Shell Walker is a licensed midwife offering homebirth, waterbirth and birthing classes
Shell Walker is a licensed midwife, certified professional midwife, and certified hypnobirthing instructor. She offers prenatal care, homebirth, water birth, birthing education classes and other services in support of safe, natural home birth.
"I think that the primary reason for the great satisfaction of the birthing women that I work with, aside from birth being essentially safe, is that I allow myself to really love them and to listen to them. The whole idea of keeping an emotional distance from ‘the patient’ has no application to me as a midwife. The ladies I serve are not patients. They are my sisters, if only for this part of life’s journey. How can I expect a woman to share with me such an intimate moment as birth, expect her to totally be herself with me, to be honest with me and to open to her innermost place of strength if I don't have enough respect to listen to her and to love her? I think that’s what it really gets down to- Love and Respect."
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