midwife or birthkeeper

I walk with women and families as a birthkeeper or as a private midwife. Ask about joining our membership.

This is homebirth free from the system. 

During your pregnancy.

We create a trust based relationship at our pre birth connection sessions, where we may do the following:

* see why birth works best when it's undisturbed

* deprogram from in-system indoctrination

* I get to know your partner and family

* ways to encourage a healthy pregnancy

* clarify prenatal care options: wild pregnancy,* self testing, some in system tests 

* clarify who's invited to your birth space

* variations of normal on pregnancy, birth, placenta birth, placentas, newborn appearance+

* explore your dreams, fears, concerns, prior birth stories

* lay out the facts about transfer to the hospital.

All of the above is optional. We may just walk together and chat spontaneously.

At your birth space.

You are centered and exalted as you move freely through your birth process, give birth, and begin mothering your child earthside. 

I'm present in my own authority as an intuitive and experienced birth witness.

I may:

- clear the energy 

- pray with you according to your own beliefs or religion

- support you during your birth process/aka labor

- support you during baby's emergence, placenta birth, and more

- help with children, partners, others 

- offer food, drink, clean-up

- share my opinion 

- be one room away for most/all of your birth process

- show up just after you've birthed your baby

- stay with you for days and nights when your birth process ebbs and flows

- I stay with you after your baby is born until you're snuggled in with your baby, things are cleaned up, and you're okay with me heading out.

There's no time limits on any of this.

Postpartum I offer post birth support during the daytime, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for a few days or weeks post birth. Usually these sessions are two to three hours.

I may:

- nourish you

- listen to you, and then listen to you some more

- breastfeeding support + help with everything newborn

- ceremony

- help with older children, pets, household chores, errands.

- explore keeping your newborn wild or ways to present her/him to the system.

More:

 - Birth tub 

 - Placenta encapsulation 

 - Traveling midwife

To connect with me please choose from one of the following:

1-Sign up on the main page of this site for a sovereign birth basics session.  This is a paid session to explore the concept of birth outside of the system. If I end up serving you as a birthkeeper, midwife, or freebirth guide, then your payment will count toward the total owed for that service.

2-Sign up for a free discovery session, also on the main page here, when you already fully plan to birth in sovereignty and potentially would like to work with me.

We can meet in person when you're within 10 miles of Milwaukee or we can meet by Zoom. 

Any woman may choose to birth free from submission to the government controlled obstetric system.

*To my knowledge Yolande Clark coined the phrase "wild pregnancy."

Sincerely, Martha