Dr. Stu and Blyss are joined by Certified Nurse-Midwife Naomi Drucker. Today, you’ll hear about the inside workings of Naomi’s model of care, which gives women the option of having a home birth or hospital experience with a midwifery team.

In this episode of Birthing Instincts:

• Naomi’s practice: offering hospital & home births with midwives
• Ways to get doctors to support midwives in hospitals
• Challenges Naomi faces in the hospital as a nurse-midwife
• How Naomi’s pregnancy experiences led her into nursing & midwifery
• Pediatrician offices not accepting newborns born at home

Naomi’s Bio:

"I am, in chronological order; a sister, wife, mother, doula, nurse, and midwife. I met both Dr. Stu and Blyss years ago, just before they changed course to what they are doing now. I was born and mostly raised (till 15) in Montreal, Canada, and moved here with my mom and sister in 1992. I met my husband 6 months later which was unexpected!

I took Ellie Shae's doula training in 2000, graduated nursing school at LACC (Los Angeles City College) in 2005, and worked nights in L&D at Cedars from 2005-2018 when I graduated from midwifery school at Frontier Nursing University. I worked at GraceFull Birthing Center first and then started a private solo practice offering both home birth and hospital birth. In 2020 I took on a partner midwife and we launched Los Angeles Midwives which is where I am currently practicing.

I am so happy to now be able to offer a close enough version of ideal care to the clients that find me. I have 5 sons ages 23!!!, 19!!, 14,14 (twins), and 18 months old. 2 hospital births (Kaiser West LA, Cedars), one birth center (The Hollywood Birth Center), and my grand finale at home!

My 5-year plan includes growing my practice, normalizing physiologic birth in the hospital, normalizing and streamlining the home-to-hospital transfer experience, and supporting other midwives to offer this type of care here in LA."

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Follow Naomi:

• Website: losangelesmidwives.com 
• Instagram: @losangelesmidwives 

Connect with Dr. Stu:

• Instagram: @birthinginstincts
• Website: birthinginstincts.com

Connect with Blyss:

• Instagram: @birthingblyss
• Website: birthingblyss.com

This show is produced by Soulfire Productions