My name is Laura O'Bryan and I am a Certified Professional Midwife as well as a Licensed Direct Entry Midwife in South Carolina. I am a non-denominatinal spirit-filled Christian midwife and I believe that this is what I am meant to be doing. I have been attending births since 2007 when my first child was born. I started as a doula assisting other families and postpartum doula work as well to help overwhelmed moms. I had chilren of my own as I built my passion of caring for families into a business in Alaska. I also became certified through ACBE as a Childbirth Educator. I was trained as a birth doula and postpartum doula and had a successful business where I formed friendships with clients. I began to teach childbirth classes at birth centers and Crisis Pregnancy Centers. Eventually I went through a very challenging phase in my life as I suddenly became a single mom. Interestingly, it led to a greater understanding of all types of family situations and experiences. It also became the turning point for me to finish my midwifery career and training and I became a midwife in 2013 in Utah, after years of attending births and providing birth center and home birth care with a team of midwives. I passed the NARM and became a CPM (Certified Professional Midwife) in 2014 and licensed with Utah state in 2015 as a direct-entry midwife. Eventually, I re-married and family blended, gaining another child, for a truly redemptive life. I understand challenges are present in everyone's life and that the timing of childbirth is a gift, but also can be a challenging journey. I recognize too that there are things unseen, but often felt at each birth experience. I believe that my life of both prayer and medical work, lends itself to a different kind of birth, that aids in the spiritual realm as God is the ultimate midwife and He births the babies. He called me as a Christian midwife and so I state this information up front. Recently, I relocated with my family to the beautiful state of South Carolina as God gave me a dream about living in South Carolina. My Utah home birth practice and birth center days, closed out, and a new chapter has opened up. I will continue to give my knowledge, experience, and spiritual support to all the individuals I affect. Each day, I am walking with God, I am grateful to be able to help bring forth life. Now, in my fourties and having over 20 years of experience in birth support and family care, I am blessed to be in South Carolina to follow God's call on my life and assist you in yours of having a family.
Through partnering with you, I will work through preventative nutritional advice, in-depth education, and personalized care to faciliate the birth that you desire. You will find that it is worth it to have a whole new outlook on birth. I supply water birth options and home birth care for those seeking a more natural birth experience. Yet, I carry the know how, skills, and equiptment for medical situations as well. If ever there were warning signs of a medical situation outside of home birth, I would safely work to transfer care to a hospital. Because of my years of experiences both in hospitals and out of them, I can assess each situation well. However, most healthy women will deliver healthy babies at home without any complications. Birth can be a healing and positive experience for women who feel supported, coached, and cared for in the process. Let Life Midwife support you, because your life, your choices, and your birth matter!