Meet Your Midwives

MIDWIFE

My path to becoming a midwife was a long one. In my first pregnancy in 2000 my friend’s mom gave me a copy of Spiritual Midwifery. She and her friends has used this as a guide book through each other’s births when they were new midwives. There were notes scribbled in the margins and the spine cracked from use. I remember re-reading the birth stories and soaking in every word. From that moment on I knew I wanted to be a midwife. 

I had my second baby three years later, and then began attending births as a doula. My children grew and as they entered grade school I enrolled in the National College of Midwifery and started an apprenticeship with a busy home birth practice in San Francisco, Rites of Passage, with Nancy Myrick, CNM, and Ami Burnham, CPM LM, RN. I studied at The Farm and at the Kafoutine Clinic in Senegal. In 2012, nine years after attending my first birth as a doula and after three years of midwifery school, I earned my LM from the Medical Board of California and started Mothercraft Midwifery. 

My homebirth practice has rooted me in my community. I love seeing babies grow into children, people growing into families, women grow more into themselves. I see how midwifery care and birth are a time when we can connect more to ourselves and through that, our power.

I truly believe that when we change the way we see birth, we change the way we birth. So in 2015 we opened The Root, a shared working space devoted to midwifery, where we can bring birth into the open and normalize it. Liz and I see our clients here for prenatal care, and then attend births at home, with follow up care mostly in home, but wrapping it back up at The Root where we started. 

Through the years I have continued to collect birth stories, amounting a wealth of trust and love for women and babies, and their ability to birth. If you’d like to read some birth stories you can find some here, written by the families themselves so you can hear their voices and learn more about what home birth is really all about.