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That’s me. My mom called me Liddy Biddy growing up.
I’m a lover, mother, and amateur homemaker on the regular. I’m a traditional midwife when I’m feeling spunky. Which is most days, holidays included.
Flash back to Christmas Eve 2018 @ 11PM, when I threw a spirited peace sign to my family singing carols by the fire and pranced out the door to a mama in labor. Spunky.
I bring my whole self to my midwifery work. Read this page in it’s entirety and get to know me well beyond my midwifery training. Maybe even like me; and if that’s the case, connect and start a chat. Chances are, I’ll like you too.
training + experience
I am an apprenticeship trained independent midwife, or Traditional Midwife (TM), specializing in home birth. This path of midwifery is referred to as Direct Entry Midwifery (DEM).
I completed a 4 year apprenticeship at a high-volume home birth practice — DawningLife Midwifery — in Marietta, GA under Debbie Schneider, CPM and Constance Conn, CPM.
My apprenticeship was undertaken in tandem with the Portfolio Evaluation Process (PEP) established by the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM). The PEP is a competency-based educational evaluation process that includes a Verification of Skills with a NARM Registered Preceptor.
Although, I met the requirements set forth by the PEP to become a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM), I ultimately decided to forgo this path, as it was out of alignment with core values I hold as a woman. This was a choice I deliberately made in early 2021 and I am happy to discuss the nuances of this decision with women who choose to consult with me.
As of 2024, I have attended 350+ births.
Of these births, ~70 have been in the role of doula and were not a part of my apprenticeship (although many overlapped timeline wise). Other births prior to 2021 were attended in the PEP Phase 1-4 Roles as an apprentice at Dawning Life Midwifery. This included 30+ births in the role of Primary Midwife throughout 2019-2021.
In February 2022, I decided to explore a solo practice in the West GA area and serve women in my community as a Traditional Midwife.
Since 2022, I have served 42 women (and counting) as a Primary Midwife.
To honor my desire for a regenerative and sustainable solo practice, I am highly selective. I do not practice midwifery at the expense of my vitality, my family, and the women I serve. I practice seasonally and enjoy months where I am not on-call. My MAX capacity is 2 births per month in the seasons I choose to practice.
(Read kind words from beautiful women I have witnessed, here.)
I am very active in pursuing continuing education and have also completed trainings in: neonatal resuscitation, biodynamic neonatal resuscitation, CPR, perinatal complications, IV therapy, birth emergency skills, pharmacology for midwives, community supported postpartum, prenatal yoga, applied quantum biology, prenatal energetic and herbal healing, the RCPI, and core rising somatics.
liddy herstory
1993 — 2013
I was born in Oklahoma on June 1st, 1993. Hours after my birth, I survived an EF4 tornado. This is when my subconscious founded the belief of “hey kid, you aren’t like everyone else.” It was true.
From the ages of 3-18, I lived in The Middle of Nowhere, Georgia, where I enjoyed a childhood free of TikTok.
When I was 12, I witnessed the birth of my sister from behind the lens of a 2001 Sony Handycam. It was visceral, but soon escaped me; like it never happened. Maybe it was puberty, when boys got interesting. Who knows?
At 19, I dropped out of Berry College and got engaged to my on-again, off-again high school sweetheart, Michael.
We moved to Texas to attend a Very Holy Seminary together. Newly engaged, we quite literally couldn’t keep our hands off each other. ‘Hand-holding’ is what Seminary People call a sin. SOS.
So we left, got married, and moved to the suburbs of Atlanta. I landed a nanny job for some millionaires and started making more money than I knew what to do with. That’s a lie. I knew exactly what to do with that money and I had the throw pillows to prove it.
2013 — 2016
I decided to go back to college. I was killing the nanny-game. I got paid to eat croissants and build lego-forts in a French Renaissance Castle while wine-tasting through the Loire Valley. This was the whole point of college - money + travel. So, I dropped out (again).
I went vegan. Contemplated divorce because vegans think they’re better than everyone. I lost sensation in my left shoulder and the only thing that cured it was Farm Burger. Bye bye, beans-n-kale. I took up ReWilding, became a coffee snob, started collecting acorns (& throw pillows), hosted 3 holy yoga workshops, ran a half marathon, and got 4 tattoos. Life was plumb.
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By 22, the memory of witnessing my mother ‘become a mother’ began to ravish me. My entire soul felt it was returning home in the wonderings of witnessing another birth.
