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Ina May is often referred to as the most famous midwife in America. She is founder and director of the Farm Midwifery Center, located near Summertown, Tennessee. She has lectured all over the world at midwifery conferences and at medical schools, both to students and to faculty. The Farm is noted for its low rates …
Celebrating the Legacy of Michel Odent Michel Odent, MD, OB/GYN, has been presented in the Lancet as “one of the last real general surgeons.” He directed the surgical and maternity units of the Pithiviers hospital in France from 1962-1985, where he introduced the concepts of home-like birthing rooms, birthing pools, and singing sessions for pregnant …
Karen Lai is certified with BirthWorks International® as well as NACE Australia. Karen facilitates workshops within Cert IV Workplace Training standards. Karen is an AHPRA Registered Nurse-Midwife in clinical practice as well as in Midwifery Education and is currently based in Hobart. Karen has post graduate qualifications through UTAS, is an accredited Neuro-Linguistic Programming trainer …
Tia is BirthWorks International Coordinator for Asia, and she is from Indonesia. She holds a Masters degree from Northumbria University, UK. She is a certified yoga instructor through Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (India), a prenatal yoga and postnatal yoga from Birthlight (UK), and a Birthworks International Certified Childbirth Educator~CCE(BWI) and Certified Birth Doula~CBD(BWI). She …
Emily lives in Dallas, TX with her husband and two daughters. Her Postpartum Doula journey with BirthWorks began after the birth of her first daughter in 2016. Inspired to be a doula, after discovering her desire to support new mothers, she encourages the women she serves to tap into their own intuition as well. She …
Kathy brings a wonderful perspective to BirthWorks, as she has a long interest in women’s issues and education. As a child, she was intrigued with human rights and went on to study Anthropology and Women’s Studies at San Diego State University, as well as working on her Masters in Education. She gave birth to her …
Jill is passionate about helping parents and their babies get the best start in life. She is an advocate, a voice for the newborn. She received her Teachers Diploma from the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 1983. She taught in Zimbabwe and South Africa and lectured at the teachers training college. She has …
Liz O’Shea, Midwife and CCE(BWI), began her midwifery journey out of a deep desire to share the joy of birthing at home. She wanted all women to experience what it is like to feel the innate power within them to give birth. Following her first home birth in 1982, she began studying to be a …
Dr. Horatio (Raysh) Daub, MD, MPH, received his first degree in Civil Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and went on to earn his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA, USA. He then completed a residency in Family Medicine at Overlook Hospital in Summit, NJ, USA. He later received …
Suzanne Arms is is a practical visionary for transformation. Through seven groundbreaking books including Immaculate Deception: A New Look at Women & Childbirth (1975) and Immaculate Deception II: Myth, Magic & Birth (1997), and her far-reaching video Giving Birth: Challenges & Choices, she inspires practitioners toward holistic care and empowers parents to chose their birthplace. …
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