Welcome to WISDOM Midwifery
Welcome to WISDOM Midwifery
I have been training and serving as a midwife for nearly 50 years, 35 of them in Washington DC. I am the Founder of WISDOM Midwifery, The WISDOM Pilot Project for Normal Birth and Cesarean Prevention (2007-present), and The WISDOM Model of Collaborative Care. I am also the Founder and past Director of GW Midwifery (2010-2020) and I continue to serve GW as an Associate Clinical Professor. I am recognized for my development of The Midwifery Pearls: Evidence for Clinical Practice, and The Pinger Patterns of Labor.
I split my time between WDC and California and currently practice clinical midwifery with Birthcare and Women’s Health in the DMV and East Bay Midwifery in Berkeley, California. After spending the majority of my career pioneering midwifery services in academic medical centers, I now primarily provide home and birth center based prenatal care, labor and delivery as well as GYN services.
I have completed multiple advanced training programs and have been focused on lecturing and teaching to advance the WISDOM Model of Collaborative Care. This evidence-based, midwifery-led model of collaborative care promotes optimal outcomes and expands access to physiologic, uninterrupted, and empowered birth. This includes vaginal breech birth, and I am an Instructor for Breech Without Borders, working to expand access to and training of physiologic, vaginal breech delivery. I believe in midwifery-led care as the standard of care.
My greatest passion has been and continues to be working with pregnant and birthing people. In addition to my teaching, lecturing, and clinical practice, I provide counseling, birth trauma services, and lead WISDOM Journeys, rituals and celebrations.
Services
Consultations
I work closely with other midwives, clients, and professional organizations to optimize access to evidence-based, innovative midwifery care read more...
Birth Trauma Work
Pregnancy, labor, delivery, postpartum, and breastfeeding can trigger deep trauma, either from the events, or by connecting with deeper, past trauma. I am an expert in guiding both clients and providers to work through trauma from their experiences an optimize their wellness in mind, body and spirit.
Delivery Services
I have recently joined the midwifery team at Birthcare and Women’s Health and continue to offer my ongoing professional and personal expertise to the midwifery community, clients, colleagues, and organizations. Of course, you can find the amazing GW Midwives here. For more pregnancy, birth, and midwifery information and resources, please visit Birth Options Alliance.
Rituals and Celebrations
I am a sacred, feminine leader who serves my community in a spiritual capacity by creating and holding sacred space for others. I have studied long and have experience in a variety of ritual and healing modalities, counseling, ceremony facilitation, and magic. I officiate marriages, blessingways, naming ceremonies, menstrual initiations, women’s circles, tribal councils, healings, life transitions, and many other events from a place of feminine divinity, empowerment, and inclusion.