Dr. Rachel Moore is a physical therapist who specializes in pregnancy care, postpartum recovery, and pelvic health. Dr. Moore owns Disrupt Physiotherapy, a physical therapy and wellness practice located in Spring, Texas, where she offers services ranging from rehab of injuries and pelvic floor dysfunction to labor prep. She is a Houston area native, and returned back to the Houston area after a brief stint in DFW in 2014. She currently lives in Spring with her husband, two huskies, and her 9-month-old daughter, Olivia.
Rowan Two Sisters and her services as a Urban Curandera, Midwife, BodyWorker, Cofounder of Preggers CAN Be Choosers and Hottie Hooper Healer.
Rowan will tell us about CommonSense Childbirth preceptor program which she is applying to and the JJ Way led by Jennie Joseph.
Evaluations and studies have shown statistical significance for greater gestational age and birth weight of JJ Way® patients when compared to comparably matched women from the same demographic and zip codes.
Rowan will also tell us about her experience with STREAM (Scar Tissue Remediation, Education, and Management).
Lyndsey Hookway is a pediatric nurse, children’s public health nurse, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Holistic Sleep Coach, and birth trauma recovery practitioner. She has worked in hospitals, clinics, the community, and within clients’ homes for 20 years, serving within the UK NHS, in private practice, and voluntarily. Lyndsey’s new book, Let’s Talk About Your New Family’s Sleep, takes a fresh approach to helping families with a newborn with common challenges about sleep.
Jen Kamel helps perinatal professionals and cesarean parents achieve clarity on vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) through her online and in-person educational courses, training programs, and consulting services. As the founder of VBAC Facts® and a nationally recognized consumer advocate, her mission is to increase VBAC access through education, legislation, and amplifying the consumer voice. She speaks at conferences across the country, presents Grand Rounds at hospitals, advises advocates seeking legislative change in their state, and serves as a expert witness in legal proceedings. She envisions a time when every pregnant person seeking VBAC has access to unbiased information, respectful providers, and community support so they can plan the birth of their choosing in the setting they desire.
Mary Love: Clinical Director, Certified Nurse-Midwife, Family Nurse-Practitioner
Mary’s first encounter with a midwife was on the night she was born as she slipped into her mother’s awaiting hands. It was in her early 20s that she heard the call and set out on her own path to become a midwife, first attending workshops and assisting Pamela Hunt and the other midwives at The Farm. She received a bachelor’s degree in Nursing Science from Tennessee State University and her master’s degree in Nursing from Vanderbilt University. In addition to being a Certified Nurse-Midwife at Heart of Houston Birth Center, she is also a Family Nurse Practitioner with experience in pediatric primary, urgent, and emergency care. When not catching babies or thinking of ways to fix a particular problem, Mary enjoys cooking, gardening, sewing, and folding laundry. She is married and shares four wonderful children with her husband.
Jessica Gonzales: Facility Director, Doula
Jessica has worked in the field of women’s health for over 20 years. The midwives who mentored her taught her that pregnancy and birth should not be treated as an illness, but embraced as a transformative life event. Her experience includes medical office and lab administration as well as medical business startups. She trained as a midwife’s assistant in Summertown, Tennessee, with the midwives at The Farm. Jessica founded Village Birth and Babies, a full-service doula service for families in the Houston area. Jessica is the mother of two incredible little girls conceived via IVF and Reciprocal IVF. She is committed to reducing the maternal mortality rate in Houston by improving equal access to evidence-based care for people of color.
In honor of Recovery Month, we have as our guests Vanetta Peterson and Chris Ward of Houston’s Sober Recreation Committee. Vanetta and Chris fill us in on the importance of connection in recovery and ways the Sober Recreation Committee is helping those in recovery, and their families, build connections.
Jami Hain, MSN, CNM, is a Certified Nurse-Midwife and owner of Nativiti Family Birth Center. She has been married to the love of her life for 38 years and has two wonderful sons. She has been part of the Houston birth community for almost 20 years and has been a nurse and now a midwife at Nativiti for 18 years. She is fiercely passionate about providing personalized, evidence-based care to women and families in our community and empowering women through education and shared decision-making.
A certified nurse midwife and doctor, Andie has been in the Houston birth community for over 15 years. Her experience includes elementary school nursing, hospital labor and delivery, birth center, and home birth. Andie has been joyfully dating her husband of 19 years since junior high and has five children. Her passions beyond bellies, birth, and breastfeeding are mission work, reading, and movie theater popcorn.
A certified nurse midwife and women’s health nurse practitioner, Jaelin is honored to work with women and their families as they experience pregnancy, labor, birth, and the postpartum period. Jaelin followed her passion into midwifery and has been practicing with women and babies since 2010. She has spent the last 36 blissful years married to her high school sweetheart. She has three children and one grandchild. In addition to her passion for women’s health, she loves quilting, spends her spare time running the www.sheis.com website, and is enamored with her granddaughter. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree.
