a founding member of the local cooperative of midwives. Not long after that, she decided to head to Austin Texas to be trained to become a home birth midwife. She was then living with a friend in a commune when she unexpectedly went into labor and Harman had to deliver her first baby. It was during the 1970s that Patricia went to her first home birth. In their new commune they grew and stored their own food, dug a pond, and built a log house. In 1974, they bought a piece of farmland with several like minded friends in Roane County, West Virginia. Harman would then spend more than ten years in the seventies and sixties as youth living in the communities in Tolstoy Farm a commune in Washington and several others in Minnesota and Connecticut.ĭuring the Vietnam War, she and Tom Harman, her husband, traveled a lot across the US as they hitchhiked looking for a place to call home. She would graduate to midwife-nurse as she taught at a community hospital birthing center and in teaching hospitals. She started out as a lay midwife, a job at which she delivered babies on communal farms and cabins in West Virginia. The author spent more than three decades working as a midwife for women. Patricia Harman is a children’s fiction and historical fiction author best known for the “Hope River” series of novels.
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