Meet The Midwives
Our carefully assembled team of expert midwives and birth consultants brings deep experience and cultural competence to every birth journey. With a shared commitment to respectful, individualized care, we honor each family's unique background, values, and choices—providing trusted support every step of the way.
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Midwife + Founder
DNP, CNM, CPM, LMStephanie is a Certified Nurse Midwife and Certified Professional Midwife who has practiced full scope midwifery in private collaborative practices, hospital, home and birth center settings since 2016. She holds a Bachelors of Science in Nursing, a Masters of Science in Nursing with a specialty in community-based midwifery, and a Doctorate of Nursing Practice.
Dr. Mitchell began her path working as a pediatric nurse, as a labor and delivery nurse, and then as a midwife in a collaborative midwifery group in one of the largest and highest volume hospital systems in Boston and Rhode Island. In her time there she held space at thousands of births, attending over 600 births as a midwife.
During this time, she saw firsthand the life-changing—and lifesaving—potential of midwifery care. Stephanie has bore witness to many transcendent birth experiences, beautiful, supported, and ending with joy. This has shaped how she practices and cares for the families she sees as a midwife. While so many things on our healthcare journeys are beyond our control, one thing Dr. Stephanie realized during this time was, what often makes the difference between negative and positive birthing experiences is simple: Knowledge! When people are empowered and provided the time to process their choices and options, to understand risks and benefits, and to make the most informed decisions on their birthing journeys, outcomes are vastly improved, and satisfaction of the overall birth experience is had.
In 2020, Dr. Stephanie moved to Gainesville, AL, with her husband of 20 years, back to his hometown to follow his dream of owning a BBQ restaurant. At that time, as she was looking for a Birth Center to join so she could continue her work as a midwife, she was surprised to find zero freestanding Birth Centers serving her region, she decided to build her own and Birth Sanctuary was born.
She is mother to four children, Jasmyn, Jaymie, Jayar and Jesse. In her spare time, you can find her reading, gardening or enjoying the outdoors. Her most glorious times are when she finds ways to combine all these facets and fabric of love together! She is beyond thrilled to be bringing the first midwifery owned, led, and operated, freestanding birth center to the state of Alabama.
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Midwife
MSN, CNM, CPMBrittany is an experienced Certified Nurse Midwife with over 10 years of nursing experience including 5 years focused on the postpartum and mother-baby couplet care. She has recently completed extended training as a Certified Professional Midwife. She completed her nursing education at University of West Alabama and her graduate training at Frontier Nursing University with a focus on community based midwifery. She is passionate about supporting those who are pregnant and their families through education, advocacy and holistic midwifery care. She is committed to promoting safe, respectful birth experiences and positive maternal-newborn experiences.
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Midwifery Assistant, Student Midwife, Doula
Jamilah is a second-year student midwife at Commonsense Childbirth School of Midwifery. She started her journey as a birth worker after graduating from Bethune Cookman University with a degree in psychology and minoring in child development in 2014. She went on to become a Certified birth and postpartum Doula, Midwife Assistant and a Breastfeeding Advocate. Jamilah is very passionate about educating the community on their choices surrounding their birth experience and she strongly believes it takes a village to care for a birthing person so in return, they can nurture their baby. Jamilah is the Chief of Operations for Diamonds for Doulas and her whole mission is to make a difference in maternal and infant outcomes.