10/30/2025
It’s my birthday so it felt like good time to reintroduce our practice!
Transitions: Birth Services for Every Body is a welcoming, inclusive community midwifery practice in Milwaukee, WI, providing community birth care for your pregnancy, birth, and postpartum period. Our practice is education based and driven by your right to make informed choices for you and your baby. Our care is deeply personal and rooted in respect and dignity. You are welcome here.
Lucky Tomaszek, LM, CPM
she/her
Lucky is a licensed midwife in the state of Wisconsin. Way back in 1984, at the tender age of 11, Lucky watched her cat give birth to her first litter of kittens. From that moment, she knew she belonged in the world of birth. Twelve years later, she began pursuing her dream through self study. In 1998, Lucky trained to be a doula, and was certified by DONA in 1999. That was also the year that Lucky became a La Leche League Leader. After the birth of her third baby in 2000, she began training with a homebirth midwife in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Since those early beginnings, Lucky has attended about 450 births in various capacities. In 2019, Lucky spent six months in Utah, working in a high volume birth center to finely hone her craft.
Lucky also worked as a s*xuality educator at The Tool Shed: An Erotic Boutique (2008-2024), providing education and trainings for birthworkers and regular folks alike on a variety of topics. She continues to teach small group classes and present at regional conferences. Her classes focus on consent culture, s*x and disability, s*x and chronic pain, and the issues that parents face around s*xuality. She has been invited to speak at colleges, universities, churches, synagogues, festivals, burlesque shows, and professional development conferences throughout the Midwest. She is the author and founder of the Birthworker Inclusivity Training Series, the only training focused on the needs of s*xual minorities. Lucky is also a published author, formerly writing The Slightly Crunchy Parent, a monthly parenting column (2002-2009), and MKE S*X, a semi-monthly s*x ed column (2016-2023).
Lucky lives in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood with her partner, and enjoys the active community all around her. When not teaching, writing, and attending births, Lucky loves spending time with her adult children and two grandchildren, needle felting for stress relief, and reading books cuddled up on her couch.
Tori Freund
they/them
Tori is a q***r and trans nonbinary student midwife with a passion for supporting individuals and families at the intersection of all their identities and lived experiences and across the spectrum of reproductive and family building experiences. In 2017, their interest in birthwork was sparked by writing a college paper on homebirth. That spark led Tori to pursue doula training and they began working as a full spectrum doula in 2019. Over the years, their educational foundation in birthwork has continued and they have earned additional knowledge and certifications in lactation and infant feeding, babywearing, childbirth education, gender affirming care, and harm reduction (just to name a few).
After working as a birth assistant with Lucky for several months, Tori felt their passion for midwifery growing. They officially joined Transitions Birth Services as a student midwife in January 2024. In addition to pursuing midwifery, Tori also teaches childbirth education and lactation education classes at the Transitions Birth Services office and offers lactation support services. Tori believes that everyone deserves to have someone who sees them as a whole human being and will meet them where they’re at.
Outside of birthwork, Tori enjoys a relatively quiet life at home with their dog, Addie. They can usually be found reading and playing cozy games, exploring the local farmers markets, spending time outdoors (when weather permits!), or learning a new skill or craft.
Tamara N. Thompson
Tamara is a Black femme Doula, Lactation Counselor, Childbirth Educator, activist, and Midwife Apprentice.
Since 2005, Tamara has been dedicated to offering knowledgeable, compassionate expertise in localized models care, community-based education, holistic support and grassroots engagement. She specializes in the complete circle or “full spectrum” of pregnancy in ways that are individualized, culturally aligned, and affirming to each client.
With the reproductive justice framework being foundational to her work, Tamara’s core values center on the right to become pregnant, to not become pregnant, to birth or to not give birth, and the right to parent children in safe and healthy environment with vital resources. Her advocacy for human rights extends to people at the intersections of pregnancy and racism, immigration, incarceration, trauma, gender identity, pregnancy/infant loss, poverty, and access to human milk.
Tamara has been a founding member of many organizations including the Wisconsin Doulas of Color Collective, Harambee Village, Maroon Calabash, the Wisconsin Birthing Justice Collective and the Wisconsin Black Student Midwives Alliance. She is a lifelong learner, writer, plant lover, family historian, and baked bread enthusiast.
