The primary midwife of Northeast Kansas Homebirth Service is Anita Woods, a direct-entry midwife certified by the North American Registry of Midwives as a Certified Professional Midwife, certified by the American Heart Association/American Academy of Pediatrics in neonatal resuscitation, and the only Christian midwife in Kansas City who is a graduate of a professional direct-entry midwifery school, AncientArt Midwifery Institute. Anita's training included working with a Certified Nurse-Midwife as a homebirth apprentice, and a large portion
of her clinical experience was obtained at Mercy Maternity Center, a Christian charity birth center in
the Philippines, operated by NewLife International School of Midwifery of Portland, Oregon.
Anita has four children, is a two-time cesarean survivor and has had a home birth after cesarean (HBAC). She is the former president of the International Cesarean Awareness Network, and has a specialty in vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC).
A homeschooler since 1998, Anita has experience in extended breastfeeding, tandem nursing, cloth diapering, non-circumcision, selective
and non-vaccination, and is quiverful. Her family lives on 2.3 acres in a quiet, rural area surrounded by pasture land
and corn, and enjoys camping, genealogy, and swimming.
