The Birth Of Something Great
for Alabama
The Birth Sanctuary Gainesville is bringing safe + supported pregnancy care, labor, and birth services back where they're needed most.
Accepting clients with due dates in 2024!
Our Approach
Based in Gainesville, Alabama—a small town in Sumter County, just shy of Mississippi—Birth Sanctuary Gainesville is dedicated to using the midwifery model of care to ensure quality, empowered healthcare relationships for all birthing bodies in western Alabama. Our work honors both the ancient wisdom of women giving birth and modern evidence-based experience to create a partnership of excellent care.
We look at each person comprehensively, monitoring the safety of our clients and babies with our holistic approach to physical health, mental health, and cultural awareness. Our commitment to collaborative care allows you the time you need to process choices and options, understand risks and benefits, and make the most informed decisions on your birthing journey. Our practice aims to empower you to make the best decision for you, your body, and your baby.
What is Midwifery?
Midwifery is modern medicine based on generations-deep tradition. Traditionally focused on attending births, Midwives are also equipped to provide expert, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally competent care for low-risk birthing bodies throughout pregnancy and childbirth, providing prenatal and postpartum care for mother and child. Midwives are highly trained, licensed, and certified to provide safe and effective maternal-infant healthcare in a non-hospital setting.
"Mothers in Alabama deserve access to maternal healthcare and education in a nurturing environment in the heart of their community"
- Dr. Stephanie Mitchell, DNP, CNM, CPM
About Dr. Mitchell
Stephanie Mitchell, DNP, CNM, CPM, is a Certified Professional Midwife who has practiced full scope midwifery in private collaborative practice, hospital, and tertiary care teaching settings since 2016. Dr. Mitchell worked as a pediatric nurse and labor and delivery nurse for thirteen years prior to becoming a birth provider. She has seen firsthand the life-changing—and life-saving potential of full-scope midwifery care and is thrilled to be bringing the first freestanding birth center to the state of Alabama.
She is mother to four children, Jasmyn, Jaymie, Jayar and Jesse. She been partnered with her best friend Jamie for over 20 years (married for 14 of those years) she has two Miniature Schnauzers named Issa and Nucky. In her spare time, you can find her vlogging, blogging, reading, or enjoying the outdoors. Her most glorious times are when she finds ways to combine all of these facets and fabric of love together!
Let’s Birth A Better Future For Alabama
Join us in supporting our work to improve the lives and health of Alabama’s most vulnerable—from first trimester to first birthday and beyond.
Your donation provides crucial opportunities for families to easily and safely access supportive, professional, integrative 1-on-1 care from highly trained, fully licensed, state certified midwives. It takes a village and, with your help, we are building one together.
By The Book: Building Your
Birth Plan
Welcoming a new baby is an exciting and joyous time, but it’s natural to be nervous about getting everything ready. Just like every body is different and every baby is different, every birth is its own beautiful story, waiting to be written.
With her new book, The First-Time Parent’s Childbirth Handbook, our own Dr. Stephanie Mitchell builds on her thirteen years of experience working as a pediatric nurse and labor and delivery nurse prior to becoming a Certified Professional Midwife to empower you with answers for all your burning questions about giving birth and the days before and after. This simple and demystifying guide offers deep insight into the journey to parenthood, with space to build a custom birth plan that speaks to your values and the tools to write a birthing story that works for you.
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