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About Sage Creek Midwifery
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Jewel Brighten, Certified Professional Midwife
With over 40 years empowering women in childbirth, experienced home births, passionate advocate for fearless, celebratory pregnancy journeys.
History & Experience
I have spent more than half of my life educating and supporting women and families in pregnancy and childbirth. My own two home births were straightforward, empowering and celebratory. My main mission has been to let all women know that they too can celebrate in their pregnancies and births; that there really isn’t anything to fear; and they are perfectly capable of having the birth that they imagine. I have to say that much of my early years of supporting women in childbirth was a learning curve to develop empathy with women whose experiences were very different from my own.
My exploration and study of childbirth began over 40 years ago , when I picked up a book entitled Birth by Caterine Millinarie. It lit a fire and passion that has never left me. In the ensuing years I completed three years of study at the Nizhoni Institute of Midwifery in San Diego, CA.
I was fortunate to participate in four years of apprenticeship in two home birth practices and a busy birth center and went on to complete the MEAC accredited program in midwifery at Maternidad La Luz in El Paso, TX. I was also a doula for 15 years.
I have attended over 500 births in varying capacities in home, birth center and hospital settings.
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I am currently a Certified Professional Midwife through the North American Registry of Midwives and a Licensed Midwife through the AZ Dept of Health Services.
Originally from the east coast,I have called the southwest, specifically northern AZ, home for the past 40+ years. My husband and I have three adult children and two grandchildren. All were born at home.
Philosophy
There are two main ideas that I hold to be true about pregnancy and childbirth that guide my practice of midwifery. The first is that midwifery is NOT the practice of medicine. Included in that is the belief that pregnancy and childbirth are normal physiological events that women’s bodies do.
The second idea that guides my practice is that the midwife/client relationship is a partnership. I bring to this partnership my years of study, my experience of
hundreds of births in a multitude of settings, my trust of the process and my deep caring for mothers, babies and families. My clients bring to the relationship their own knowing of themselves and their bodies, their life experiences, their hopes, dreams and intuitions. As partners we bring a commitment to work together to support her pregnancy and birth in the healthiest most holistic way possible.