I graduated from the Florida School of Traditional Midwifery and became a Florida Licensed Midwife in 2022; with experience attending births in hospitals, birth centers, and home birth settings.  I have since relied on the intuition instilled within my lineage as the great-great-granddaughter of a Puerto Rican traditional midwife and the knowledge passed onto her from each midwife she has learned from, to advocate for each family she serves through informed decision making to maintain a safe and inclusive birth experience.

 

My call to be a midwife first rang when I became a big sister and my mom had her successful VBAC.  I began walking in midwifery many years later after witnessing a close friend and doula client receive neglectful care during her childbirth experience due to racial bias. My passion for normalizing birth and educating families stems from the need for advocacy and representation in the birth space to lessen disparities associated with maternal and fetal mortality rates, particularly for Black and Brown families. Establishing cultural, emotional, and medical safety are ongoing priorities of mine; in an effort to allow families to focus on mental and physical preparations for labor, delivery, and postpartum. Helping families feel confident through education, validating their perinatal experience, and giving encouragement through reassurance paves the way for a stronger community birth experience; and I am thankful to play a small part in each birth story.

 

I take pride in helping to oversee a safe, educated, comforting, judgment-free space to uncover and unleash the power within to bring forth new life. I base the way I practice in loving on my clients, laughing away our prenatal/postpartum visits (although sometimes we also cry), quietly watching with admiration as my clients do extraordinary things, navigating fully informed shared decision making as the need arises, and sometimes having pretty difficult conversations about finding your inner peace as you become someone new (because even though babies are born, parents are born and reborn again). All of this while monitoring for underlying health conditions and providing extra support through community resources.

 

The name, Mother of Thousands Midwifery, is named after the plant, Mother of Thousands (Kalanchoe daigremontiana). Its leaves grow flowers along the edges, and upon detachment from the mother plant, it grows a new Mother of Thousands plant where it lands. This aligns with my personal aspiration to leave a little bit of love everywhere I go. I received my first Mother of Thousands plant in my first year as a Licensed Midwife as a gift at a home visit by a Client’s mother who very fondly reminded me of my grandmother. That visit was when I first realized I would serve my community best with my own home birth practice, and I am humbled to watch this dream unfold.

 

Outside of my commitment to Mother of Thousands Midwifery, I am proud to serve as the Clinical Consultant of the Central Florida Birth Network, providing guidance for CFBN initiatives from the clinical perspective while navigating professional and collaborative approaches to tackling intersectional issues with attaining equitable healthcare. I also am a member of the Orange County, FL Branch of the NAACP, an active UCF AlumKnight (Go Knights!), and I have loved working at national and local levels within my sorority, Mu Sigma Upsilon, for over 10 years. When I’m not wearing any hats, you can find me hiking, working with my plants in my beginners garden, at the beach, on a road trip with my family, or with my Godchildren.

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I am honored to work with some of the best Midwife Assistants in the world! These beautiful humans have been attending births with me to help ensure experiences are safe and peaceful. Feel free to read a bit more about them below: