Nurturing Your Birth Your Way

It is my mission to provide trusted support throughout your entire maternity journey. I honor your unique hopes and empower your physiologic birth, offering you guidance and compassionate care from pregnancy through the postpartum period.

My Services

  • Our time together is spent building a deep relationship of trust. Prenatal visits focus on your physical, emotional, and mental well-being.

    • Convenient Office Visits: Routine visits are held at my Bloomington, IL office. We meet every 4 weeks until 28 weeks, bi-weekly until 36 weeks, and weekly until you give birth. After 36 weeks, routine visits will take place in the comfort of your own home.

    • Unhurried Appointments: Plenty of time at each visit to discuss your nutrition, lifestyle, questions, and emotional health alongside clinical assessments.

    • Birth Preference Mapping: Focused sessions to help you develop a written birth preference plan, clarifying your deepest hopes, values, and desires for your labor and birth.

    • 36-Week Home Visit: An in-depth, in-home prenatal visit at 36 weeks to assess your birth space, review your home birth kit, and prepare your practical logistics.

    • 24/7 On-Call Support: Continuous availability for urgent questions or concerns.

  • When labor begins, I bring a calm, supportive, and safety-conscious presence directly to your home, ensuring a peaceful environment for your family.

    • Continuous Active Labor Care: Hands-on clinical and emotional support through active labor, birth, and the immediate golden hour.

    • Collaborative Birth Team: Attendance by myself and a qualified assistant to ensure optimal safety for you and your baby.

    • Freedom of Movement: Full support for water birth, hydrotherapy, positioning, and comfort measures tailored to your unique labor pattern.

    • Immediate Postpartum & Newborn Exam: Delayed cord clamping, physiological third stage, and a gentle, comprehensive newborn physical exam done right at your bedside.

  • My care does not end when your baby arrives. I provide close, nurturing support as you transition into parenthood.

    • Early Postpartum Home Visits: Immediate postpartum care after birth as well as a 24 hour in-home visit to monitor healing, latch, and mother/baby transition.

    • Continued Follow-Ups: In-home visits at 2 weeks and 1 in-office visit at 6 weeks to evaluate physical recovery, mental wellness, and infant weight gain.

    • Lactation Support: Holistic breastfeeding guidance, troubleshooting, and education.

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Hi, I’m Amie — a certified nurse midwife with over 25 years of experience in maternity care.

I first heard God’s call to become a home birth midwife in 1994 when I birthed my first child in the comfort of my own home with a loving and capable midwife by my side. I went on to experience another wonderful home birth with my second child.  I began faithfully serving in obstetrics in 1997 and midwifery specifically starting in 2002.

Trust is at the center of my practice, and my clients are like family to me. There is nothing more deeply moving to me than making a difference in the life of each woman and family I serve.

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“God is within her, she will not fall.”

Psalm 46:5

  • What Others Are Saying

    “This was my first home birth & water birth. It was amazing, powerful and memorable, but most of all it was reassuring. I say that because my entire prenatal care was filled with love, kindness, patience, and reassurance from Amie. Trust was built and that's the key to any good patient caregiver relationship, trust.”

    — Nikki B.

    Former Client

  • What Others Are Saying

    “She is such a skilled midwife, which I have experienced personally and witnessed professionally numerous times. Her intuition, attentiveness, quick action, and joy are some of her strongest assets! When you are in Amie’s care, you will be quick to trust her knowledge, advice and expertise.”

    — Shannon Bacus

    Local Doula & Birth Assistant

  • What Others Are Saying

    “Where do I begin!? This lady is amazing! My experience with Amie was my first home birth, but third child and I've never felt so confident in myself during pregnancy and birth. Her encouragement is unending and her calm nurturing personality was a perfect match for us.”

    —Kim P.

    Former Client

  • What Others Are Saying

    “Kind, warm, caring, motherly, confident, experienced. Those are all words that describe Amie and her loving care. She goes above and beyond and loves her families like her own”

    — Kara Sylvester

    Local IBCLC

Let’s honor your birth vision together.

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