I googled “want to attend births but not work for a hospital” LOL. 17 pages of nonsense articles later, I found the goldmine of Gloria Lemay and Mary Coley.
Life as I knew it was over. My 12 y/o inner child could rest; I was listening.
I was coming home.
Eden House (my first birth business) was born in the wake of my homecoming; making me full-blown millennial — working for myself, doing what I really loved! With no formal college degree!
So, in typical millennial fashion, I took an online course and became a BAI Certified Professional Doula.
This is a title I no longer identify with. But woohoo. At the time, I felt legit.
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In its infancy, Eden House existed as a space for me to blab about my newfound birth-y aspirations, while also selling soaps (& stuff) to my friends. Well, my friends, Maya Hawke, and Millie Bobby Brown.
Yes. You read that right. Once upon a time, Maya and Millie bought themselves a one-of-a-kind Eden House soap that was handmade in my mother’s basement by yours truly.
Nothing else mattered and I never sold soap again.
No, literally. The soap (& stuff) gig didn’t last. Clearly, I had peaked.
2016 — 2021
In 2016, after a 9-month stint of hospital trauma based doula work, I began a coveted home birth traditional midwifery apprenticeship at DawningLife Midwifery. My heart was materializing before my eyes. There were no words to encapsulate the depths of this opportunity.
The next 4 years were spent under the wise-woman mentorship of Debbie Schneider, CPM and Constance Conn, CPM. My apprenticeship blossomed with rich hands-on training, intensive academic and intuitive studies, and sacred birth witnessing.
I continued to serve women through Eden House as a doula, childbirth educator, and yoga instructor.
During this time, I was honored to sit at the feet of 200+ birthing women and learn the art of true midwifery care; an art that is nearly extinct in our modern world.
I completed my apprenticeship at DawningLife in the summer of 2020.
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Rewind to February 7th, 2020. The day I conceived my daughter, Johnny Love. She was all encompassing, a homecoming all her own. And once again, life as I knew it was over.
Wonderful. I’m crying. Sobbing. Omg.
I had a wild and spiritual pregnancy; everyday sweeter than the last.
Johnny Love came in October of 2020, while I knelt on the floor of my living room, surrounded by angels.
2021
Mothering Johnny Love thrust me into a terrifying yet fruitful season. 6 weeks after her birth, we discovered she was born with the genetic disease, cystic fibrosis.
For her sake, I dropped all plans of practicing midwifery. And instead, committed myself to higher learning and understanding of the body; how it functions, how it heals, and its intimate dependency on the natural world, the soul, and the Spirit.
I took up rigorous self study in epigenetics, bioenergetics, and quantum and circadian biology. This led me to becoming an RCPC at the Root Cause Protocol Institute, founded by Medical Researcher, Morley Robbins.
2022 — 2023
I continued/completed course study beneath Quantum Health pioneers Dr. Jack Kruse and Carrie Bennett MS, ACN, to further cultivate my knowledge in Applied Quantum Biology.
I came to believe that health is not solely dictated by a specific diet, lifestyle, mindset, therapy, movement, set of genetics, luck, whatever — but instead governed by coherence within the human organism; a coherence that is controlled and regulated by quantum energy and the laws of nature.
I consolidated this belief with tangible skills and decided it was time to integrate it beyond my family and into my work as a midwife.
I started attending births as a solo midwife and fell in love with midwifery all over again.
(Read kind words from beautiful women I have witnessed, here.)
I founded Liddy Midwifery.
I opened up my home to village prenatals/women’s circles with radical women.
I learned how to kill a sourdough starter.
My daughter nursed. Then turned 2. And nursed more.
I went to Crossfit for 13 days.
I got a sea shell tattoo.
Saw every day as holy.
today
Today is (was) April 3rd, 2023 at 12:05AM.
I spent today in a butter stained t-shirt, avoiding negligible chores, sunbathing/chasing lizards off the porch with Johnny Love, and prepping for a glorious women’s circle. My life is the sweetest medicine.
I’m on call for two births and should NOT be up this late. Guess I’ll wrap it up.
A lot has changed through the years, but I’m still not like everyone else; Michael and I still can’t keep our hands off of each other; and witnessing births is still visceral.
I love where I’ve been, where I’m at, and where I’m headed.
It’s a good life.
XO