Why choose a Traditional Lay Midwife (TM)?
This is a woman who has apprenticed with an experienced midwife or is self taught by assisting women during childbirth and may have attended additional workshops and classes to supplement her education or she may have attended a school. Her focus is on homebirth or birth center births. She may be affiliated with a physician, but she is not under the physician’s directive. She chooses not to be certified to not be regulated by modern politics or obstetrical practices. A TM doesn’t use preform obstetrical procedures or use its tools. Because of a TM’s education and path into midwifery, she is best suited for assisting at homebirths. A TM is dedicated to helping a woman achieve a safe and natural pregnancy, which is free of interventions, invasive exams, multiple tests, time constraints and the personal agenda of the persons assisting at the birth. She wants you to be educated about your body, childbirth and breastfeeding. She wants you to take responsibility for your prenatal and postnat
