My name is Kelly Fournier. I am a Certified Professional Midwife. I graduated from Mercy In Action’s College of Midwifery. I am a Certified Birth Educator and have taken Birth Emergency Skills Training. I am CPR and NRP certified. I trained under two home birth CPMs in Tennessee, working into the position of active midwife’s assistant and eventually into a primary midwife role. I continued my apprenticeship, working as a primary under supervision with two CPMs in Missouri, and completed my training in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania working with two CPMs at one of the largest midwifery practices in the United States. I am certified by the North American Registry of Midwives and legally practice in the state of Missouri
Hi! My name is Joanna Rocker. From a very young age I actually felt the call to be a missionary. It wasn't until during high-school that I attended a week-long course on home birth that I became interested in midwifery. The midwife teaching the course mentioned that if any of us had ever wanted to do mission work, that birth was something we would need to be educated on since women would just show up on your doorstep asking for help in developing countries.
After graduating from high school, I attended a 3 month midwifery intensive with Mercy In Action. They fund their free-access birth centers in the Philippines by teaching midwifery to students in the US. Afterwards I even had the opportunity of volunteering at their birth center in the Philippines. There I witnessed my first births, and was surprised to see that birth did not have to be a very difficult and strenuous experience. Some of the moms came in and gave birth within a matter of minutes. They just breathed their babies out, making it look like something one could almost do every day! This was night and day from the culture of fear surrounding birth I had witnessed in movies and traumatic experiences I had heard retold.
Over the next years I apprenticed under 7 different midwives in Colorado, Tennessee, Oregon and Missouri, gaining experience in a variety of settings, including at home, birth center and hospital. This gave me appreciation for a variety of techniques and made me realize that in general, there is not only "one right way" of doing things, what may be right for one woman may be totally different for another. I also married my best friend and husband, giving birth to our first at home with a midwife and the memories of many strong, laboring women to guide me. Afterwards I finished my required births as the primary attendant and completed my certification as a CPM spring of 2020 just before I gave birth to our second baby, also at home. Since then I have had the joy and look forward to continuing to help many more babies out into the world.
I graduated from Anderson University in 2014 with my Bachelors degree in the Science of Nursing. Since then, I have worked as an RN in a wide variety of settings. I met my retired Marine Corps husband, Joel, doing Christian mission work overseas and we got married in 2019. Since then, we’ve been blessed with three children. It wasn’t until I was pregnant with my first child—working in surgery alongside OBGYNs and preforming C-sections—that I realized the massive gaps in care for women during pregnancy, labor, and delivery. It made my heart break for each mother who was led to believe she perhaps wasn’t capable of delivering her baby without medical intervention. I believe women were intelligently created with birth in mind. I began educating myself on all things natural pregnancy and birth as I prepared for my first personal out-of-hospital birth. Then, during my third pregnancy, God made it quite clear to me that a career in midwifery was not only an answer to many prayers—but an opportunity to bless and support other women on their motherhood journeys the way I had received blessings through midwifery care. I began taking midwifery classes in January of 2025 and have been working with the team at Special Deliveries since July 2025. Driven by my own experiences—I am specifically passionate about nutrition, lactation support, promoting pelvic floor health for life, and supporting moms (and dads) through pregnancy and infant loss.
Hi, I'm Erica Haff.
My heart for home birth started in 2023 when a close friend invited me to her home for the arrival of her fifth child. A year later I was invited to help at another home birth. Those births were so awe inspiring that I started reading everything I could get my hands on about home birth and midwifery. From that time on, I felt the Lord calling me to walk alongside families in those sacred hours of labor and the miracle of birth.
I began my formal midwifery training in January 2025 as a midwifery student at Holistic Birth Institute and under the mentorship of Kelly Fournier at Special Deliveries Midwifery. I am enjoying soaking up all the knowledge and skills to be able to support women with a gentle spirit through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
When not attending births, you can find me out in my cow pasture milking our cows alongside my husband of 19 years and our 4 amazing children, or out in the garden growing veggies and flowers.
I just love the miracle of new life, whether it's the arrival of a new baby, a calf, or blooming cosmos.
Hi, my name is Michelle Greek. I am a mother of four, Stepmom to six, and Grammy to 18 and counting! I first discovered my love for labor and birth in my Labor & Delivery clinical at nursing school, but realized I wanted to work in a much more natural setting. In the Lord’s timing, I started classes, and then received the opportunity to start clinical training with Kelly in 2024.I find that I have an ever growing passion for caring for moms and babies. I am very grateful to have the opportunity to share the pregnancy and birth journey of so many special moms, babies and their families. I am looking forward to the time when I will finish my training and then begin the next phase of my grand adventure as a Special Deliveries midwife!
The Midwives Model of Care is based on the fact that pregnancy and birth are normal life events.
It includes:
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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A Certified Professional Midwife is a midwife who has specialized training in home birth, and has passed an examination administered by the North American Registry of Midwives (www.NARM.org) which establishes her skills and knowledge regarding safe midwifery practice
I have had the amazing privilege and joy of serving women over the past nine years. I feel that knowledge, sensitivity, preparation, discernment, prayer, and a listening ear are essential in giving support and care throughout pregnancy, birth, and postnatal care. I am always in awe by how each birth is as beautiful and unique as the babies that are born. I have enjoyed many opportunities to deliver multiple children within the same family, along with the special privilege of serving as midwife for my own daughters.
"We prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him."
1 Samuel 1:26-28
"So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous.
And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own."
Exodus 1:20-21
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
Philippians 4:13
