About Me

Where I am Now

I walk with women and families as a sovereign birth companion. Some people refer to me as a birth keeper.

I'm also a guide for families exploring or planning freebirth.

I walk with women as they unveil their own truths, find their own way.

I've served about 300+ family-units for pregnancy, birth, parenting, and life and death happenings. I've witnessed over 200 births, some sovereign and some within the obstetric hierarchy.

I listen to women. I walk in Gratitude. I learn from all Beings, Mother Earth, and God.

I walk with my clients free from hierarchy.

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I do respond in the moment. If help is needed then it's about people helping people.

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Some of my clients come to me already fully sovereign and some start out in the system.

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To connect with me please schedule a discovery session. The schedule is on the main page of this site.

Credentials and such

-Credentialed by Whapio's Matrona for Holistic Midwifery + five other Whapio credentials. I have a holistic midwifery education.

-Currently enrolled in Billie Harrigan's Traditional Birth Companion course.

-I learn from all kinds of birth workers: traditional midwives, sovereign birth-workers, in-system people, holistic providers, and more.

-Ongoing review of the births I've witnessed.

-Ongoing review of Whapio's holistic midwifery course and other courses.

-Credentialed, Breech 101 and Breech Pro 2, Breech without Borders.

-Credentialed, Breech and Twins Master class, BWB in-person training 2025.

-Certified, Neonatal resuscitation.

-Formerly certified, BLS and CPR.

-Completed, EBL, Blood-Born Pathogens, Karen Strange NNR, resolving shoulder dystocia, and other one-time courses.

-Credentialed, Sovereign Cycles Practitioner, Qiddist Ashe/The Holy Well.

-Birth Keeper, Free Birth Society.

-Completed, Innate postpartum, Rachelle Garcia.

-Credentialed, Hands-on breech workshop, Dr. Stu.

-Credentialed, Blood Mysteries, Nancy Lucina and Kristin Hauser.

-Certified doula x 3: Well Rounded, Hypnobabies, MTM.

-Credentialed, Lactation support person.

-Certified, CBE x 2.

-Credentialed, Spinning Babies x 2.

-Certified, Reiki Practitioner Level II.

-Credentialed, Prenatal yoga instructor.

-Expired, I was a certified cardiac ultrasound tech.

MY PATH

PRIOR TO WALKING AS A SOVEREIGN BIRTH COMPANION (ask about joining our membership), I was a child myself, mothered my three children into adulthood, and worked 24 years in the medical paradigm: 18 years in cardiology and six years as a doula. I've had many certificates, degrees, credentials, and jobs.

I'm a naturally born midwife as defined in the classical way (dictionary, spiritual, and traditional definitions, not the government's definition), a mother, friend, wife, earth worshipper, river walker, yogi, reiki practitioner, and a woman rich with life experiences.

I've evolved to see that controlling birth outcomes, controlling the mother-newborn dyad, and controlling a person's destiny are all things that are not within my power to control nor am I entitled to pursue control over these things

I'm deep in everything midwifery. I learn daily from the women and families I walk with.

I follow Oni Lee Logan, Whapio, Billie Harrigan, Anne Frye, Sister MorningStar, Naoli Vinaver, Qiddist Ashe, Susun Weed, Talise Homebirth Queen, Heather Baker, Jennifer Block, Bridge Midwifery and the traditional midwives that they feature, other traditional midwives, in-system midwives and doctors, Dr. Sara Wickham, Dr. Stu, Breech Without Borders, Kemi Joy Johnson, and many local people.

I'm not a medical provider, nor am I in the process of becoming one. I do learn from sources within the medical paradigm.

MY ROOTS: I honor my ancestors, especially my mom Eunice Dittmer Girard and my main spirit guide grandmother Ann Keune Girard, my own children, friends, the human condition, Mother Earth, books, and just being.

I'm an author. Words From Our Wombs can be found on Amazon.

Disclosure: I walk and serve honestly and with integrity and kindness. This means I do not engage with people or device correspondence in which my words and other actions are met with verbal abuse, deflection, shaming, gaslighting, libel, slander, threats, and uninvited power-over stances.

Peace, and sincerely, Martha

Newborn emergence

My work is premised on a deep reverence to the mother-child dyad. A newborn is divinely and physiologically designed to be inseparable from her/his mother.

I've witnessed the drastic difference between sovereign birth and in-system delivery during these moments, minutes, hours, and sometimes days post birth.

I see the mother-newborn dyad as sacred; my view is unlike anything that is now and has been presented in the mainstream in the U.S. for at least the last 60 to 70 years.

I follow the mother with humility and love. I see it that mothers are the guardians of their newborns.

I've deepened my understanding about the newborn's transition from womb to earth by guidance from my own cellular wisdom, Whapio, SisterMorning Star, and traditional midwives.

I continue to deepen this understanding by studying "scientific" research, studying physiology, and by over and over replaying in my mind the births I've witnessed with attention to what happened in each case during the newborn's transition from womb life to air breathing. By replaying here it means not just "seeing" exactly what happened, but recalling sound, scent, and energy.

Sincerely, Martha

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DISCLAIMER

I am not a medical provider. I do not give advice, medical or otherwise. I am not accountable to the state-controlled medical obstetric system. If you seek medical help or help from a licensed practitioner, I suggest you contact a licensed practitioner. A licensed practitioner is someone who has a number by their title and has been deemed qualified under Wisconsin state law or another state to work with people under statutory regulations and state law. If you are having an emergency and seek medical help I suggest you tap the number 9-1-1 on the device nearest to you.

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