Midwifery Assistants
Our Midwifery team includes the following midwifery assistants:
Farah Antoine-Mayberry
Assistant, Doula, OT, IBCLC
Farah Antoine-Mayberry is an occupational therapist, a certified lactation consultant, a DONA trained birth doula and hopes to be a midwife someday! She owns a community business that supports families by providing a number of different birth services including but not limited to lactation and birth doula services.
Farah has been blessed with a supportive husband and 5 incredible children (including a set of twins). Besides working with mothers and babies, she enjoys spending time with family, dabbling in photography, and traveling.
E-mail Farah here to inquire about birth assistant services.
Caitlin Balding
Assistant, Doula, Student Midwife
Caitlin is a DONA trained birth doula, midwifery assistant, and student midwife. She has been fascinated with the birthing process, especially midwifery & out of hospital birth, from a young age. After hearing her own mother’s birth experiences, Caitlin knew she wanted to pursue a career in midwifery in order to make a positive impact on maternity care. Caitlin believes women’s bodies are perfectly designed to birth, and is passionate about guiding & educating clients through the journey that is childbearing.
Caitlin completed DONA doula training in 2018 at the age of 16 & eventually decided to take the leap and begin midwifery training with Midwives College of Utah in 2021. As Caitlin has grown as a birth worker, she has found that one of her favorite aspects of midwifery care is walking alongside families’ as they welcome a new life and transition into a new season.
E-mail Caitlin here to inquire about birth assistant services.
Amanda Standlee
Assistant, Doula, Student Midwife
Amanda is a doula, Birth Boot Camp instructor, Midwifery Assistant and Student Midwife. She has been serving the birth community in some capacity since 2010. She started her midwifery assistant training in June of 2021. She finished the midwifery assistant certification workshop with the College of Traditional Midwifery in April of 2022.
Amanda is the mother of six. She has given birth in a variety of ways including both medicated and unmediated in a hospital, twice in her own home, and once by emergency surgical birth. She believes that birth is a normal function and that it is safest when it is left to happen on its own.
When she is not at work, she is at home at her families small family farm near Shawnee homeschooling her children, studying, or working on their land. She also enjoys short roadtrips with her husband and kids.
You can reach Amanda through her website www.EverAlteredBirthServices.com to set up a consultation.
Midwifery Student Team
At Spirited Birth, we believe it is our responsibility to train more birth workers and keep midwifery accessible This means you may meet our students in clinic. Please let us know if you prefer not to have students shadow or be involved in your care.
Our Midwifery team includes the following students:
Caitlin Balding
Assistant, Doula, Student Midwife
Caitlin is a DONA trained birth doula, midwifery assistant, and student midwife. She has been fascinated with the birthing process, especially midwifery & out of hospital birth, from a young age. After hearing her own mother’s birth experiences, Caitlin knew she wanted to pursue a career in midwifery in order to make a positive impact on maternity care. Caitlin believes women’s bodies are perfectly designed to birth, and is passionate about guiding & educating clients through the journey that is childbearing.
Caitlin completed DONA doula training in 2018 at the age of 16 & eventually decided to take the leap and begin midwifery training with Midwives College of Utah in 2021. As Caitlin has grown as a birth worker, she has found that one of her favorite aspects of midwifery care is walking alongside families’ as they welcome a new life and transition into a new season.
E-mail Caitlin here to inquire about birth assistant services.
Roshini Nambiar Schroeder
Midwifery Student, Doula
Roshini Nambiar Schroeder (or Rosh as her friends and family call her) is a DONA trained birth doula and owner of OmPowering Birthing Services, LLC. She started her birth doula journey when her sister decided to have a natural birthing experience and the experience of supporting a birth center birth with the closest person in her life, changed hers. After two degrees in environmental science and working in water quality for the State of Oklahoma, Rosh describes her journey as from Earth to Birth. She has witnessed the absolute beauty and empowerment in families learning how to bring their own babies into the world in the way that they want and having the support required to navigate the unpredictability and mystery of birth. She has benefited immensely and continues to be a firm believer in the midwifery model of care when having her own baby while being educated in evidence-based birthing.
Rosh went on to birth her own baby with the Thrive Mama Collective / Spirited Birth team during the start of COVID-19. She has since applied to midwifery school and is on the start of that journey while assisting birthing families with their own birthing journeys.
Rosh loves sustainability in every way and has a deep love for learning and connecting in every possible way.
Amanda Standlee
Midwifery Student, Assistant, Doula
Amanda is a doula, Birth Boot Camp instructor, Midwifery Assistant and Student Midwife. She has been serving the birth community in some capacity since 2010. She started her midwifery assistant training in June of 2021. She finished the midwifery assistant certification workshop with the College of Traditional Midwifery in April of 2022.
Amanda is the mother of six. She has given birth in a variety of ways including both medicated and unmediated in a hospital, twice in her own home, and once by emergency surgical birth. She believes that birth is a normal function and that it is safest when it is left to happen on its own.
When she is not at work, she is at home at her families small family farm near Shawnee homeschooling her children, studying, or working on their land. She also enjoys short roadtrips with her husband and kids.