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I can’t tell you how much I’m in love with life! I have an exceptional family including our Golden Retriever, Sunny Day, our Coonhound, Annie, 30 goats, chickens, a Haurizo named Cocoa, and a fulfilling career that I can easily and joyously wake at 2 AM to venture into the cold New England weather for! In past careers I’d slowly drag myself out of bed and sneer at the winter wonderland during morning commutes. But today when I get the call to join a couple ready to meet their new addition, I leap out of bed, dress in a jiff, and excitedly travel countless miles to reach them!

I was inspired to birth work after spending cozy nights listening to my mother’s vivid birth stories. I was the last of 4 children and recall my mother gleaming with love and pride when she shared her stories, confessing, “You’ll never fully understand what love is until you have children of your own.”

​The day I met Brendon in January 2003, I knew I would marry him. And we’ve walked every winding path of life together since. We have 2 incredibly smart and witty children — they must get the quick wit from their dad because I’m a total nerd! 

​Merrick’s birth was a planned home birth-hospital non-emergent transfer in 2011. In that hospital room along with a Midwife-turned-doula, Nurse Midwife, and my husband, I birthed my sweet boy along with a new definition of love — unconditional and beyond comprehension.  And it was then that my mother’s words deeply resonated.

In 2013, our daughter Everleigh was born into my husband’s hands – experiencing the beautiful home water birth we wished for. It was simultaneously peaceful, and yet wild! I was grateful to have my son present during labor and birth, and looking back, making extra effort to have my mom witness it before her passing really puts a perfect little bow on it all. 

When I’m not spending time with birthing families, I’m is deeply involved in my own, both at home on the farm and with my extended family in church where we have in past participated in music ministry and children’s studies.

View more about our family here at Imperfect Joy by Melody Joy.