Joi Brock, CPM,LM - Career Bio

Joi Brock is known throughout the community as an expert in the field of natural birth, water birth, twin birth and the list goes on. She is also known for her upbeat personality and her contagiously positive outlook on life. She has a rare quality of making people feel like one of her best friends almost instantly. After meeting her, everyone understands that her parents named her appropriately. Those that know and love her affectionately call her "Joi to the Birth World!"

Joi's belief in a family’s right to informed choice directs her work as an advocate for education and freedom in birth. Her motto of “Your baby! Your body! Your birth!”, is exemplified in her care of women.  Joi is the mother of three adult children, born in the 1970’s and 1980’s in a time of growing medical interventions.  Even while giving birth in a hospital setting, she knew that babies just “needed to be born”; consequently, Joi and her husband were at home with their newborns when they were just hours old. Joi's experiences in her personal births make her a multidimensional midwife that is adamant about doing her best to make each family's quest for a natural birth a reality.

Joi is a licensed massage therapist and applied her broad base of knowledge about the way the human body works when she became a labor support expert, also known as a birth doula. She was known as the " doula to have" in the Austin and San Antonio areas before she began her formal training to be a midwife.

During Joi's training to become a midwife she carried over her extensive knowledge from massage therapy, doula experience and life experience and was a natural at encouraging birthing mothers in physical, emotional and spiritual ways that made it possible for them to birth successfully at home.

Years ago Joi began her education in the field of nursing and public health. She was educated in many aspects of caring for women during their childbearing years, which eventually led her to her destination of midwifery. During this time, she assisted over 250 families and women in hospital based births and over 150 families in out-of-hospital births, to include breeches and multiples.  Joi’s passion for education expands to the midwifery community, where “passing on the knowledge” is shown in the way she teaches student midwives. 

Although most of her time is spent in the support and education of women in birth, Midwife Joi loves spending time with her husband of 34 years, her adult children and her parents.  In her quiet time she enjoys music, sewing, reading and watching sunsets.

Educational History Lamar University, Beaumont, TX, Nursing, 1973 Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, Health Care, 1974 Florida Jr. College, Jacksonville, FL, Nursing, 1975-1976 Blinn Jr. College, Bryan, TX, Health Care, 1989 Austin School of Massage, Austin, TX, 1998-1999 Doulas of North American Training, Austin, TX, 1999 Midwifery Residency Training, San Antonio, TX, 2003-2006 Primary Midwife, San Antonio, TX, 2005 North American Registry of Midwives Skill Test, 2005 North American Registry of Midwives Written Exam, 2006 National College of Midwifery, 2008 Professional Positions Teacher Substitute – North Carolina and Texas, 1995-2001 Board Member, San Antonio Birth Doulas, 2001-2004 Childbirth Educator, San Antonio Birth Doulas, 2001-2004 Massage Therapy Instructor, Austin and San Antonio, TX, 2002-2004 Educator, Babies R Us, San Antonio, TX, 2003-current Childbirth Educator, Ft. Sam Military Family Advocacy Program, 2003 – current Mom-2-Mom, Regional Director and Founder, San Antonio, TX, 2004-2006 Association of Texas Midwives Board Member, Representative Region 6: 2008 - current San Antonio Area Midwives Association, President, 2006-2008 Midwifery College of Utah, Student Preceptor, 2006-current North American Registry of Midwives preceptor/teacher, 2006-current Department State Health Services, Ad Hoc Rules Committee for Texas Midwifery Board, Public Member, 2006 Breastfeeding Educator, Destination Maternity, San Antonio, TX 2006-2007 Board Member, South Texas Women’s Birth and Health Collaborative, San Antonio, TX 2007-current Community Service Volunteer - Church Ministry:  Music, Children’s Ministry, Education, Administration 1977-2005 Volunteer - Steep Hollow Church Outreach, Bryan, TX 1979-1991 Vacation Bible School Coordinator, Bryan, TX 1980-1986 PTA President and Board Member, Bryan, TX 1985-1990 Children’s Choir Director, Texas, Mississippi, North Carolina, 1983-2000 Volunteer with Texas schools, 1983-2005 Board Member, Reagan Spirit Club, San Antonio, TX, 2001-2005 Volunteer with Red Cross Disaster Relief Services, 2002-current Community Education: Parent Training Seminars, Breastfeeding Education, Baby Basics, Infant Massage Medical Mission, Dominican Republic, Hospital Taiwan, Asua, 2007 Professional Affiliations Doulas of North America (DONA) National Association of Childbearing Centers (NACC) Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA) North American Registry of Midwives (NARM) Waterbirth International International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN) La Leche League International (LLL) Citizens for Midwifery (CfM) Texans for Midwifery (TfM) San Antonio Area Midwives Association (SAAMA) Texas Midwives Group Professional Development American Red Cross CPR and First Aid, 1973-current Bodywork for the Childbearing Years, 1998 Infant Massage, 1998 Reflexology, 2000 American Heart Association Neonatal Pulmonary Resuscitation (NPR), 2006-current Affidavit of Paternity Training, Texas, 2006-current Birth Doula Training (DONA), Instructor, 2003-2007 How to Open A Birth Center (NACC), Florida, 2003 Attachment Parenting Round Table, Professional Participant, 2004 Newborn Screen Procedure Training, 2005 Should You Have a C-Section, 2005 Creating A Successful Midwifery Practice, 2006 Optimal Fetal Positioning, 2006 American Red Cross Association, Disaster Volunteer Orientation, 2006 American Red Cross Association, Introduction to Disaster Services, 2006 American Red Cross Association, Fulfilling Our Mission, 2007 Advanced Skills Hands-On Seminar, Instructor, Seattle, Washington; 2006 Breeches and Twins Round Table, 2006 Medications for Midwives, 2007 Medical Consent Training, 2007 Thyroid Disease in Women, 2007 Caring for the Newborn, 2007 Intrapartum Sterile Speculum Examination for Registered Nurses, 2008 Newborn Screening for Midwives, (recert.) 2008 Mental Health Screening for Physicians, 2008 Cultural Competence for Midwives, 2008 Professional Conferences The Gathering, ACNM and ATM, Wimberley, TX 2005 ATM, Association of Texas Midwives Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX 2006 The Gathering, ACNM and ATM, Speaker, Camp Buckner, Texas 2006 Seattle Midwife Educational Workshop, Instructor, 2006 The Gathering, ACNM and ATM, South Padre Island, Texas 2007 Personal Married since 1974 to husband Bob Children: Angela (29), Daniel (26), Rebecca (21), Thomas (30 – Angela’s Husband) 2 dogs – Harvey (Jack Russell), “Bo” (Pug) Member: Steep Hollow Baptist Church, TX, 1976-1991 Pinelake Baptist Church, MS, 1991-1992 First Baptist Church College Station, TX 1992-1994 Village Drive Baptist Church, NC, 1994-1996 Great Hills Baptist Church, TX 1996-2001 Shearer Hills Baptist Church, TX 2001-2008 Community Bible Church, 2008 Personal Development: Joi's personal enrichment through the authors below began in 1978. Zig Ziglar: Books, Videos, Conferences Normal Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking” Dale Carengie “How to Win Friends and Influence People” Jim Rohn:  Books, Videos, Taped Conferences Og Mandino: Complete Library Denis Waitley: Books, Videos, Taped Conferences Earl Nightingale “The Greatest Secret” Napoleon Hill “Think and Grow Rich” Michael Gerber “The E-Myth” Stephen Covey “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Robert Kiyosaki “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” Beth Moore Conference, 2006 Women of Faith National Conference, 2007