Hey, I’m Lauren. I started saving to pay for a home birth when I was seventeen. I didn’t get into birth work until my second, a breech baby, catapulted me into the mainstream obstetrical world.

My third baby was born accidentally unassisted at home, and I still think of that birth as some of the most meaningful fun I’ve ever had.

After my footling breech, I wanted to know everything there was to know about breech babies, and I wanted anyone else who needed that information to be able to get it: faster and more easily than I had! I started a website called MyBreechBaby.org in 2012 and began making connections with birthy people. I quickly realized that these were my people.

This led me to being certified as a birth educator and I started teaching group prenatal education classes to people who wanted some say and some confidence about how their babies would be born.

I attended many births. This grew and grew and I ended up working at a busy local birth center as the Director of Education. Throughout this time, I was researching, writing, and designing pieces of curriculum to use in my own classes and share with other doulas, midwives, and educators who wanted accessible, modern materials. Shortly after I met Tamoyia, we agreed that an inclusive, fun, and comprehensive birth education curriculum was needed in the world, and we started research for The Liberated Birth!

In addition to maintaining my own pregnancy, birth, and parenting blog at BetterBirthBlog, my work has been published in Holistic Parenting Magazine, Birth Issues, Mothering Magazine, True Birth (2014), and Mama Birth, as well as in the blogosphere. I have degrees in literacy and teaching, enjoy camping, garage sales, and, inexplicably, action movies.