midwife or birthkeeper

Welcome! I walk with women and families as a birthkeeper or as a private midwife. Private midwife is for families who've joined my membership. 

I'm here for women who plan to homebirth or plan to birth at another space outside the system, such as an airb.

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

Here's what happens when I walk with a woman as her midwife or birthkeeper.

We create a trust based relationship at our pre birth connection sessions.

We may go over some of the following topics.

* see why birth works best when it's not managed

* 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, placentas, newborn appearance+

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

* tools of radical self-responsibility.

There is no agenda here. We may share food, do yoga, reiki, and more.  We may end up just talking and walking together.

At your birth space, here's what happens.

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 field or pray with you, according to what serves you

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

- help with children, partners, others 

- share my opinion 

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

- stay with you post birth until you're snuggled in with your baby and things are cleaned up.

Postpartum

I may:

- nourish you

- listen as you integrate birth, rebirth, or anything 

- 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.

- I offer post birth support daytime, 9 am to 5 pm, for a few days/weeks post birth. Usually  these sessions are two to three hours.

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 Freebirth/Sovereign Birth Basics session.  This is a paid session. 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. 

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

Sincerely, Martha