I believe birth is a sacred, transformational, empowering journey, and each woman on that journey deserves to feel like her intuition matters and is respected by her providers and support team.

It’s time for women to reclaim our power through birth.

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, and replace it with fear and distrust. These efforts have not only resulted in an over-medicalized birth model where hospital administrators and insurance companies profit thousands of dollars per birth and leave families with substantial medical debt, but it has led to a maternal mortality crisis where 80% of maternal deaths are completely preventable, and black women are 3 times more likely than white women to die in childbirth, while our medical institutions prioritize unsafe nurse-to-patient ratios, and push excessive and unnecessary interventions to make labor progress more quickly.

This was a hard realization as someone who had dreamed of being a Labor & Delivery nurse for half my life. I’d told myself that when all three of my children were in school full time, I would enroll in nursing school, get my RN, and apply for Labor & Delivery nursing positions. I couldn’t wait to help mothers bring their babies into the world! But I have also come to the realization that my journey does not include taking on tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt, to become part of the machine that will stand by and do nothing while a woman bleeds out in the hospital parking lot with a ruptured ectopic pregnancy.

I believe every woman deserves to be supported through her birth with tools and techniques that have worked for millennia.

I believe every woman deserves to feel empowered to make informed choices that feel right to her, with confidence that every person in the room supports her decisions and trusts her intuition, and our highest priority is her wellbeing.

I believe every woman deserves to be in control of what happens to her body and her baby.