“In all cultures, the midwife’s place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible physical power-enable a new human being to emerge. Her vocation is unique.” – Sheila Kitzinger
The Midwives
Jenn DeWaard, LM,CPM
Jenn (She/Her) started as a CBE and doula in 2007 and in 2015 began her path towards midwifery. She was apprentice trained under West Michigan Midwifery and completed the PEP process and passed her NARM exam in 2019. She went on to complete her Bridge Certificate and received her state license in 2019. She continued to work with the practice that trained her until 2022 when she branched off to form Bloom Midwifery. In 2023 She became the new Owner of Nine Short Months (Now Bloom Birth and Wellness Center)
Savannah Stone,
LM, CPM
Savannah (She/Her), was born and raised in SW Montana. In 2014, she decided to “answer the call” and pursue a career in out-of-hospital midwifery. She enrolled in the midwifery program at Birthingway College of Midwifery in 2014 and began the process towards becoming a competent, skilled and community-centered midwife. After earning her Bachelor’s degree at Birthingway, she moved to Detroit, MI in 2018 to complete her clinical training and licensure process.
To her, being a midwife is a form of activism and an active practice towards reproductive justice. She believes that midwifery is a labor of love, one of radical advocacy and compassion. Her core value as a midwife is to provide evidence-based and trauma-informed care to individuals regardless of where they fall on the reproductive spectrum, and to implement midwifery as a form of reparations to the community. It is her goal to continue to bring vibrance, empathy and deep reverence to this work.