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You teach informed consent.
Before you make any decision about how you serve — fear and panic are not your guides.
You have spent years teaching families to pause, to ask questions, to understand their options before they choose. You have sat across from women and walked them through every path — the risks, the benefits, the implications — so they could make a decision that was truly theirs. And yet when it comes to your own practice — your own autonomy, your own future — many of us have made decisions in a moment of fear. A knock at a door. A threat from a licensing board. A colleague who got in trouble. A state that changed its laws overnight. Fear and panic are not your guides. They are your enemies. This space exists to give you what fear never could: solid ground, real information, and the clarity to make a decision that is actually yours.
There are three paths available to every midwife:
Licensing — you are permitted to serve within a defined scope, under the authority of a certifying body and your state. You have traded a measure of autonomy for a measure of protection. But do you know exactly what you traded? And what it costs the families you serve?
LLC — you have a business structure that offers some liability protection. But do you know what that structure does to the private nature of your relationship with the families you serve? And what it signals to the state about who you are and how you operate?
Unlicensed private service — you are operating outside the public regulatory system, grounded in your constitutional rights (US), the UDHR, or the Canadian Charter of Rights. There is no path that removes all risk. But there is a path built on solid ground, real knowledge, and clear eyes. Most midwives have never had all three of these options laid out honestly in front of them. Most midwives made their choice — whatever it was — with incomplete information, under pressure, or in a moment of fear. This is where that changes.
When fear is driving, we make decisions that protect us from the feeling — not decisions that align with our calling. We get licensed because we are afraid of what happens if we don't — not because we understand what licensing actually means for our autonomy and the families we serve.
We form an LLC because someone told us it would protect us — not because we understand what that structure actually communicates to a state that is looking for a reason to regulate us.
We walk away from midwifery altogether because we cannot find solid ground — not because we were never called.
I want to ask you something. Sit with it before you answer.
When you made the decision you made about how to practice — was it made from knowledge? Or from fear?
There is no judgment in that question. I made decisions from fear too. This space is for the midwife who is ready to revisit that decision with clear eyes.
When you made the decision you made about how to practice — was it made from knowledge? Or from fear?
Before you join the community. Before you book a call. Before you do anything else — Watch this video. In it I walk you through the landscape every midwife needs to understand: what licensing actually means, what the Constitution actually says, what your real options actually are — and why fear has been keeping you from seeing all of them clearly. It is free. It is honest. And it will give you a foundation nothing else in this space can give you if you skip it.
No opt-in required. Just press play.
Come in and take your time.
The Informed Midwife community is a private space where midwives are exploring these questions together — without judgment, without pressure, without anyone telling them what to choose.
Inside you will find:
Membership is free to start. Come in whenever you are ready.
Come in and let's explore together.
If you are ready to sit down and look at your specific situation — your vision for service, your current structure, your state or country, your concerns — I am ready to explore it with you. A discovery session is not a sales call. It is exactly what it sounds like: a conversation where we explore your options alongside the vision you have for the service you provide. Together. Without pressure. From there you will know exactly what your next step is — whatever that looks like for you.
You were called.
Midwifery predates every government that has ever existed on this earth. It predates licensing boards. It predates certification bodies. It predates statutes. What you do is ancient. What you carry is sacred. And the decision about how you carry it deserves to be made with full knowledge — not fear, not panic, not pressure from a system that was never designed with you or the families you serve in mind. You already know how to serve. Now know where you stand.