Missy has been attending births as a doula since 1996 when she attended an ALACE workshop in Birmingham, Alabama. She is very excited to learn midwifery skills from her long-time friend and midwife and to support natural birth choices in the midsouth.
Missy started apprenticing with Full Circle Midwifery in May 2009 and has been catching babies since February 2010.
Missy lives in Hernando, Mississippi with her husband, Clark, and four children: Jacob (born at home in 1995), Beckett (born at home in 1997), Adam (born at home in 2002), And XiXi (born in China in 2003, adopted in 2005). She enjoys reading, writing, arts and crafts, travel, and time spent with family and friends. She is working on completing a liberal arts degree in Biology, Sociology, and Psychology at the University of Mississippi and has found the study both stimulating and appropriate for midwifery work as all three of those subjects come to bear on the birth process.
Missy keeps her CPR and NRP certifications current.
She is a member of the TN Midwives Association and serves as Public Relations Liaison for the Mississippi Midwives Alliance (MMA).