When I was about 13 or 14 years old, I started taking guitar lessons with a local teacher. Throughout the next year or two, my family grew closer with this family and we were invited to different holiday events that they had going on. We had been invited to their Thanksgiving one year and I remember standing in the kitchen after eating dinner and listening to the women talk in the kitchen while cleaning up. Their conversation at the time of me standing there consisted of placenta encapsulation, doula work, home birth, Bradley method classes and midwives. I remember thinking “this is really weird” but I felt simultaneously very intrigued. For the remainder of my teenage years, I did not give this topic much more thought. 

During my senior year of high school, I was constantly being asked “what are you going to do when you graduate?” and “where are you going to go to college?”. I couldn’t shake the thought of “midwife” when I was exploring different career paths. Around this same time, I watched the movie called “The Business of Being Born”. This film ignited a passion for home birth, midwives, and all things birth related that I never knew I had in me before. I felt a strong calling to serve mothers and babies in a home setting. This launched me into more research on midwifery and in my research I found out that a somewhat local college offered a degree for “Direct-Entry Midwifery”.