Please visit my website at www.nekansashomebirth.com for more information.

Northeast Kansas Homebirth Service is operated by Anita Woods, a Christian midwife offering homebirth care to families in Kansas City and northeastern Kansas. I believe in warm, nurturing care that encompasses a woman’s whole being—physically, emotionally and spiritually. I trust in God’s design for birth, and am trained to provide tender, non-interventive midwifery care at home.

Natural childbirth is safest for the vast majority of babies and mothers, and the vast majority of women are fully capable of giving birth naturally, normally, and joyfully if given proper education, strong emotional support, and allowed to labor and birth spontaneously. Because a woman’s body was designed for giving birth in a timely and safe manner, medical intervention is often unnecessary and perhaps even detrimental. As such, I conform to a loving, attentive, “wallflower” style of midwifery, practicing the art of invisibility at birth, avoiding intrusion into a mother’s space, and using prayer, herbs, chiropractic and nutrition for health and healing.

Part of my job is to assist parents in making informed decisions with confidence and parental responsibility. Parents should be empowered to make informed decisions on their child’s behalf and have those decisions respected by their birth team. I promote comprehensive, family-oriented, natural childbirth classes, and further encourage parents to seek out and assemble a birth team who supports these views. I advocate informed decisions throughout the life of the child, including homeschooling, full quiver, extended/tandem nursing, cloth-diapering, non-circumcision and delayed or non-vaccination. If there is anything I can do to help you in these parenting choices, please contact me.

I have completed the application process to become a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) and will sit for the final exam August 2007 as well as graduating Ancient Art Midwifery Institute in 2007. A large portion of my clinical experience was obtained at Mercy Maternity Center, a Christian charity birth center in the Philippines, operated by NewLife International School of Midwifery. Additionally, I apprenticed with Heartland Midwifery, a nurse-midwifery home birth practice, and I am certified in adult/pediatric CPR and neonatal resuscitation from the American Red Cross. I am a two-time cesarean survivor and VBAC mom, sat on the Board of Directors of the International Cesarean Awareness Network for six years, am a current ICAN Professional Subscriber, and have had a home waterbirth VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean).

For your free consultation or for a list of references, please call me at (816)392-2555 or send me an email (above) to schedule an appointment. Thank you, and I look forward to serving you and your family!

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