Miranda Welch, LM, CPM

I grew up working class in rural Iowa, raised by my single, hard working mom.  Our lived realities shaped my understandings of institutionalized healthcare, a standardized system with many barriers, assumptions, inequities, and fear-based strongholds.  My multi-generational matriarchal family instilled in me the power of my voice and shaking it up.  I worked for several change-making organizations, and for safe houses caring for families fleeing intimate partner violence.  While in academia (intending to become a Gender and Women’s Studies Professor), I taught Human Sexuality, Women’s Health, and high school sex ed before finding doulahood and finally, midwifery. 

My path to midwifery has been a lifelong call to rise up, ebbing and flowing from childhood to academia, social justice and community building.  The art and science of midwifery brought together all of my passions, hats and experiences, including forever growing and learning, in a beautiful hodge-podge of perfection.  Being welcomed by families to care and learn with them as they grow is a most precious and privileged gift.

I’ve been a birth worker for over 14 years. Before becoming a Licensed Midwife in the summer of 2020, I supported Madison area families for 9 years as a professional birth and postpartum doula. My formal studies included completing book-based education with Via Vita School of Midwifery in 2018 and 3.5 years of hands-on skills training via full-time, immersive apprenticeship entirely in home birth with local community midwife, Ingrid Andersson.