Martha's path to homebirth

I walk with women and families as a sovereign-birth companion. I'm also a guide for families exploring or planning freebirth. 

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

I'm responsible to the women I serve. I'm with women, I'm not with state regulations. 

My responsibility as a sovereign birth companion is to remember that I can never know more than the mother herself knows about her own body and about her own baby.

I've served about 320 families for fertility, pregnancy, birth, parenting, and coaching. I've witnessed over 200 births. 

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

To connect with me, please sign up on the main page of this site for a discovery session.

I'm credentialed by Whapio's Matrona for Holistic Midwifery. I have a holistic midwifery education.

-I learn from the women and families that I walk with, always.

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

-I learn from God/Mother Earth, and all beings.

-I open to my own innate wisdom.

-Ongoing review of the births I've witnessed.

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

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

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

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

-Innate postpartum, Rachelle Garcia.

-Hands-on breech workshop, Dr. Stu.

-Cardiac ultrasound tech, in-hospital, former job.

-BLS and CPR, not current.

-Blood Mysteries, Nancy Lucina and Kristin Hauser.

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

-Lactation support person, credentialed.

-EBL, Karen Strange, and other one-time courses.

-CBE certified.

-Spinning Babies x 2.

-Reiki Practitioner, Level II.

-Yoga instructor, practicing yogi.

-Ongoing study of physiology in birth.

-Ongoing study of the transition from fetal to newborn circulation.

-Legal assistant.

-Childcare and adult help jobs.

-B. A in Government, and lots of other degrees, jobs, and credentials.

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My work is premised on a deep reverence to the mother-child dyad. A newborn's transition from womb to earth is divinely and physiologically designed to be inseparable from the body and essence of her or his mother.

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

My experience includes witnessing over 160 times the in-system protocol of mother-baby separation, and by witnessing over 30 times what happens when newborns transition undisturbed, staying as ONE with their mother. 

I've deepened my understanding about newborn transition from womb to earth by guidance from Whapio, SisterMorning Star, traditional midwives, and independent study.

Of course I am no expert, and never can be. The mother of her child (and perhaps God or the Divine, depending on one's own Truth) is/are the authority(ies) here.

I see it that birth is sacred. I see it that the mother-newborn dyad is sacred.

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I acknowledge that I can control my own actions and thoughts, and that I cannot control the actions and thoughts of other people. 

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

I serve humbly, offering love and a willingness to learn from all people.

I'm honored to follow this calling. I'm here with open arms and an open heart.

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I'm not a medical provider, nor am I in the process of becoming one. I'm not accountable to any medical rules or protocols. I'm not licensed by the state. I do not provide medical advice or medical anything. I do learn from sources within the medical paradigm.

When a client brings up the subjects of medical tests, medical procedures, medical conditions, or the results of her medical tests, then I may explore these things with her, or not. 

Exploring here means it's up to the woman as to what we do; this could be physiological or biological facts associated with the medical result, energy reads, see why a given test got normalized in the first place, alternate ways to get the information provided by a given test,  practical considerations, family/social story related to why the woman agreed to the test, shifts, gathering more information, and more. This would never mean advice because that's not what I do. 

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, all kinds of people, Mother Earth, books, and just being.

I'm a naturally born midwife, a mother, friend, wife, earth worshipper, river walker, yogi, reiki practitioner, and a woman rich with life experiences. I'm deeply grateful for all of this.

My default is to be outside. 

I'm deep in everything midwifery as shared by Oni Lee Logan, Whapio, Anne Frye, Sister MorningStar, Qiddist Ashe/The Holy Well, Susun Weed, Talise Homebirth Queen, Heather Baker, Jennifer Block, Bridge Midwifery and the traditional midwives that they feature, all kinds of people's birth stories, Dr. Sara Wickham, Dr. Stu, Breech without Borders, Kemi Joy, many local people, and Free Birth Society. I learn from people and experiences in-system.

I also have my own theories about things.

UPDATE I'm now an author. My book, Words from our Wombs, is listed on Amazon KDP. Search "Martha Girard" if you have trouble finding it. Buy this book! Or don't. Peace, M

PRIOR TO WALKING AS A MIDWIFE                                    

I mothered my three children into adulthood. I 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. 

It's totally freeing now; my work and life are ONE.

Peace, and sincerely, Martha