MEET YOUR MIDWIFE

April (she/her/hers) is a homebirth midwife serving the greater Austin area. She values informed decision-making and good communication with clients. She believes that each person holds a lifetime of wisdom, experience, and intuition that inform their choices, goals, and beliefs. She works to set aside preconceived notions at all times and to understand a client’s lived experience in order to facilitate the client’s desires for their birth.

Before she became a midwife, April worked as a doula for five years, attending hospital, birth center, and home births. She feels comfortable in many delivery settings and serving clients with different types of needs. Before transitioning to birth work, April worked as an attorney for the Texas Legislative Council where she wrote legislation for the Texas House of Representatives and Senate, focusing primarily on health law and policy. She advocated for improving social policies that affect new families, such as expanding paid parental leave policies, increasing funding for postpartum mood disorders, and strengthening medical services offered to women during pregnancy and the postpartum. She grew up in Charleston, South Carolina but has been living in Austin for 13 years.  She and her husband have been married for 10 years and have two beautiful boys who were both born at home with midwives.  April enjoys cooking, hiking, camping, volunteering with the Zach Theatre, international travel, and visiting national parks. She is a Broadway junkie, an avid reader of YA fiction, a lover of British movies and the Marvel Universe, and a passionate but completely unskilled dancer (Modern, Hip Hop, Ecstatic Dance).

Please contact me for a free consultation to see if we would be a good fit for care during your pregnancy.