ABOUT US
Toni Hill, Midwife
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Toni is a Certified Professional Midwife in Northern Mississippi but, according to her clients and colleagues, she's the baddest midwife in the state and a trailblazer for the next generation of birth workers. Toni uses her 20+ years of knowledge and experience to support the entire family as they embrace natural birth, healing, and herbalism. She brings her compassion, patience, and light to every birth. Passionate about her community, Toni is an advocate for those who are often overlooked or uninformed. She is fiercely grounded in issues that advance and uplift maternal health and equity for all. She is an intuitive visionary for creating services and opportunities for the marginalized that make an impact. As a mentor, Toni sees the value in openly sharing knowledge to encourage and empower more like-minded birth workers to safely support families in their own communities with best practices. Both a teacher and a student, Toni strives to seek and speak truth. She is a voice of reason for those who have lost their connection to self and nature, inspiring and planting seeds of wisdom wherever she goes. Toni is approachable and an empathetic listener. In combination with her endearing sense of humor, she is loved and appreciated by many far and wide.
TRAINING/CERTIFICATIONS:
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Christa Sherman, Midwife
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Christa Sherman is a direct entry midwife who has been working with Toni since 2013. She completed her apprenticeship in 2021. In addition to attending births with Toni, Christa also serves as a traditional midwife for the Amish community near Pontotoc.
Christa earned a B.S. in Child Development from Mississippi State University in 1999 and completed Certified Lactation Counselor training in 2016. She has also participated in a variety of midwifery skills workshops including B.E.S.T. and S.T.A.B.L.E. Maintaining certification in NRP (neonatal resuscitation) and BLS (basic life support) is important to her and she enjoys attending childbirth conferences and teaching childbirth education classes. Having given birth in a birth center, a hospital, and at home, she can honestly say there is no place like home for birth! When she isn’t at a birth, she’s usually going on adventures and attending homeschool activities with four of her children who still live at home. She also likes to cook, enjoys working with yarn and fabric, and aspires to be fluent in Spanish and learn to play the piano. |
ABOUT OUR STUDENT MIDWIVES
The Certified Professional Midwife and traditional midwifery training is based on the apprentice model. The hands on training and clinical experiences of a midwife are passed from midwife to midwife as part of the midwifery education and experience. At Blooming Moon Midwifery Services we support and encourage this model of training and work with student midwives in our practice.
Prenatal visits and births may be attended by one or two midwives and birth assistant/s or student midwife/midwives at the midwives discretion. All care that is provided by the assistant will be under the direct supervision of Toni Cobbs Hill, CPM or other competent midwife and only with direct permission from our clients.
Each student midwife being trained in the apprentice model is required to provide documentation of client experience at the end of her training to ensure certification. This certification process, through the North American Registry of Midwives requires student to disclose health information about our clients to NARM as a way to verify their participation and training in midwifery care. This can be done only with the permission of our clients.
Prenatal visits and births may be attended by one or two midwives and birth assistant/s or student midwife/midwives at the midwives discretion. All care that is provided by the assistant will be under the direct supervision of Toni Cobbs Hill, CPM or other competent midwife and only with direct permission from our clients.
Each student midwife being trained in the apprentice model is required to provide documentation of client experience at the end of her training to ensure certification. This certification process, through the North American Registry of Midwives requires student to disclose health information about our clients to NARM as a way to verify their participation and training in midwifery care. This can be done only with the permission of our clients.
Stacey Herrin, Student Midwife
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Stacey Herrin has been working as a birth assistant with Toni Hill since early in 2017. After having her first baby in a hospital, she knew that she wanted something more natural and mother minded for the next baby. She gave birth to her second baby in 2016 under the care of Toni in the comfort and
convenience of her home where her love and passion for birth work was born. Experiencing individual and mother-centered care showed Stacey there are lots of women who do not know what other options available. She has since completed doula training, CPR, and neonatal resuscitation with plans to continue educating herself to better provide for clients. Stacey is sharing this life with her husband, Landis, and children, Rowan, Bricker, Leona, and Della. |
