What is Traditional Midwifery?

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What is Traditional Midwifery?

I am a Traditional Midwife (TM). Also called a Direct Entry Midwife or DEM. It is the most ancient form of midwifery practice there is. Midwifery has been around since the dawn of mothers and babies. Midwives, for thousands of years learned through the ancient knowledge of their mothers and grandmothers passed down for generations. That sacred connectivity and continuity of women's wisdom and the legacy of midwives was intentionally oppressed and forced out of the mainstream with the rise of medicalized practices. But the roots never die. Especially with something as deep and profound as woman to woman connection, birth and healing practices. It still lives on in the hearts and practices of the women who managed to preserve our history, women's history through the practice and cultivation of traditional midwifery. 

I have been practicing alternative healing arts for 14 years now. It was a journey of eight years for me to learn and cultivate the knowledge and intuition needed to be a Traditional Midwife. I have given birth to five children naturally. Four of them were free-birth, which means there was no midwife or medical professional in attendance. All five children were and are completely healthy in utero, birth and beyond. I have successfully breastfed all five of my children and carried four of them in utero for beyond 43 weeks. I have attended a live birth as a doula and was responsible for that mother's and her baby's prenatal care. I have given pregnancy and birth guidance to women all over the world, in person and online, through email as well as video chat and social media. Women have traveled hundreds of miles to receive my care and birth guidance, which has been such an honor and privilege. I did most of my own prenatal care for all five of my children with the support and wisdom of three midwives throughout the years. These incredible women took care to not only give me excellent care, but to also pass on the ancient as well as contemporary tools of midwifery. My learning and studying of this foundational women's craft goes on indefinitely.
     
​Combined with my skills, and 14 years experience as an Intuitive Healer, I have been incredibly blessed to be of a growing minority of women in America who have answered the call of the ancient ones as Traditional Midwives. We are the keepers of thousands of years of women's craft, healing arts, story and connectivity. Preserving these arts and reviving them is vital in the healing of women to embody true anonymity of body, mind and spirit. Birth is a natural, profound part of life. Children are the light of the world, and women are the channel for that light. Birth is not a medical condition. When women work to de-condition themselves from the ingrained fear narratives of today's western society about birth and motherhood, they re-discover their ancient power, reclaim their bodies and awaken again from the sleep that is a pervasive, through no original fault of their own, ignorance that was intentionally induced to profit and oppress, rather than revel in and celebrate women, babies and LIFE.

To heal women and birth, is to heal the world.

"We all came from a woman...I think it's time we heal our women." Tupac Shakur

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