Corina Fitch * corinafitch@gmail.com * Request a Consult
- Certified Professional Midwife (CPM)
- Registered Nurse (NICU)
- Former board member of NACPM and FLNACPM
- Certified Transformational Facilitator
People often ask me how I got into midwifery or what inspired me to be a midwife. I like to say that I was “born into it”. I was born into the hands of midwives in an old school bus that was our home right here on The Farm. Because of this, I grew up knowing home birth to be the norm. When I was a young girl my mother attended births as an assistant to the midwives. She would come home and tell me the stories and I was fascinated. From the age of twelve, I wanted to be a midwife. Eleven years later, on my 21st birthday, I witnessed my first birth and knew I had found my calling.
I began attending births as a doula and became licensed as a midwife in the state of Florida in 1999. One of my joys is traveling and doing international work. As a student, I had the opportunity to attend births in Jamaica and Haiti. Once I graduated and was practicing, I acted as a preceptor for midwifery students attending births in a low-risk hospital in Honduras.
In 2001, I completed a nursing program. As a nurse I specialized in the newborn intensive care unit (NICU), caring for sick and premature infants. I feel that this experience compliments my midwifery practice by giving me more experience/expertise with newborns. I have had my own private homebirth practice since 1999.
Perhaps the most important and profound part of my journey as a midwife was when I became a mother myself. Although I had been attending births already for 12 years, it was quite different to be on the other side! I found myself facing the most challenging, powerful, and humbling experience of my life. The moment I touched her precious little head while she was still inside, just before she was born, I was flooded with a love far greater than anything I had ever known….and deep gratitude for the incredible privilege of giving birth, in the comfort of my own home, surrounded by family and supported by my three fabulous midwives! I now have three beautiful daughters–Nehama, Jade, and Amaya–all born at home. They are the loves of my life and motherhood continues to humble and teach me each and every day. My mothering journey eventually led me back to my birth village of The Farm in the fall of 2020.
Apart from midwifery, my other passions are music, dance, social justice, and transformational facilitation. In 2014 I wrote, produced, directed, and danced (at 36 weeks of pregnancy) in “Shatki Rising: Maya’s Labyrinth“, a multicultural exploration of pregnancy, loss, fertility, birth, and motherhood. It was part of an evening dedicated to raising awareness about the racial disparities in infant and maternal mortality, featuring a panel discussion after the show.
I believe that the childbearing year is a powerful and transformational time in a woman’s lifecycle. During this time, the birthing person conceives, nurtures, gives birth and begins the long process of caring for a new life. Immense physical changes occur in the body, and intense, and sometimes overwhelming, emotional, neurological, and spiritual changes affect the psyche. Although there is a universal nature to these processes, each person will experience them in a unique way.
Because of this, midwifery means customizing care to meet each person’s unique needs. As a midwife, I see pregnancy and birth as normal and inherently healthy. Because they are far more than simply mechanical processes, my approach is holistic and focused on developing a relationship of trust and respect. This trust is invaluable during the challenging process of labor and birth.
Part of holding space for the laboring mama is honoring and respecting her process, power and intuition. I believe birth is a rite of passage that works best when labor starts on its own and is allowed to run on its own clock (rather than fit into a standardized graph of what’s considered normal).
My goal as a midwife is to empower the birthing person and partner to actively participate in their own care. I believe pregnant couples, through the process of informed decision-making, should take an active role and responsibility during this special time in their lives. My vision is that by welcoming new life in a loving way, we can change the world one birth at a time. corinafitch@gmail.com / Request a Consult
Building a village is an essential part of preparing for motherhood. Group prenatal care, facilitated by Corina, is an opportunity to forge lifelong bonds with other pregnant women and people. In each monthly group, we explore various aspects of matrescence, including things like pre and postnatal nutrition, exercises to strengthen the pelvic floor and improve flexibility, emotional challenges and shifts in identity, breastfeeding, brain changes, and on and on.
As long as humans have gathered, women have passed down information about these rights of passage of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. Pregnant people and their partners learn so much from their shared and and varied experiences. Being together also increases the production and release of oxytocin, the love hormone. Everyone leaves feeling more connected and inspired and less alone.
I am Corina–midwife, mother, healer, and guide. I support and mentor expectant women and mothers to become a MotherFly. To learn more about my courses and offerings, which can be virtual or in person, added in tandem to the care provider you are currently seeing, or added postpartum go to:
The Matrescence Circle Membership
Map for a New Motherhood Digital Workbook