Shoshanah Blaiss
IBCLCB
I first felt called to women’s work after my daughter was born in 2011. My first birth experience (2009) was long & lonely, ultimately ending in a cesarean. I felt it was something that happened to me, not something I did. My second birth, a hospital VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean), was completely different. It changed me. I walked away from that pregnancy & birth feeling empowered, listened to, and loved because of the care I received from my nurse-midwife. I felt passionate about becoming a midwife one day so that I could do for other women what my midwife had done for me.
After our experience with our second birth, my husband and I chose to have a homebirth for our third child in 2012, and completed our family with the birth of our fourth child in 2015 (with Debbie - read about it HERE).
I graduated from Frontier Nursing University in 2018 with my master’s degree in nurse-midwifery. I am nationally certified and hold licenses as both an RN and a Certified Nurse-Midwife in the State of Georgia.
I am an active member of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, the Midwives Alliance of North America, & the Georgia Midwifery Association.
I like to call myself a “community midwife”, because my goal is to provide a full-spectrum of care to the women & families I serve. In addition to midwifery, I have a special passion for postpartum, perinatal mood & anxiety disorders, and breastfeeding. I am an IBCLC with almost 10 years of experience, specializing in tongue ties & oral motor dysfunction.
My favorite thing about midwifery is watching families be born. It is such a blessing to be given the opportunity to take this journey with them.