It’s time to introduce our Student Midwive, Hannah!
Hannah has been passionate about birth since her teens when she started studying independently. First deciding to go to college, she majored in psychology, 2 years in she decided to go with her heart and change gears.
The first change was marrying her high school sweetheart in 2015. They welcomed their first child, a baby boy, after a long and traumatic birth in 2016.
They then decided to be foster parents and through that welcomed a baby girl to their family through adoption in 2018.
2019 was the year Hannah began apprenticing with a homebirth midwife and was in awe of how different birth could be.
Soon after she enrolled in midwifery school while continuing to apprentice intermittently and completing doula training through Cardinal Birth, placenta encapsulation through H.E.R.B.A.L., and becoming certified in both neonatal resuscitation and CPR.
In March of 2022, a baby girl was welcomed into the family in a very peaceful home birth.
Hannah lives deep in the woods overlooking the Allegheny River where she homeschools her children and in her spare time sews for the small handmade shop she and her husband own.
Once Hannah’s practice and training are complete, she will become a full-fledged practicing midwife within Pittsburgh Midwife and Co.!