Biography
Carol Falaki
I was a midwife from 1985 until 2004 with a special interest in helping prepare women for childbirth and supporting and promoting “normal” labour.
In 2005 I completed my MSc in continuing professional development with the University of Greenwich.
I enjoy reading, writing, tai chi and chi-gung. I work for two days a week as Research and Development Coordinator for our local Hospital Trust and write whenever I can make the time.
I have written two books, the first a children’s story ‘The Mirror Dragon.’ The other is ‘Birth in the Suburbs’ the first fictional account of childbirth. Birth in the Suburbs is ready to send to agents and publishers.
I enjoy writing poetry and my poem ‘Of a People’s Garden’ was selected for the final of the Birkenhead Park Poetry Competition 2008 to be held 24 May. Another poem ‘Water-birth’ has been provisionally accepted for Mothering magazine.
I am currently working on a writer’s group project ‘Cadets’ with poet and TV presenter John Gorman.
I also enjoy writing sit-com.
I have plans for a collection of short stories with a childbirth theme.
A small selection of my poems are in my poets’ profile on the Write Out Loud website.
Publications
The Midwives Role in Preparing Women for Labour - published in the British Journal of Midwifery in 2003. I conducted an extensive research project on this topic after winning a research award.
The Labour in Motion Study, Duchess of Westminster News 2003
Scarecrows - a flash fiction, The Mental Virus
Snug in Pink bed socks, a poem published in an anthology, Peppermint Dream.