My personal journey started out with little to no information on midwives. A nurse-midwife in town graciously invited me to be a part of one of her client’s home birth experiences from prenatal visits to the birth and postpartum. It was at this very first birth that I fell in love with midwifery. I saw the caring, wise, loving attitude the nurse-midwife held and I saw the beauty of natural home birth. The connection between the mother and her child was not of this world. I wanted to be a part of that moment for other mothers and help them make decisions for themselves.

I continued to attend home births for a year and a half as an assistant/nurse and then I went back to school for my master’s degree of science in nursing with a specialty in midwifery. I graduated from Frontier Nursing University at the end of 2016 after being a part of more than 100 deliveries in hospital and home. My practicum was at Denver Health in Denver, Colorado and with a rural practice in Rock Springs, Wyoming.

I have also experienced a hospital and home birth. My oldest daughter was born vaginally in a breech position in Colorado, and my youngest daughter was born at home. Both experiences were very valuable in helping me to empathize with my clients.

I am very excited to not only be opening a home birth practice here in Casper and the surrounding areas but also to provide women’s health services and limited primary care from adolescence to menopause and beyond.