About Me

I am Anita Woods, a direct-entry midwife since 2004 and certified by the North American Registry of Midwives in 2007 as a Certified Professional Midwife.  I am certified by the American Heart Association/American Academy of Pediatrics in neonatal resuscitation, and a 2007 graduate of Ancient Art Midwifery Institute, specifically dedicated to training homebirth midwives.  I have attended over 100 births, including an internship at a Christian charity birth center in the Philippines. If you are interested in reading the blog of that experience, click here.

A former board member for the International Cesarean Awareness Network, my specialty is in vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC).  I have had two cesareans and two VBAC's, one of them a home waterbirth.  As a mother who breastfed collectively for 8 years, including extended and tandem nursing, I am supportive of all forms of attachment parenting, and am an advocate for co-sleeping, cloth-diapering, the quiverfull lifestyle, non-circumcision and selective or non-vaccination.

I am married and have lived in the Greater Metropolitan Kansas City area my entire life.  We have four homeschooled sons and live on 2.3 acres in a quiet, rural area surrounded by pasture land and corn, and enjoy camping, swimming, and our two rescued German Shepherd mutts.  We attend a nondenominational, Bible-believing Christian church in Shawnee, Kansas, where we are active in Celebrate Recovery small groups.