My Philosophy On Birth
You’ll stop fighting the waves when you realize you’re the ocean.
For millennia, women have had intrinsic knowledge of how to safely and effectively birth our babies - and obstetrical birth practitioners have spent the last 115 years doing everything in their power to completely erase our confidence in our own bodies, to replace it with fear and distrust. Hospitals push augmentations for their convenience to maximize patient turnover, and it’s leaving us with birth trauma, permanent injuries, debilitating medical debt, and a horrifying maternal mortality rate — especially for women of color. 80% of maternal deaths in the United States are preventable.
We deserve to understand what our options are, their risks and benefits, the alternatives, and the time to consider them.
We deserve advocacy, education, support, and encouragement.
We deserve better than bare-minimum-at-best care.
We deserve to feel safe, heard, and respected.
It wasn’t always like this. And it doesn’t have to stay this way.
The midwifery model of care, where physiological birth is the standard, has completely changed my view about what birth could and should look like. I’d love to talk to you about it!
The most important thing you can do to prepare for birth is heal the parts of you that learned it wasn’t safe to trust your body.
-Demi Betschart
Hi there, mama!
My name is Jordan Tomkinson, and I’m so excited to be part of your birth team! While this page is primarily my birth photography portfolio and blog, I am also a Phase 2 Student Midwife and Birth Assistant with Utah Birth Suites, a Certified Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Advanced Provider, and a Certified Victim Advocate through the Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault.
When I’m not behind the camera, I keep myself busy with my husband Chris, and our 3 awesome kids. In my downtime, I enjoy knitting, crochet, drawing, painting, collecting my favorite albums on vinyl, running Dungeons & Dragons one-shots for friends, getting about 20 hugs a day from my youngest, hanging out online with my husband’s Twitch stream community, cackling together at TikToks, and taking our kids on spontaneous overnight adventure trips.
