We are starting a Local chapter of Florida Friends of Midwives (FFOM) at the Educated Mama in Sanford. Our first meeting will be on Friday June 20th at 11 am. All are welcome. Refreshments will be served. Please encourage your midwives, doulas, friends, and family to attend. We will discuss different fundraising ideas as well [...]
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Got this in my inbox and wanted to share:
Many of you are supporters of normal birth and appreciate the accessibility of birth center and homebirth care in Florida. Here we enjoy legal homebirth, numerous birth centers, and mandatory Medicaid and insurance coverage of licensed midwife and nurse midwifery care. We also have two active midwifery [...]
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My family used Kelli Johnson as our midwife for our last pregnancy and home/waterbirth. My husband was originally a bit stand-offish on the idea of a homebirth until our initial consultation with Kelli. She was a paramedic for over 10 years and is still sometimes called in to help out when crisis situations arise and [...]
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