Love and support are at the heart of what it means for me to be a midwife.

I hold myself to a high standard of care that includes compassion, kindness, integrity, and thoroughness. I see my role as helping parents make choices, safeguarding the safety and normalcy of birth, and helping to create a positive experience for the mother and baby.

I am drawn to all aspects of this work including being with families, providing excellent health care, listening, educating and supporting. I enjoy working with all kinds of families and like getting to know the babies.

My training to become a midwife began at Birthingway College in March of 1998. Birthingway College is the only college in the country offering degrees in midwifery to out-of-hospital providers. Coursework included classes in the care of normal and complicated pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Other course work included herbs and other alternative/complimentary modalities, breastfeeding, care and understanding of infancy, and many other classes. We had hands on training beginning with the most basic skills and working up to suturing and care of the mother and baby during emergencies.

Of course, the essential core of my becoming a midwife were my apprenticeships. I began going to births after one term at Birthingway, in the fall of 1998. I continued going to births throughout my schooling, other than a maternity leave when my daughter was born in 2001. I trained under the kind guidance of seven midwives in six different practices that included home and birth center births, and urban, suburban and rural areas. As a student I attended approximately 70 births.

In August of 2003 I sat for and passed the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM) exam and became a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM). I also received my Bachelors of Science in Midwifery (BSM) degree from Birthingway.

I have also been deeply touched by my own experience of pregnancy, birth, and mothering. It has only reinforced for me how important this kind of care is. I would be happy to share more with you about my own experience as we get to know one another.

I am very grateful to the midwives and families who so graciously included me in their lives and births so that I could fulfill my dream of being a midwife.

It is my hope that the art of midwifery can help to make the world a better place. I do this work with the intention of helping each family with the hope that through gentle birth we will live in a gentler world.