![]() As a result we became more like family as we deepened our friendship. They visited twice daily to check on baby and mama for last four weeks to make sure we were healthy and safe. Our risk factors changed at 37 weeks and the result was the difficult decision to switch to a hospital birth. Carol and Mayumi helped council, support and hold space for us as we wrestled with our plans and contingency plans for birth. This pregnancy brought an unexpected issue of a low lying placenta that refused to move significantly even as we approached the end of the pregnancy, we were devastated. We already had a special connection with Mayumi because she caught our second child, as we got to know Carol we knew they were a great match for us. Mayumi and Carol were there for us as we prepared to bring our third baby earthside. They truly support women coming into their power and believe wholeheartedly in undisrupted, physiological birth. I will be forever grateful that they witnessed me. My birth was amazing, intimate, and healing. Everything was on our timeline - there was no rushing or pressure. When I welcomed my daughter earth side, they smiled knowingly at me.Īfterwards, they observed my newborn, brought me bone broth, laughed with my older children, and stayed with me until I felt sorted. They were hands off as we had discussed and held space for my family and I to do our own birth dance. Their energy was calm and reassuring, and not at all disruptive. When I let them know it was time and I needed them, they arrived within 15 minutes. I began leaking fluid in the middle of the night a few days before my guess date and they were very responsive. I feel like they really got to know me and my family in the weeks leading up to my birth. They asked me how I was feeling, how my relationships were, what my goals and fears were. Their children played with my children during my prenatal visits. This was my first homebirth, but third child, and the prenatal care was unmatched. They were such a powerful energy and presence - professional and helpful, loving and attentive. She loves nothing more than holding space for families as they navigate the expansive process that is birth and parenthood.Ĭarol and Mayumi attended the birth of my daughter in December 2020. As a midwife she seeks to support families with a deep reverence for their personal preferences. Like Carol, she believes birth is a normal event and works best when undisturbed. For this reason, she sees birth as extremely personal and political act. The societal context in which we birth is largely influential. She received her BA in Sociology from Barnard College/Columbia University and her studies in sociology also inform her understanding of birth. She has spent the last 20 years learning about holistic health, herbal medicine and energy work and brings this knowledge to the practice. She began her formal apprenticeship with midwife,Terri Simmons in 2016. In 2010 she started attending births as labor support person and began studying midwifery with midwives in the area. She has had the honor and pleasure of serving families in Philadelphia and the surrounding areas for the last decade. Mayumi is a mother, healer, traditional midwife and radical feminist. She works with people who are looking for a normal, undisturbed, blissful and autonomous pregnancy and birth experience. Carol believes normal birth is not an illness, ailment or emergency and, therefore, does not require medical care, treatment or hospitalization.Ĭarol provides care to families wishing to birth on their own terms, in their own home. Although she is trained in NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation) as well as other emergency skills, what she has to offer is far outside the medical sphere. Since then, she has made guiding women through birth her work and journey.Ĭarol completed a 5 year, apprenticeship with a home birth midwife and has attended births in all settings. She found wise-women traditional midwives to support and guiding her birth and was able to birth autonomously outside the hospital. She began her career as a social worker and educator and transitioned to supporting women in birth after the birth of her first child.ĭuring her first pregnancy, she knew deep within that she needed to birth outside the medical system. Carol is a mother, teacher, birthkeeper and traditional midwife.
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