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Anne Hirsch, LM, CPM
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At 22 years of age I was invited to be present at a home birth. What a profound experience that was. A deep peace stayed with me for days afterwards. At that birth, I decided I wanted to be a midwife. I used midwifery care for the birth of my own daughter a few years later and when my daughter was seventeen, I found my way into midwifery school in Florida.
For the last 10 years, I’ve been a natural birth midwife both at home and in birth centers. Along the way, additional training enriched my ability to care for women.
The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy taught how to help women relieve the aches and pains some experience in pregnancy and to help the baby get into an optimal position for labor. For more information on this technique you can click here to read an article I wrote for Midwifery Today.
Yoga also helps relieve aches and pains and prepares the body for labor. Yoga is valuable tool for preparing you to cope with the strenuous work of labor/birth. Five years ago a back injury left me in severe pain for eight months. I cured the pain with yoga. I learned that yoga is not about getting deeply into amazing postures, but rather a process of getting to know your body and helping it relax and strengthen in areas where it most needs relief. I became a yoga teacher so I could share what I had learned with women during their pregnancies. What a boon it is to teach pregnant women how to give themselves relief on a daily basis.
Vimala Schneider was the pioneer of Infant Massage in the USA. I trained with her and have been instructing parents in the art of massaging their babies for over 26 years. This gentle process brings you into even more direct contact with your little one, slowing you both down so that you can connect deeply with each other. During the first year of her life I massaged my daughter on a daily basis. Little miracles of connection taught me how to support her Spirit in reaching its full potential.
My work as a midwife is aimed at supporting you to take charge of your maternity by sharing techniques that allow you to care for yourself and your growing baby. Pregnancy is such a wonderful adventure. It is my joy to encourage and support mamas & daddies through your passage into parenthood.
Send Anne a note if you are interested in prenatal yoga or infant massage or ask her at your next visit.
Beth Coyote, LM, CPM
Anne Hirsch, LM, CPM
Lynn Hughes, LM
Brenda Bancroft, Office Manager
Our Birth Assistants
"My work as a midwife is aimed at supporting you to take charge of your maternity by sharing techniques that allow you to care for yourself and your growing baby." - Anne Hirsch
