Philosophy

For over a decade, I have had the great honor of working with expecting, laboring and postpartum families. I have come to appreciate through experience the simplicities, intricacies, and many presentation in between that birth can present uniquely different for each individual family.

There has been countless “take away lessons” I have learned in my tenure in birth work and paramount to all else, I have found; “there is no place for personal judgement in a person’s birth.” I firmly believe there is no “always right” or “definite” answer to use as a blanket formula when approaching birth. Rather, we must hold space and allow each birthing family to encompass how birth unfolds for them.

Education and Experience

My journey into midwifery started well before my last 3.5 years of training collectively with Debra Studey, CPM, LM, and Christy Feiker, CPM, LM. My love and passion for midwifery has been birthed from my experiences and education from: Pre-med undergraduate degree, followed by a nursing degree, private practice lactation work as an IBCLC, birth doula, childbirth educator, placenta encapsulator, healthcare missionary work in Kenya, community collaborator, birth activist, and through the birth of my own two beautiful children. It is all of this that has been the foundation to where I have started and what is the ground work for Birth in Color Midwifery. As a result, I have had the pleasure to be, humbly invited to more than 500 families’ most sacred space to witness as they embrace allowing their birth experience to become their own…