The Birth Collaborative offers faith centered, holistic, and nutrition focused, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and bereavement doula services in the central Ohio region.
Welcome, I am so glad you are here
Please read and pray over your birth and birth team. I would love to walk this journey with you, but my hope above all is that you are surrounded with love and support, and feel you have the right people to care for you. I offer comprehensive midwifery care based on the midwifery model of care. I focus on a holistic approach, emphasizing whole foods nutrition, homeopathics, herbs, oils, and high quality supplements to support mama and baby through every step. I strive to offer birthing families the knowledge that they need to make educated decisions, based on informed consent. I believe in making your own decisions, based on unbiased education and research. I want every family to experience birth in a way that makes them feel empowered and supported, and connected to your body, your baby and Yahweh. No matter what walk of life you are in, or what you want your birth story to look like, the Holy spirit will lead and guide your birth,
About Me
I’m Hanna and I am the owner and founder of The Birth Collaborative. Here you will find a little more about me and my heart to work with families to have positive and joy filled births. My love for Yeshua, my husband Greg, and my three beautiful babies, encompass who I am. After that natural and holistic living, and serving as a midwife is where my passions lye. I am honored you have taken the time to be here in my corner of the world.
Serving Yeshua is the core of my birth philosophy, that we were fearfully and wonderfully made to birth, Our creator is with us and holds us through it all, and that women were meant to serve and surround women, particularly in childbirth and raising kids.
I strive to have a spirit of Shiphrah, one of the great exodus midwives, by honoring autonomy and Adonai’s perfect design, while also being educated and safe. I take the holistic approach to health and wellness, believing in well care, and enjoyable pregnancies and postpartum journeys. I encourage nose to tail ancestral eating, homeopathics, herbs, and essential oils in all my birth services.
My goal is to usher in the Holy Spirit at every birth, while caring for you the the ancient and sacred wisdom of midwifery and standing by you while you welcome new life.
I have been blessed to have some of the most amazing clients so far, and believe without a shadow of a doubt, that every client has been a blessing and was the right client for me at the right time.
I started The Birth Collaborative, as a doula in August of 2019. I grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and I have been married to my high school sweetheart since October of 2016. In early 2017, I went on a health journey that forever changed my life. I began researching various diets to heal my body. Down the rabbit hole of enlightenment, I discovered the midwifery model of care as an alternative to obstetrical care, and knew this was a path I wanted to be on. After several years of questioning my calling, I finally took the plunge into birth work. My first step in the process was to become a doula. I quickly fell in love with supporting women during their crossover into motherhood. My journey here has been nothing short of the Fathers path. In November of 2019 we had our first miscarriage. The following December we found out we were expecting again. After a long, tough pregnancy with hyperemesis gravidarum, we gave birth to our son in September of 2020. My birth did not go as planned. I had a tough labor, with a mal-positioned baby. Our little one came out blue and unresponsive. I also had severe perineal trauma from that birth. After a 2 week NICU stay and trying recovery, I developed postpartum anxiety. It took a long time for me to feel normal again, but the support of my community, and hand of Yeshua restored me. I would not change a thing about my journey, but I also hope no-one else has to experience it.
I was blessed enough to get pregnant again in January of 2022. I had another tough pregnancy, where my strength and faith were really tested. Between starting midwifery school, severe hyperemesis, and every possible home life debacle, I was not sure I would make it. This we know, Adonai is still good, and He is strong when I am weak, and I quickly delivered our beautiful daughter with no complications in November of 2022.
We were then gifted another precious arrow in December of 2023. I started my midwifery apprenticeship during this pregnancy, and that coupled with keeping up with 2 toddlers, really pushed my body to its limits. Yahweh was gracious in keeping both of us safe, but we did require hospital based help for his birth, and our second son was born via cesarean in September of 2024. I’ve now walked through three vastly different pregnancy and birth experiences. I truly believe the father has equipped me to support families in all of their various journeys, no matter the outcome.
I want to do nothing more than watch women come into their power as I help them navigate their beautiful pregnancy and labor journey. I feel called above all else in life to be a space holder for the sacredness of birth. I believe Yah has a perfect design, and my goal is to practice as such. I am now walking out my confirmed calling in midwifery. I have been in an apprenticeship, and serving as a midwives’ assistant since early 2024. I have attended over 100 births in various capacities, and have been blessed by my senior midwife to begin the role of autonomous midwife on my own. I will be a certified international midwife in mid 2026, once I serve 25 families in pregnancies and birth, as an independent midwife.
The CIM certification is a comprehensive and quality certification, requiring a rigorous training program. I have completed all the steps leading up to the final process of 25 births as head midwife.
I hope you feel connected to me and know that you are always loved and welcomed. I want to support you through every phase of pregnancy, labor, and postpartum, ushering in the Holy Spirit, and showering you with the love of Yeshua.
Some of my trainings include:
DONA trained birth doula
DONA lactation training
Certified Ohio STNA
Certified patient care assistant
CPR/First-aide (infant, child, adult)
Midwifery Wisdom comprehensive midwifery training
Karen Strange NRP
Bereavement doula trained through Sufficient Grace Ministries
Midwifery Wisdom Collective’s advanced midwifery training
Currently attending GoMidwife’s didactic midwifery program
NRP Certified
BEST certified
Didactic education through GoMidwife
A complete midwifery apprenticeship
The Midwifery Model of Care is a fundamentally different approach to pregnancy and childbirth than contemporary obstetrics. Midwifery care is uniquely nurturing, hands-on care before, during, and after birth. Midwives are traditional healthcare professionals specializing in pregnancy and childbirth who develop a trusting relationship with their clients, which results in confident, supported labor and birth. The application of this model has been proven to reduce the incidence of birth injury, trauma, and cesarean section.
Midwives view childbirth as a normal part of a woman’s life that is best supported with good nutrition, personal responsibility of the mother for the pregnancy, and attentive clinical guidance throughout the childbearing