“When a baby is born in an environment of peace...when a woman is believed and loved and encouraged during that time of birth, when mom and babe are honored as accomplished journeymen, the result can only be a certain strength and hope that transcends all the doubt and fear that family life will present.” --Katie Bramhall
Katie (Katherine) Bramhall, CPM, LM, NHCM is a graduate of a nationally accredited midwifery school and practices home birth midwifery care out of her Vermont home office, serving families in Vermont and just over the border in NH. She blends her philosophy of kindness and acceptance with her depth of knowledge and life experience to provide gentle, peaceful and safe home birth midwifery care.
Katie blends over 30 years of birth experience in a wide variety of settings and situations, a compassionate heart, deep listening and a scientific mind to offer comprehensive, creative and individualized care to each family she is blessed to work with. She is a fierce advocate for informed choice, committed partnership in care and evidence-based midwifery.
Katie has worked for years to establish peaceful, collaborative relationships with health care providers all over the state of Vermont and NH, including hospitals, obstetricians, pediatricians, naturopathic doctors, nurse midwives, family doctors, chiropractors, acupuncturists, and much more, so that if the need arises, a family's care can be collaborative and/or transferred in a peaceful and respectful way.
Katie serves on the Vermont Maternal Mortality Review Board as a voice for home birth families.
Katie blends over 30 years of birth experience in a wide variety of settings and situations, a compassionate heart, deep listening and a scientific mind to offer comprehensive, creative and individualized care to each family she is blessed to work with. She is a fierce advocate for informed choice, committed partnership in care and evidence-based midwifery.
Katie has worked for years to establish peaceful, collaborative relationships with health care providers all over the state of Vermont and NH, including hospitals, obstetricians, pediatricians, naturopathic doctors, nurse midwives, family doctors, chiropractors, acupuncturists, and much more, so that if the need arises, a family's care can be collaborative and/or transferred in a peaceful and respectful way.
Katie serves on the Vermont Maternal Mortality Review Board as a voice for home birth families.
"Dance me to the children who are asking to be born...Dance me to the end of love"
Eat Pray Doula teaching with Robin Lim, Bali Indonesia
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About Me....From My Mom
"My daughter Katie is one of my four children. She grew up in a cabin in the woods in upstate New York in farm country. Living in the woods kept Katie close to nature and as a result, she became self-sufficient and strong in body, mind and spirit. She was bright in school and spent a great deal of time outside, riding horses, walking, skiing and gardening.
When she was 15 she volunteered at a hospital for the summer. That began her life of caring for people.
Katie got married and birthed two of her own daughters. She and their father raised them together on a lot of land and home schooled them. During that time she trained for and became a Polarity Practitioner and started a private practice in her home. My daughter has an overflowing abundance of compassion and can't not take care of people. She is a natural caregiver and has been since she was young. She is calm and strong in a crisis, upbeat, optimistic and warm. And she is always learning. She never stops learning."
"My daughter Katie is one of my four children. She grew up in a cabin in the woods in upstate New York in farm country. Living in the woods kept Katie close to nature and as a result, she became self-sufficient and strong in body, mind and spirit. She was bright in school and spent a great deal of time outside, riding horses, walking, skiing and gardening.
When she was 15 she volunteered at a hospital for the summer. That began her life of caring for people.
Katie got married and birthed two of her own daughters. She and their father raised them together on a lot of land and home schooled them. During that time she trained for and became a Polarity Practitioner and started a private practice in her home. My daughter has an overflowing abundance of compassion and can't not take care of people. She is a natural caregiver and has been since she was young. She is calm and strong in a crisis, upbeat, optimistic and warm. And she is always learning. She never stops learning."
"and in the end, the love you get is equal to the love you give." -the beatles
Isabelle!
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Prior to working as a home birth midwife, Katie worked for 20 years as a holistic and Polarity practitioner in the Boston area working with entire family systems. In that time she also worked doing professional labor support before the word ‘doula’ was ever coined. |
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Domalita's baby. Aceh, Indonesia post-Tsunami at the Bumi Sehat clinic.
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In 2004, in response to the Bam, Iran earthquake, Katie began her intensive years of disaster relief work, focusing on the long-term effects of trauma on family and maternal/child health systems. In addition to Iran, her relief work has taken her to Russia, Aceh and Bali Indonesia, New York City, post-Katrina Louisiana and Haiti. She is the founder and President of Bumi Sehat Foundation International in the US. Katie developed and served as the director/organizer of the student midwife program at the Bali, Indonesia birth clinic until its closure in 2014. She travels to Bali each year as a volunteer midwife, fundraiser and a US liaison. |
Russia--an exchange of information in St. Petersburg, Russia on supporting families after the Chechen war.
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Bumi Sehat Foundation International has been an integral part of Katie's midwifery and humanitarian service work since January 2006. Bumi Sehat is a non-profit, village-based organization that runs two by-donation community health centers in Bali and Aceh, Indonesia, with a mission to reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality and to support the health and wise development of communities. Katie's role has evolved from midwife volunteer to also include creating a student midwife program, international doula training, and serving as President of the U.S. office. In 2011, midwife Robin Lim of Bumi Sehat was nominated for and won the CNN Hero of the Year Award, and Katie has been deeply involved in Bumi Sehat's unfolding path as the organization becomes internationally known, funded, and loved.
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Seven babies birthed in one night at Bumi Sehat with families and staff pictured the next afternoon.
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Mother birthing her baby in Jacmel, Haiti (March 2012)
In early 2010 Katie co-founded and served as Director at the Bumi Sehat birth clinic in post-earthquake Haiti. She worked closely with the Haitian Minister of Health in Jacmel, delivered babies to high-risk earthquake-affected women and capacity-built Haitian healthcare workers and midwives on safe maternal/child practices.
Twenty two years old with my 3 month old daughter (1982)
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My own birth history includes a midwife-attended labor, with my first daughter born via cesarean birth, and a successful VBAC for my second baby born 13 months later. I went into my VBAC trial of labor knowing that my body and spirit were strong and had healed sufficiently to birth as it naturally knew how. I hold that knowledge and hope for all women. |
My daughters running from bedtime (1986)
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