Catherine is a retired CNM with a varied career in hospital, home birth, a military career and motherhood. She offers insight and lessons learned through her journey to midwifery and throughout midwifery. Listening to experienced midwives is a great lesson for all of us newer to the career, and I'm so thrilled she was willing to share her story. She also creates some beautiful pregnancy glass art work now and you can find her on @cjonescnm at IG, I will also be sharing some of her artwork on my page as well. 

Have you ever wanted to chat with your ACNM chapter president? Have you ever wanted to chat with a midwife involved in legislative work? Well, on this episode, you get BOTH!! Katie is an experienced CNM with a wealth of knowledge and a giving heart! You will love hearing her speak and tell her story of advocacy work for midwives in Virginia, as well as her own personal journey to midwifery. You can find her on IG at @virginiaacnm 

Yvonne Heavyside, a British trained Health Visitor, lactation consultant and community nurse who has more than 35 years working experience in obstetrics, health visiting, lactation advice, family planning and maternal and child health nursing owns and operates the Family Zone, a home visiting business that supports postpartum families in Hong Kong. In this interview, Yvonne and I talk about how she came to be in Hong Kong and and her many years of stories and experiences with the families of Hong Kong. Wonderful episode packed full of cultural diversity! 

Link to Yvonne's business page:

https://thefamilyzone.hk/about-us/about-us/

THIS INTERVIEW! Augustine opens up to her very emotional and vulnerable path to midwifery and includes all the amazing work she has done along the way. Much of it with deep sacrifices. We can all learn from story's like Augustine and I am deeply thankful she came on to share this journey with all of us. You can check out her links below...

https://www.midwiferywisdom.com/

https://www.facebook.com/MidwiferyWisdomCollective

IG: @MidwiferyWisdom and @artofbirthing 

This episode is with Dr. Rachel Reed, a UK and Australian midwife. She is the host of the podcast "A Midwife's Cauldron" and writes a blog "MIDWIFE THINKING." This is a great episode with Dr Reed who shares her journey, the differences of midwifery in the UK vs Australia, her PhD research (which is AMAZING!!) her blog, her podcast and books. Please listen you will love this! Then hop on over to the Midwife's Cauldron podcast and check that out too!

 https://midwifethinking.com/

This is Lexi's short and sweet story of how she was called to Midwifery! She is currently practicing just outside of Detroit Michigan. Take a listen to her story, and thanks Lexi for sharing it! 

Hilary Schlinger shares her journey toward becoming "all the midwives." She also deeply discussed the alphabet soup of midwifery in the United States and thoughts on how to make midwifery ONE community. This is a great discussion with wonderful insight from Hilary, from the history of midwifery to current education. Check it out! The 2 books she mentions are:

Epiduralized Birth and Nurse-Midwifery: Childbirth in the United States. A Medical Ethnography First Edition by Maureen May PhD (Author)

Cassandra Aho, Midwife and owner of Midnight Midwifery discussed her journey to midwifery and her passion for educating others in Intimate partner violence. She brings her past experience into the birth work and how IPV impacts birthing families so greatly. Give this episode a listen and anticipate Cassandra's COURSE coming out very soon! Listen for details and find her at 

https://www.facebook.com/MidnightMidwifery/ 

email: [email protected] 

Stacy V, a CPM with over 30 years of experience in on the podcast today!! She is the owner of Oak Grove Midwifery in Wisconsin. She shares her journey of being a midwife in the early 90's and how that has shaped her calling today of archiving midwifery records! Here is a link below to her amazing presentation on the this future undertaking! https://www.powtoon.com/online-presentation/e0ylwpia73m/?mode=movie4

and a facebook inforgraphic.... https://www.facebook.com/motherofsalad/posts/10158841923591740