I am Heather Lemanski, CPM. I have been attending births as a midwife's assistant or apprentice since 2011, when I began my first apprenticeship. Since then, I have worked with 6 different midwives in the metro Detroit area and surrounding communities. I enjoy working along side different midwives and my practice is a good melting pot of midwifery styles. I am a current member of the Michigan Midwives' Association, a certified  Neonatal Resuscitation (NRP) and an adult/child/infant CPR provider. I have had the privilege of attending over 100 births and in April 2018 I attained the Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) credential from the North American Registry of Midwives. http://narm.org/

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I have been married to my college sweetheart, John, since 2004. Together we have 4 children. I gave birth to my first child in a “normal, induced hospital birth” in 2005. It was a “typical” American birth and while becoming a mother for the first time was joyous in itself, her birth left me feeling like I had missed out on something. My transition to motherhood was complicated with the feelings that my birthing experience could have been different, better, special. Not something I needed to be rescued from, but something I needed to experience fully and in my own way. This led me on the path to exploring my choice of home birth. When I gave birth to my second child in my own home in 2009, I felt that there was nothing I could not do. It was during my third pregnancy in 2011 that I felt the calling to birth work and midwifery. I feel all women should have the choice to birth how, where and with whom they want. Normal labor and birth is not an emergency and does not have to be a medical event.
It is my belief that your labor and birth is a sacred time. It is a great honor and privilege to be invited to be part of such a momentous event.

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