Being able to encourage women to believe in themselves throughout pregnancy, birth, and into their own journey as a mother is one of my greatest passions. I strongly believe in the beauty of birth and the strength that lies within each woman to not only birth naturally, but to be fully informed and involved every step of the way. I am still so amazed that I get to be apart of such an important journey in a family’s life.
My time in the Philippines grew my love for working alongside women and their families during such an important time in their lives. During my two and a half years in the Philippines I had the wonderful opportunity to serve hundreds of women at a high volume charity birth center. I soon embarked on another journey half way across the world to start my midwifery journey. Upon returning back from the mission field I was able to enroll in National College of Midwifery and Newlife International School of Midwifery in the Philippines. I knew right away in that small village, that midwifery would be apart of the rest of my life. My passion for serving women through their child bearing years began. I was able to witness firsthand the need for the continuity of care that midwifery provides women and their families. Yet I never imagined I would become a midwife until I found myself in a small village in Nepal.
#My first five years anne geddes full#
Soon after graduation I began travelling the world as a full time missionary.Īs a young girl, I was always so intrigued with the process of childbirth. I was born and raised in Texas and obtained my bachelor’s degree in Intercultural Studies from Liberty University. Licensed Midwife’s are privileged to deliver at home and at The Special Delivery BirthCenter. I desire to help every family have a birth experience the way they want it.” To see a mother's face beaming as she exclaims "I did it!" is sheer delight. To see families light up when their precious baby comes into the world never gets old. “I have been invited into such a precious time of life for so many people-a moment as intimate as your wedding night. Gene, Evan, Wesley, Arthur, Abraham, Jerry, Leah, Natalie (in Heaven,) Sophia, Crosby, and Jedidiah, have brought a wealth of experience in my own births and life. My children are such a blessing and delight. I have the most amazing husband who is so supportive. “I have eleven children: nine, I birthed, and two I got for free. I love helping women and families have their babies.” At 23, I graduated from Seattle Midwifery School and began my life as a midwife. I prayed about it and all the doors miraculously flew open. The more I helped pregnant and birthing women, the more I knew I wanted to be a midwife. I wanted to spread the news! Burning with a passion to help women, I became a childbirth educator and began labor coaching.
“When I looked at the scientific facts, I found that out-of-hospital maternity care is actually safer than hospital birth for low-risk women who are attended by a knowledgeable care provider. Just having the emotional space to love and be intimate in my own atmosphere, and being cared for by my midwife whom I knew instead of nurses I had never seen before, released a freedom of intimacy that can't be created in the hospital setting.” When my second son, Evan, was born at home, the difference was life-changing. At first I wondered how she had done that-but then I found a midwife. I had birthed my first son in the hospital and had about as good experience as you can have there but then a friend told me that she had delivered her fourth baby at home. “I knew I wanted to be a midwife at the birth of my second child.
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