11/09/2021
Let’s formally welcome Amy to the birth center team!! Our community is so blessed to have you and your amazing wealth of knowledge, love and experience with us.
Amy has walked alongside women and helped them in birth for almost 20 years, and for more than 10 of these years has been certified as a midwife. She began her pursuit of midwifery after the traumatic birth of her first son 23 years ago. Following that experience, she knew the modern medical approach should not be the starting point for woman nor the definition of birth. Having learned about midwifery as an option she chose a natural birth using midwives for her two other sons with redeeming and life changing outcomes. Understanding the spectrum of what birth can be both with and without education and a plan, Amy has made it her mission to help women have options, choices, information and education.
Prior to beginning work with the Bozeman Birth Center, she practiced as a Certified Professional Midwife and Licensed Midwife in a solo home birth practice for over 10 years. Amy believes birth is natural, normal and intricately designed and the less we do as providers to interfere, the more it works. She believes in the model of midwifery and loves supporting women in out-of-hospital environments, be it in the home or in the birth center setting.
Her philosophy of birth is simple: because birth is intricately designed, intervention should rarely be necessary. Midwives should be the standard of care for women who are low risk. She believes the childbearing years are the best years of a woman’s life; they should be celebrated, embraced and enjoyed. It is her honor to walk alongside women during this beautiful and sacred time supporting them, their choices and their family. As a midwife, Amy supports classical midwifery values.
Her goal at the Bozeman Birth Center is to work with the growing community, offering exceptional service and individualized care to women and families. She aims to work with her clients to provide them with the comfortable safe birth experience they know is possible. Amy knows each woman is unique, and every birth story should be as well. Her desire is to help women to see birth as a normal, beautiful life event waiting to unfold. She eagerly looks forward to walking alongside you in this journey.
