
Rebecca Price-Wood, CPM, LM, NHCM - Certified NARM preceptor
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Here are some things I have learned about life and birth in the past 18 years as a
midwife and student midwife:
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1. Women, seemingly always in service to others, have endless abilities when others are
in service to them.
2. Babies are smart and I’ve been amazed ever since I was trained to listen.
3. Given all the information, women in my practice always make the best decisions for
their families.
4. When the labor partner is supported, a kind of trust is possible which creates a brand
new, luscious family dynamic.
5. Birth is awesome, but rarely baffling. Prenatal care that is optimally managed by the
client and midwife is the most control a person can have over their own birth.
6. Being a midwife is a kind of professional loving.
Postpartum care has comprised a large part of my continuing education. I have published works on the value of familial relationships as they inform postpartum psychological well- being, and I have also written works about the Maternal Mediation Hypothesis (how early maternal care and touch can have lifelong effects on the offspring’s nervous system.)
Other research interests are
Prenatal epigenetics
Effects of vitamin D deficiency on pregnancy and newborns
Postpartum PTSD.
I hold bachelor’s degrees in both Interpersonal Communications and Biology.
I have four children:
1. Elizabeth, whose birth awoke me to the crisis of gender inequality in medical care, and who allowed
me the honor of standing by her side when she gave birth to her own daughter
2. Lucy, whose home birth revealed to me the calling of midwifery
3. Ezra, who introduced me to the world of rare diseases
4. Baxter, who taught me to calculate due dates carefully!
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My husband, Dafydd, and I are holding it all together and living the dream in Chester, Vermont.