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Sasha Huckaby, Midwife

Minutes after the birth of my first child my husband and I turned to each other wide-eyed and amazed, "WOW!" After that empowering experience I felt like I could do anything! I had to know more! I read every book I could find and watched every video. I listened to my friends and families birth stories and shared mine with anyone who would listen.  

Since then my  husband and I  have been blessed with four more beautiful children and one on the way this summer. Each one of their births were so different, yet somehow the same.  My body miraculously remembered everything it needed to do for each birth and now more than ten years later I still find birth incredible.  From the moment of conception to the baby's first breath, I am amazed.  From the delicate ways our bodies change during pregnancy to the powerful ways our bodies work to push our babies into the world.  I still stand amazed. 
                   
Being able to share this experience with other women and their families is a dream come true.  In the past I have supported women and families as a doula.  Many of those births occurred in hospitals where rigorous time restraints, standard protocols and interventions are the norm.  Much of this works to throw off mom’s natural instinctive abilities, causing doubt, undue stress and fear on the new emerging family.

Working with Stacy and Jessica has taught me so much!  Especially  the importance of personal care and attention that each women and family needs and deserves.  Each woman is different, her body and baby unique, her birth is her own.  I love the supportive and private environment midwives and the homebirth provide.  Where we can be as much or as little as each family needs while always providing the comforting knowledge and skills that assure everyone that baby and mom are doing well.  It is an honor and a blessing to be a part of a profession that is woman-centered.  I have attended over 85 births with Stacy and I am now a midwife with an independent practice. 

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Jessica Arno, Doula and Midwife Assistant

My earliest memory is of telling my mom "I am going to bring babies into the world!" My mother tells stories about me running up to pregnant women in the supermarket, patting their bellies and talking to the babies. It's no wonder that as an adult I am acting out my childhood dreams of bringing babies into the world by becoming a midwife.

After high school,  I became an EMT to earn the money to pay for college and medical school. I thought I was going to pursue a medical degree and specialized as an OB/GYN. Yet as I pursued the dream of being an OB, hospital births didn't feel right to me as a woman. As a medical professional, my head told me that hospital birth was safe, but my heart told me that something wasn't right.

I began to read books on "alternative birth" and what I discovered is that hospital birth is the alternative way to birth and that women have been giving birth OUT of the hospital from the beginning of time. When I found midwifery my heart felt a feeling it hadn't in years. It was the same safe feeing I remember feeling as a child when I saw those pregnant mommies in the supermarket.

I knew God had given me a calling: helping mommies bring babies into this world. the difference was now I understood that He meant for me to accomplish my destiny through MIDWFERY!  A midwife understands what real birth is all about and helps each mom to have the safest birth possible with her family as her support system. Birth with a midwife is truly: "  Your BABY, YOUR BABY, YOUR BIRTH!" As an expecting mom, you deserve the best and it is my goal to do all my power to make every birth a perfect birth.