Waiting for the Kick
A Midwife's Grief and Rebirth in Africa
$29.75
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
16 June 2026
Summary
After heartbreak in Pennsylvania, a forty-five-year-old widow journeys to Sudan’s war zone, where a chaotic maternity ward teaches her a new kind of strength—and becomes her path to healing.
When Sheila’s husband died, grief didn’t just visit—it swallowed her whole. She didn’t want casseroles or kind words. She wanted out.
Broken and carrying a battered rucksack, she joined a humanitarian mission in war-torn South Sudan, where gunfire drove her under delivery-…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798896363309 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Sheila Kimble-Haas |
| Publisher: | She Writes Press |
| Imprint: | She Writes Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 16 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
“Sheila Kimble Haas has written a heartfelt memoir about exploring grief and reinvention through the lens of her humanitarian work as a midwife and family nurse practitioner in Africa. Waiting for the Kick is an inspiring and satisfying read about how moving through grief reshaped the author’s understanding of her past and her desires for the future.”—Jennifer Haupt, author of In the Shadow of 10,000 Hills
“A striking book about life and death, love and loss, and birth and healing. Kimble-Haas loses her husband to pancreatic cancer and, unmoored by grief, joins Doctors Without Borders and takes her midwifery skills to Sudan. There, the work stimulates waves of grief and healing, creating a rhythm of recovery. Readers will be enriched by joining her on this epic adventure.” —Theresa Brown, RN, New York Times best-selling author of The Shift and Healing
Sheila Kimble-Haas
Sheila Kimble-Haas, a nurse practitioner and midwife trained at the University of Pennsylvania, has spent her career caring for marginalized communities—from Native American reservations to Arctic villages to African nations through humanitarian work. After more than ten years in France, she returned to New Mexico, where the desert’s stark beauty, a community of friends, and enough solitude inspired her to put her stories on the page. But her restless spirit is calling her back to France, carrying the desert’s lessons and a renewed hunger for the journey ahead.
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