Giving moral support to families everywhere

Hey! Come see me over at my newest project: www.yourmoralsupport.com! If you are working with a hospital provider and need warm support and evidence based information to supplement their care, wanting support with parenting, or wanting to process difficult birth experiences, reach out! I am offering virtual support for folks across the country alongside your healthcare professional (or mental health care professional.) “I’m not your care provider—I’m just the moral support!” I love serving families in this way.

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I am no longer routinely catching babies in Vermont. I catch babies at an awesome little birth center in Eastern Washington State now. It has been so amazing working out here in the PNW, but of course I am super sad not to get to be catching your baby Vermonters! If you need help finding a midwife feel free to reach out. There are amazing midwives here! I suggest Threshold Community midwives if you are in Central Vermont—Tessa and Emmy are extraordinary! (8 Generations and Vitality are other favorites if Threshold doesn’t reach your community.) Thanks for a beautiful amazing breathtaking 8 years of babies!

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I have a fiery passion for birth work, families, and babies. I would love the opportunity to talk with you about the birth you are envisioning. I enjoy walking with families in a relationship of equals. I aim to empower you to make the best decisions for your own family by sharing my knowledge of evidence and practice with you. I bring fresh skills, safe care, deep knowledge, and all of my respect and love.

I offer complete pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and newborn care for low-risk normal pregnancies and clients. I have offices just outside of Montpelier (at Green Mountain Community Fitness in Berlin) and near Burlington (at the Grow Family Wellness Center in Essex Junction) and attend births up to a 1.5 hour radius of either town. I do not accept insurance or medicaid. I offer free no-pressure in-office consultations so we can see if we’re a good fit and to talk about what care would look like with me, and I have regular daytime and evening office hours so you don't have to use your time off until after the baby is born.

I have worked hard to build skills and knowledge to provide midwifery model pre-conception care to LGBTQ clients or clients who have struggled with infertility. I offer guidance around assisted reproductive technologies including guidance around home IUI (intrauterine insemination).

There really is no one “kind of person” who plans a homebirth.

Whether you live in an apartment, a yurt, a trailer, or a house, have a pet canary, don’t own a CD player anymore but still have CDs, have no other children or 8, are looking for a job at a bike shop, or work in a cubicle, are so over Zoom, listen to baseball on the radio, don’t enjoy gardening, despise 80’s jeans, love fall, want to be an astronaut when you grow up, won’t grow up, feel like you’re too grown up for all of this, go birding, used to think homebirth was just for “hippies”, or all/none of the above. Homebirth is for people like YOU!

Some of the wonderful Born Homebirth families