Assisting mothers and families in Northern Mississippi to have the birthing experience they desire.

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Name: Meg Hayden
Location: Water Valley, Mississippi
Phone: (662) 473-9627
Email address: mamatotobirthing@hotmail.com

Services: 1)lending library of books and videos. 2)two prenatal visits -- usually lasting about 1 1/2 hours -- two hours a piece. They may include as much educational material or practice as you wish. 3) one post-partum visit. 4) 24 hour on call two weeks prior to your estimated due date. 5) Unlimited phone consultations. 6) professional labor support -- I will assist you for a home birth or hospital birth. For hospital births I will assist you at home for as long as you wish, then transfer with you to the hospital and attend you there.( I am not a primary care provider for home birth) While attending you I use massage, positions, constant emotional support, etc. to help you through labor. 7) I will take pictures of the birth at your request.

Qualifications: I have helped a number of families during chilbirth both in the hospital and at home since 1999, and I continue to do this. I am currently finishing my certifiction as a labor assistant and also seeking my childbirth education certification through ALACE. I am practicing as a labor assistant free of charge until my certification is complete! I attended a week long intensive midwife assistant workshop with Ina May Gaskin and The Farm Midwives in Tennessee last August. I also gain experience assisting traditional midwife Norma Clark with her clients throughout North Mississippi.

Personal notes: I was born in Annapolis, Maryland and lived there until I moved to Oxford, Mississippi in 1995. I attended Ole Miss and received my Bachelor of Arts in English in 1999. After graduating I spent about a year traveling and working. I also applied to join the Mississippi Teacher Corps, a program that pays for you to get a Masters degree in curriculum instruction, while you teach for two years in a low income public school in Mississippi. I was accepted and taught 9th and 11th grade social studies in Marshall County for those two years.