We’re Ready to Receive a Student!

Birth at Home Midwifery Services is ready to receive a new midwifery student! If you’re interested in the opportunity, email Megan at birthathomemidwiferyservices@gmail.com by Sunday, May 15! Megan will respond to all queries with further information by May 18! Kim Woodard Osterholzer, Colorado Springs Homebirth Midwife and Author. And Grandma ♥ Books by Kim: Homebirth:[…]

Happy BirthDay, Hannah Evangeline

Twenty-seven years ago, at 119 Iroquois Street in Battle Creek, Michigan, in the chilly, snowy, wee hours of Sunday, December 8th, 1991, Hannah Evangeline Woodard–now Simmons–burst into the world. This is the story of her birth, as told in my book, A Midwife in Amish Country. Three months after our autumn wedding, Brent quit his job[…]

Mothering a Midwife

3:49 a.m., Saturday morning, October 27th The jangling of my telephone jolted me awake. “Mom—I just hit another deer.” … I’m incredibly proud of my daughter, Hannah Simmons, one of southwest Michigan’s handful of wonderful homebirth midwives. … Hannah tagged along to a number of births through her girlhood—invited by expectant mothers in hopes her[…]