About us
WOMB was born in 2021 to fill a gap that caught us off guard: a shortage of in-person, hospital-supportive childbirth classes in our own city. What started as a local solution quickly revealed itself to be something much bigger — a systemic lack of accessible, evidence-based birth education affecting parents across the country. We've been working to change that ever since.
From the beginning, we knew we couldn't just borrow someone else's material. The childbirth education curricula available on the market are overwhelmingly shaped by a natural birth ideology that can leave hospital-birthing parents feeling judged, underprepared, or outright mistrustful of their care team. We believe expectant parents deserve honest, balanced information — not a philosophy pushed on them at one of the most vulnerable moments of their lives. So we wrote our own curriculum from scratch, grounded in research and designed to meet parents wherever they are, whatever kind of birth they're planning.
The WOMB team brings a rare combination of perspectives to this work. With backgrounds as a former doula and a BSN-prepared nurse, we've seen birth from both sides — the deeply human and the rigorously clinical. In nearly four years, we've had the privilege of educating hundreds of expectant parents, and we've done it while doing what our students are preparing to do ourselves. The WOMB team has welcomed four boys of our own during that time, navigating sleepless nights, toddler chaos, and all the beautiful mess of parenthood right alongside the families we serve.
This work is personal. It always has been. We operate in a space that the broader medical system has been slow to recognize as essential — but every parent who leaves our class feeling informed, prepared, and confident reminds us why we show up anyway.
Expanding Our Reach
The longer we've worked in childbirth education, the more we've learned — not just about the options available to expectant parents, but about the history and future of this work as a whole. Whenever we wonder if we're making a difference, an email arrives from a parent desperate to find a seat in an upcoming class because no other options exist nearby. That is what keeps us going.
The need for quality childbirth education has never been more urgent. Misinformation spreads faster than ever, and the rise in maternal anxiety and mental health struggles is impossible to ignore. When we see how much this education matters in our own community, we know that need doesn't stop at our city limits. Parents everywhere deserve access to accurate, supportive, evidence-based childbirth education — and expanding that access is what drives everything we do.
