Midwife Profiles

Tanya has been practicing midwifery for over two decades. She began her journey as an apprentice in British Columbia. After the homebirth of her first child, she returned to the Pioneer Valley where her family lives. She continued working with other midwives in the area and at the same time completed the Massachusetts Midwives Alliance Midwifery Program. She went on to student teach in the program following her completion. Shortly thereafter she completed a clinical intensive at Casa de Naciamento, a busy maternity center on the Mexican border, in El Paso, Texas. When she returned from El Paso she gave birth to her second child at home and later that year opened Sacred Birth Midwifery. She has been in continuous practice now since 1998.

Rebecca began her midwifery studies with the MMA Basic Course in 1996. She then completed a formal two year apprenticeship in Boston, and a clinical intensive at Case De Naciamento in El Paso, TX. She worked in Southeastern Massachusetts and the Cape as a primary midwife and became a CPM in 2002. In 2004 she moved to Western Massachusetts with her family and had the pleasure of a 9 year midwifery partnership and the good fortune of attending births with many area midwives. Rebecca is now a co-director, curriculum developer and teacher for the MMA Basic Course in Midwifery Studies. She sees the evolution of who she has become as a midwife to be directly related to her work with the wonderful families she has served. Her practice was also significantly influenced by her own birth experiences, where her midwives served her with skill, caring and dignity.

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30 years experience. Serving Eastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire. Specializing in VBAC, Water Birth, Trauma-Informed Care, and Culturally Appropriate, Respectful Care. Prenatal visits take place in clients' homes. Lab and Ultrasound services provided. Payment plans available.

In 2017 I completed my studies with the Massachusetts Midwives Alliance, working through their midwifery course towards becoming a CPM (Certified Professional Midwife).

After completion of my coursework, and beginning my doula career, I began apprenticing with a wonderful local home birth midwifery practice: Sacred Birth Midwifery. I worked, learned and grew with Sacred Birth Midwifery from 2018 until 2023, at which time our greenhouse business had grown beyond my two full-time jobs. In trying to find a better harmony between work life balance, I have now returned to doula work and a smaller client load.

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I completed my CPM in 2022

I completed my doula training with TOLabor in 2014.

I am CPR certified

and certified in neonatal resuscitation.

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I have been joyfully accompanying families in their homebirth journeys since 2015. I approach each client and family with an open-minded collaborative spirit that allows us to work as partners and equals. We both bring important insight, wisdom and responsibility to the table. It feels so good to create this deep trust one prenatal at a time and use it as the foundation of our clinical decisions. I look forward to starting that process with you!

My midwifery practice is based on the traditional model of a midwife serving her own community. When we live close to the people we serve, we are invested and accountable. We are better attuned to the culture and values of the place and people. We build connection that can last past the birthing time. We are not only birthing babies, we are birthing a community.

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