Our Homebirth/Waterbirth Midwifery Practice

Claudia Conn and Debbie Schneider are both Tennessee-licensed home-birth midwives—CPMs (Certified Professional Midwife)—and work in partnership to provide full-scope midwifery as well as well-woman care. We also generally have 2 full-time apprentices in the practice. Our strong birth team allows us to provide comprehensive 24/7 care and support to the families we serve. We cover an area extending out 1 to 2 hours around the Greater Atlanta and North Georgia area and into Tennessee.

Our home-birth midwifery practice is firmly based on informed choice. We believe women and families have the right to determine their own care in pregnancy and birth. With each 1-2 hour prenatal appointment we provide ample time and opportunity for education, discussion and relationship–building allowing for and nurturing confidence and trust.

Our approach to care is very woman—and family—centered. We encourage women to birth where and how they choose and offer a variety of home-birth options including water-birth.

We believe that a woman’s body is designed to give birth and that pregnancy and birth are normal processes. Beyond that, we also believe that birth is meant to a be key event in a woman’s life and a joyful and celebratory family event.

Studies continue to consistently affirm that planned, attended homebirth is as safe or safer than hospital birth. Our practice, firmly based in the midwifery model of care, allows issues of safety to be appropriately addressed, while uplifting and honoring the wonderfully human and spiritual aspects of birth.

The Midwives Model of Care


The MMoC is based on the fact that pregnancy and birth are normal life processes.

The Midwives Model of Care includes:
  • Monitoring the physical, psychological, and social well-being of the mother throughout the childbearing cycle
  • Providing the mother with individualized education, counseling, and prenatal care, continuous hands-on assistance during labor and delivery, and postpartum support
  • Minimizing technological interventions
  • Identifying and referring women who require obstetrical attention
  • The application of this woman-centered model of care has been proven to reduce the incidence of birth injury, trauma, and cesarean section.

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