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The Full Story
About Me
I have been a nurse since 2018 and have worked all over the world in various medical and professional roles. I have always been interested in health and wellness, but my passion for birth work started while I was working in an indigenous community in Northern Quebec. I learned skills and heard stories from traditional midwives, and saw the impact that birthing in the community had on their local culture. Then, after returning from a mission with Doctors Without Borders I decided to consolidate more obstetrical skills by taking a nursing position in the labour and delivery ward of a high-risk hospital in Montreal. It was there that I discovered what the birthing experience is actually like for the majority of women, and realized how completely underprepared and unaware most women are about this process.
Although I was already very disillusioned by the medical system in general, the discrimination and abuse that I witnessed on a regular basis pushed me to find other ways of serving women and is how Pranamama birth was founded. I also began to seek out other local birth workers who were serving women outside of the system and took a Traditional Birth Attendant training in 2023. The same year I became pregnant unexpectedly and made the decision to freebirth my daughter at home, with no one else present. Although I had attended hundreds of births before my own, my personal experience was challenging, unique, and at the same time very similar to so many others. A few months postpartum I decided to advance my training and took the Radical Birth Keeper school. Today I continue to learn and study all things women’s and children’s health through motherhood and beyond.
