The Hummingbird Midwives

My Passion for Birth

My passion began when I was a young girl. In the images of old female slaves, “the mammy’s” and “big mamas, “ I saw these women, who were always called upon when the slave women or “Massa’s” wives were in labor. I understood they carried the knowledge, skill, strength, and power to ensure the safe passage of a new life and new momma into loving space.

These women were the holders of light and life in a very unsafe and hostile environment. Yet these women carried the knowledge of food and herbs. They sang songs, stirred large pots of stew and special tea, or sat humming prayer and knitting a stitch, patiently awaiting the laboring mother, encouraging her and comforting her like no one else had been able to.

These women were my first archetypes of a midwife. By age 6 or 7, I knew that I wanted to be a doctor who delivered babies.

My Educational Path

I bring a lot of learned and lived experience in birth, life, and death, as well as healing, strength, and joy. I pursued degrees in Psychology and Public Health before studying Naturopathic medicine and Chinese medicine.

In between it all, I got married, had babies, started a business, and immersed myself in community advocacy work centered around health disparities, reproductive justice, food equity, mental health wellness, and homelessness.

I also traveled to parts of Africa and Haiti, where I was always placed with midwives and maribous (traditional spiritual healers) to assist, learn, and experience. I can tell you delivering babies by candlelight sheds a beautiful light on the situation.

My Role In Birthwork

My role in birth work, in the most mundane of senses, is to be a witness and assistant to catch the baby.

And in the most magical view, I take a journey with families. I use my hands, my head, my heart, and spirit to create and ensure a safe space for moms, dads, and families, where you can birth your new life into safety and love, on your own terms.

I ensure that the new lives entering into this world, and the resulting families, are welcomed and held with love, respect, honor, and majesty.

It is an honored place to sit...right at the feet of our great mothers, waiting patiently at the door to life on this earth with a smile and good greeting for the new soul coming to join us. I was raised to believe that every child is an answer to a prayer. I am here to make sure those prayers are born into existence with gentle, loving care and gratitude.

What Else?

In my free time, between doctor-mom’ing and supporting birthing families, I enjoy singing, dancing, poetry, photography, and all forms of hands-on art.

I also love cooking & eating great food, enjoying great movies, traveling to new places, spending time in nature...parks, mountains, lakes, backyards (whatever you got, I love it). I sew, knit, or read. Most of all, I love gathering with friends and family to laugh and spend time together.

My passion has always been to assist God in His work of healing and supporting life, light, and love through all of its cycles. I look forward to joining you and supporting you through this beautiful journey! Let’s go! Peace and Blessings.