...because each baby has only one opportunity to be born

About Nancy

Nancy graduated with honors from her midwifery programs and trained in a variety of settings including  birth centers and midwifery schools in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Jamaica. She co cofounded the first cesarean prevention organization in the world and her work is being archived at the Schlesinger Womens' History Library at Harvard University.

Nancy is a member of the Massachusetts Midwives Alliance and the North American Registry of Midwives, and is  an internationally known and sought-after childbirth speaker. She trains student midwives and  teaches a variety of workshops (view a list here). She will be leading on line classes in 2011. In 2011 Nancy was selected as one of Mothering Magazine's "Living Treasures." Click here to read the article (pdf).

Nancy coined the term VBAC ( vaginal birth after cesarean) and has written two books on cesarean prevention. "Silent Knife" won an award for The Best Book in the Field of Health and Medicine by the American Library Association the year it was written. She loves what she does, feels privileged to attend births and since the beginning of her training, has been present at over 1600 births.

Click here to read a letter from Nancy