I grew up in Maryland and lived on the East Coast until I moved here to Austin in July 2020. I want to share my journey with you because it will help you understand my approach to caring for you and your family. 

I’ve been obsessed with birth since I was little. I wasn't playing kitchen, I was playing “I’m  having babies” – partly because of Dr Quinn Medicine woman and A Baby Story on TLC, but mostly because my mother talked about her births and just always said our bodies were made to do it. She was actually really lucky she didn’t get a c section with her first child, my older sister. She labored for about 36 hours, unmedicated. Luckily, an old doctor was on the day she went into labor who kept saying everything was fine. She just had a “lazy baby in there.” My mom had a successful, unmedicated, vaginal birth. The next day my mom’s OB, who had been on vacation when my mom went into labor, came into the room crying and profusely apologizing that my mom had been “allowed” to labor that long. She told my mom she would’ve taken her back for a c section to save her from that long labor (which, by the way, is totally normal for a first time mom). My mom told her OB “well then I’m glad you weren’t here.” And that is where I get my badassness from and my fire about leaving birth alone. My mom had three unmedicated births in the hospital setting and breastfeed. She always talked about birth and breastfeeding as a normal, natural process that our bodies were designed for. This helped foster my trust in birth and our bodies from a young age.

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