Welcome! I’m Abby.
My husband, Eric, and our four boys, Henry, Teddy, Joseph, and Frederrick.
Photographer: Mary Turner (Heart&Hands birth and photography)
Hi! My goal as a birth worker is to support, inform, and empower any family who is seeking to be an active participant in their birth. I became a birth doula in 2016, in 2017 I became a postpartum doula, and in 2018 I became a childbirth educator. I am thankful for my time as a birth worker before I had children, but I am eternally grateful for the life-changing experience of pregnancy and postpartum.
The unknowns of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum can be very daunting and overwhelming. I want to make families feel comfortable during birth and postpartum. There is no one way to prepare for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. For me, preparing meant learning how my body was created and meant to birth. I wanted as much information as possible; it made me feel empowered and made me desire to honor my body and my baby.
My husband, children, and I moved to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in January 2021 to be closer to family. We love the community and are happy to make roots here.
In the fall of 2025, I will no longer be offering birth doula services because I will be in midwifery school! I have a friend running my support group and two local birth workers teaching my childbirth classes.
My job as a birth worker is to support and love on the families I am so blessed to work with - if you want more information on how I can help you achieve your birth and postpartum goals please reach out.
A little about my midwifery journey
I am in the assist phase of my training and in January of 2026 I will be working with local midwives as their student. As a birth worker for almost a decade, I have had much admiration for midwives. I learn a lot from every interaction and am eager to learn from the wise women who have come before me. I had the pleasure of midwifery care during all four of my pregnancies and was able to assist midwives in my area before starting school.
As a doula I had births in all settings, even a car! I know my experiences in hospitals, birth centers, and home will impact how I take care of my clients. I know birth is a normal process, but I also know that there is a time and a place for extra help. I think beautiful births can happen anywhere. My ultimate goal as a midwife is provide safe and competent care for my clients, giving them autonomy over themselves and their babies, and guidance when needed. I do firmly believe most births unfold best when left alone, but I also firmly believe midwives can quietly observe and be that eye for that chance that mom and baby could need extra assistance.
Even though I am not a midwife yet, I am lucky enough to know a great graphic designer (Mary Turner) who helped me with my vision for my future midwifery business. I might be getting ahead of myself, but as someone who does have her bachelors in paining and drawing, I think logo design is apart of the fun of career aspirations. See, my art degree does do something…
My logo weaves in the miraculous story of Moses (name meaning “drawn from the waters”) delivered by Shiphrah and Puah, Jewish midwives, when Pharaoh ordered all the Hebrew babies to be slaughtered. “When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stools, if it is a son, then you shall kill him.” But the midwives feared God and did not follow orders. Their excuse for the living Hebrew babies that they refused to kill was to say “the Hewbrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are lively and give birth before midwives come to them.” Midwives have always been rebels, but for the right reasons.
This story is truly miraculous! Another fascinating facet of this story that almost always brings me to tears, is when Moses’ mother (Jochebed) trusted the Lord to take her baby in the river, we all know he ended up being found by Pharaoh’s daughter. But did you know, Miriam (Moses’ sister), followed him there and when Pharaoh’s daughter went looking for a wet nurse, Miriam said she knew a woman who could nurse him - and it was Jochebed! So not only did Pharaoh’s daughter spare his life, but Moses’ own mother was able to nurse him as an infant. I absolutely love that story and am grateful for a God who provides in unexpected ways.
The “Wonderfully Made” is a nod to the Psalms 139:14 “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous and Your works, And that my soul knows very well.” I believe we are created beautifully in the womb, by God. We should respect and honor all life.
When I was in the early stages of labor with my first son, I read this verse a few times, mentally preparing to bring a whole life into this world. Thankfully he came safely, born into the water, drawn up by my dear midwife! His middle name was almost Moses, we did go with a family name instead. But we saved it for our third son’s middle name.
Midwifery is one of the oldest jobs in the world, I think the history and depth behind it are part of the reason I am drawn to it. I think caring for the pregnant woman and her child is a honor and heavy responsibility I will never take lightly. I am hesitant to say I am eager to start my journey because I feel my entire life has shaped into this moment now I am, finally, FINALLY, in school to be a midwife. It still feels like a dream, I pray my family and I can handle the transition. And by God’s grace, I can finish school and serve women and their families!