Meet Our Team
Our team consists of at least one midwife and one assistant or student midwife at each birth. You will have the opportunity to meet anyone that may be a part of your baby's birthday throughout your prenatal visits. All midwives, assistants, and students are certified in adult CPR and neonatal resuscitation. All current team members have either worked as doulas or have doula training as well.
Nichole Feinauer, CPM, LM Midwife
Nichole began her journey to become a midwife in 2001. She started on her path as a DONA certified birth doula attending both hospital and home births in Georgia. She also worked as a Lamaze certified childbirth educator at a pregnancy resource center. In 2004, Nichole started a membership based nonprofit organization to bring together local birth professionals. This organization served as a resource for both families and birth professionals for almost 20 years.
Nichole assisted at her first home birth as an apprentice midwife during the Summer of 2007. She quickly realized this is what she was meant to do. While continuing to have children, teach classes & lead a growing nonprofit, Midwifery training often took a backseat. In 2017 Nichole and her family relocated to central Virginia where she found her place in a local birth center. While there she attended births at both the freestanding birth center and at home, and was able to complete her Midwifery training.
She then moved to Tennessee in May of 2019 to establish a Midwifery practice and continue raising her family. This was short lived as she knew her family belonged back in VA. She returned to VA in February 2022, and opened The Nest in March 2022. Nichole is now also a registered NARM preceptor.
Nichole has been married to Scott for over 26 years. Together they have 10 children, 7 of which were home water births. She has personal experience with fertility issues including MTHFR, recurrent loss, and has had a baby in the NICU. Nichole has breastfed all of her children over varying periods of time and has dealt with many nursing hurdles.
Hannah Hudson, Student Midwife
When asked the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” as a small child, Hannah would always answer, “I want to be a midwife.” This came from hearing wonderful stories of how she was born at home with a midwife attending her birth.
At the age of ten, Hannah met a local midwife who she grew to greatly respect. Over the years, this midwife encouraged Hannah by saying this dream was indeed possible. At the age of 21, Hannah became a birth doula still wondering if midwifery was something she could do. In the summer of 2022, this same midwife invited Hannah to come work with her in a birth clinic. It was then that Hannah realized this was indeed what she was meant to do. That same year Hannah had the privilege of meeting other local midwives and was able to attend a few births with them.
Birth work as well as postpartum support is Hannah’s true passion and she is excited to be pursuing what she was born to do. Hannah had the privilege of supporting her sister-in-laws during their pregnancies. Her most favorite title is “Ninnie” as her three nephews lovingly call her.
Hannah has lived on a farm for most of her life where she especially enjoys Sundays playing volleyball or just hanging out with family – with a raw milk latte in hand. Hannah looks forward to helping, learning from and connecting with the clients in the birth center.