The Sacred Birth Story: Reclaiming Birth as a Rite of Passage
Sacred Birth Midwifery was founded on the belief that birth is one of the most profound experiences we can have as women and as a species. We’re here to reclaim birth as a sacred spiritual process, honoring the ancient wisdom of midwifery while providing modern clinical expertise rooted in trust and autonomy.
Your Birth, Your Way, Held in Sacred Space
Why Sacred Birth Midwifery Exists: Returning Birth to Women
Sacred Birth Midwifery was born from the vision that birth is one of the most important things we can do as women and as a species. We’re about reclaiming birth as a sacred rite of passage and a spiritual process for women and families. We believe that birth is a normal physiological process that sometimes requires medical expertise, but isn’t inherently a medical event.
Before modern times and the creation of obstetrics, birth was always considered a sacred event… an event led and held by women. The first birth attendant was a woman. She was the healer, wisdom keeper, and the original professional birth attendant. Midwives, and women, have always been skilled, trained, and knowledgeable in birth. Birth has always been a women-centered event, led and owned by the women birthing themselves. It wasn’t feared and outsourced to medical professionals and hospitals the way it is today.
This is the art of true and traditional midwifery practice that Sacred Birth Midwifery was born to reclaim. We believe that by using our skills in both modern and ancient medicine and ways of knowing and healing, we’ll return birth where it belongs… to the mothers and to the families.
Our approach to care is rooted in true informed consent, because we believe education and knowledge are power. And that power is grounded when combined with a mother’s intuition and inner knowing. Our training combined with the relationships we create with mothers and families is what keeps women, pregnancy, birth, and babies safe. A well mother is a well baby, and we believe that the safest thing we can do to care for babies and for birth is to care first for mothers.
Our care is woman and mother-centered. Our postpartum care is done entirely in the family’s home for the first 40 days, and Closing of the Bones ceremonies are offered to honor not just the physical but also the spiritual and emotional healing and returning of the woman after birth.
Sacred Birth Midwifery is about more than just birth… it’s about the collective reclamation of true healing and the returning of the sacred to our everyday life. As Michel Odent famously said, “To change the world we must first change how babies are being born.” Birth and midwifery are a way of life. They’re spiritual practices, sacred initiations, and human rites of passage. We can’t begin to understand the true meaning of life until we return the true meaning to birth.
