“You can be trained to become a midwife, and then you can be called to be The Midwife.” Eileen Stewart
In this interview, Eileen Stewart shares her journey to becoming a midwife, and how her own experiences giving birth led to her decide to become a midwife. Eileen explains her unique approach to supporting women through pregnancy and birth, how she helps women get in touch with what they want in regards to their birth experience, and how she herself used Equine Therapy in order to empower herself and become more embodied.
What’s next for Eileen? Eileen shared several of the community projects she intends to birth, including continuing her work improving birth outcomes, especially for People of Color and working with local obstetricians to infuse a midwifery model of care into the hospital system. When asked what it will take to help shift physicians into a midwifery mindset, she says the shift isn’t actually that significant because these professionals have already been called to the…
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