Deb knew birth work was her passion when her roommate/best friend asked her to be at the birth of her first child in 2004.  Shortly after that birth she married her husband, became pregnant with her first son in 2005 and completed her family with her fourth boy, born at home, in 2014.  Deb has been teaching The Bradley Method classes since 2012 and trained in placenta encapsulation in 2016.  In 2012 Deb was also a surrogate for her niece Kya.  Unfortunately Kya was only with us on this earth for a short 45 minutes after birth.  Since then Deb has been the regional coordinator/volunteer with Sufficient Grace Ministeri’s where she offers support to families going through pregnancy and infant loss through photography and birth support.  Along with being a birth doula, bereavement doula, placenta encapsulation specialist, monitrice and birth educator, Deb is now a student midwife.  She will begin taking on a primary roll sometime in 2024 and hopefully sit the NARM exam to become a CPM by 2025.  When Deb isn’t doing birth work she enjoys spending time on their farm taking care of all of the goats, pigs, rabbits, ducks, chickens, dogs and cats.  She also loves to garden, can, go hunting, fishing, camping and watching her four boys ride their dirt bikes.  Along with showing in 4H, playing travel baseball, football and the family favorite, wrestling.  If you ever find her taking a vacation it is either on a cruise ship with her girlfriends, to the UP of Michigan with her family or in Kentucky traveling the bourbon trails collecting bottles along the way.  Deb knows what a sacred space she is coming in to when supporting our clients.  Her goal is to be your tour guide through this process, however you decide to birth, so everyone comes out on the other side empowered knowing they had the best birth experience they could have had.