Theresa Sparks, apprentice midwife

I am a mother of three children, first being a OB/GYN-led birth in hospital which ended in a caesarean, and then three vaginal births after caesareans under midwifery led care, the last two being home births. My own birth journey led me to birth work with a desire to see women through this monumental rite of passage, emerging on the other side feeling honoured, whole and empowered through the process of pregnancy, birth and postpartum. 

I am fiercely protective of the motherbaby dyad and know that we carry our experiences of birth with us through our lives in our body and soul. I work within continuity of care, independent midwifery led birth, which is currently only in home birth in Cape Town, doing a midwifery apprenticeship with my preceptors. I am driven to expand choice for mothers of breech babies and multiples with skilled providers. Outside of supporting my own clients I am passionate about supporting the home birth community as a collective, through mother to mother and whole family support, co-leading our home birth support group locally.