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The goats have no midwives. The sheep have no midwives. When the goat is pregnant she is safely delivered. When the sheep is pregnant she is safely delivered. You, in this state of pregnancy, will be safely delivered. — Recited by the village midwives and elders among the African Yoruba
Tammi McKinley
- Licensed Midwife, State of Virginia
- Certified Professional Midwife
- Past President, Virginia Midwives Alliance
- Past Member, Virginia Maternal Mortality Review Team
- Past Member, Virginia State Certified Doula Taskforce
- Hypnotherapist
- Past Certified HypnoBirthing® Practitioner
- Co-Director, Third International Breech Birth Conference in November, 2012
- 2011, Trained student midwives in Jacmel, Haiti
- 2007 Midwives Alliance of North America Sapling Award recipient
- 2005, Clinical experience in Belize
- 2005 Midwifery Options for Mothers Award Recipient
- Founder, Northern Virginia Homebirth Group
- Member, Midwives Alliance of North America
- Member, The Lactation Consultant Association of Greater Washington
- Member, Birth Matters VA
- Member, ICAN of Northern Virginia – Tammi reactivated this chapter in 2002
- Member, White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood
- Published in Midwifery Today: Stillbirth – A Journey in Birth
- Published in Washington Families, Washington Examiner, Birthing, The Clarion, and Birth Works® National Newsletter
- Quoted in Get Through Childbirth in One Piece! (Bruce)
- Quoted in “Keep Your Homebirth at Home,” by Lora Shinn, Mothering, Sept/Oct 2008
- Quoted in Fit Pregnancy (April/May 2002)
I have a Master’s Degree in Public Administration – so how did I get from there to here? Read My First Birth Experience. |
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