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 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 25 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.
After her oldest was born in 2007, Jackie was intrigued by all things birth, in awe of natural birth. In 2022, she literally stumbled into birth work. One evening while at her daughter's softball practice, her young son clicked on a Nest Facebook ad, which sent a question. Jackie quickly apologized, and after a bit of conversation back and forth, asked if The Nest was hiring. Luckily, they were about to seek a birth assistant. and the rest is history.
Jackie quickly realized she wanted to do more. While attending Birth Circle, one of the moms spoke about how much of an impact Jackie made during her postpartum stage of life. This struck something inside of her. She did not realize what an affect she had in the life of someone else. Jackie decided that she wanted to offer some kind of service for those that don't have a village. Jackie then became a Certified Postpartum Doula.
Jackie started leaning towards becoming a Midwife; catching her first baby in the Spring of 2023, only confirmed it. This marked a major turning point for her birth work career. Jackie believes this work is nothing short of AMAZING.
Jackie is excited to serve more families, learn more skills, meet new people, educate about postpartum, support new parents, catch babies, and watch them blossom and grow into who they’re meant to be. She is most excited to be move into the Student Midwife role, and learn everything midwifery related; supporting those in their most impactful stages of life.
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