People often ask me how I became a midwife. I like to say I was born into it.
I was born into the hands of midwives in an old school bus that my family called home here on The Farm, where home birth was simply a way of life. As a child, I listened with fascination as my mother came home from births she attended as an assistant to the midwives. By the age of twelve, I knew I wanted to become a midwife myself.
After 3 decades of attending births, I still feel the same sense of awe.
Since beginning my journey as a doula and becoming a licensed midwife in 1999, I’ve had the privilege of supporting well over a thousand families through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. My work has taken me from private homebirth practice to the newborn intensive care unit as a registered nurse, and to birth communities in Jamaica, Haiti, Honduras, Uganda, the Bahamas, and Guatemala. Each experience has deepened my belief that birth is both a profoundly physiological process and one of life’s greatest rites of passage.
The greatest teacher in my career, however, was becoming a mother.
Although I had been attending births already for 12 years, it was quite different to be on the other side! I found myself facing the most challenging, powerful, and humbling experience of my life. The moment I touched her precious little head while she was still inside, just before she was born, I was flooded with a love far greater than anything I had ever known….and deep gratitude for the incredible privilege of giving birth, in the comfort of my own home, surrounded by family and supported by my three fabulous midwives!
I now have three beautiful daughters–Nehama, Jade, and Amaya–all born at home. They are the loves of my life and motherhood continues to humble and teach me each and every day.
After the birth of my third daughter, I experienced a significant maternal mental health crisis that forever changed the way I care for mothers and brought me back to The Farm from Miami in 2020. It was this 3rd postpartum journey that revealed how profoundly women are transformed—not only physically, but emotionally, neurologically, psychologically, relationally, and spiritually.
That experience led me to the field of matrescence—the developmental transition into motherhood—and expanded my work beyond birth itself. In addition to being a midwife, I am a Motherhood Studies Practitioner, matrescence mentor, and transformational facilitator. I am passionate about ensuring that mothers receive not only excellent clinical care, but also compassionate support for the identity shifts, emotional challenges, and immense growth that accompany becoming a mother.
My approach to care is deeply relational. I believe trust is foundational to what we bring into the birth space. Every family has a unique story, and my role is not to fit them into a protocol but to walk beside them with evidence-based care, thoughtful guidance, and deep respect for their intuition, autonomy, and values.
I am also deeply committed to maternal justice. As the mother of three Black daughters I have become increasingly passionate about addressing the unacceptable racial disparities in maternal and infant health outcomes in our country. I believe every family deserves respectful, culturally sensitive, relationship-based care, regardless of race, income, religious or sexual orientation, or zip code, and I am committed to helping build systems that make that vision possible.
Today, I am honored to serve families through Community Birth & Wellness, where we are carrying forward the extraordinary legacy of The Farm while helping shape the next generation of collaborative, sustainable, community-centered maternity care.
My hope is simple: that every mother feels seen, supported, and empowered—not only during birth, but throughout the lifelong journey of motherhood.