Delivering Joy!

Midwife Kira CPM,LM

@CajunStork

Clinical Director | Midwife

After two-plus years of nursing school at The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Kira instead decided to pursue midwifery education at Aviva Institute for Maternal-Child Health. While in midwifery school in 2009 she began serving women as a doula in the hospital and apprenticing with local midwives in both a birth center and homebirth setting. In 2013, she obtained her Midwifery License from the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners and Certified Professional Midwife certification from North American Registry of Midwives. Since 2013, her professional practice experience includes montrice services, midwifery practices in both homebirth and freestanding birth centers and clinical staff midwifery for Acadiana OBGYN.

Having founded two of the five freestanding birth centers in Louisiana, Kira serves our birth community not only as a midwife but also as a competent entrepreneur who loves advocating for natural birth. She has strong skills in midwifery, teaching and public speaking supported by a professional profile which includes being a YouTube Content Creator and Social Media Influencer best known as CajunStork.

Terresa Grace

Midwife

Terresa is a gentle-spirited and compassionate Midwife, devoted to providing holistic, faith-filled care throughout pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Her journey into birth work began at 14 years old when she witnessed her sister’s long and traumatic hospital birth, which sparked a deep passion for guiding families toward a more empowering experience. In 2012 she obtained a Bachelor’s of Arts from Georgia Fox University and in 2021 a Diploma in Midwifery Mercy in Action, a MEAC accredited midwifery school.

Licensed in multiple states and very well-traveled, Midwife “Tesa” has had the privilege of serving diverse communities, seamlessly adapting to various cultural birth practices. With a wealth of experience in homebirth and birth centers, as well as primary care, postpartum midwifery and birth assisting alongside esteemed midwives, Terresa considers herself a life-long learner of birth and is passionate about her calling to serve.

Midwife Kira CPM,LM

@CajunStork

Clinical Director | Midwife

After two-plus years of nursing school at The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Kira instead decided to pursue midwifery education at Aviva Institute for Maternal-Child Health. While in midwifery school in 2009 she began serving women as a doula in the hospital and apprenticing with local midwives in both a birth center and homebirth setting. In 2013, she obtained her Midwifery License from the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners and Certified Professional Midwife certification from North American Registry of Midwives. Since 2013, her professional practice experience includes montrice services, midwifery practices in both homebirth and freestanding birth centers and clinical staff midwifery for Acadiana OBGYN.

Having founded two of the five freestanding birth centers in Louisiana, Kira serves our birth community not only as a midwife but also as a competent entrepreneur who loves advocating for natural birth. She has strong skills in midwifery, teaching and public speaking supported by a professional profile which includes being a YouTube Content Creator and Social Media Influencer best known as CajunStork.

Midwife Jamie APRN, CNM

Practice Manager | Midwife

After completing four years in the US Navy, Midwife Jamie then graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette as a Registered Nurse in 1999. She served as a labor and delivery nurse at Women’s and Children’s Hospital for 17 years, through which time she had the opportunity to serve women and advocate for better birth experiences for them. Overtime she felt a calling to make a greater difference in the healthcare of birthing women in Acadiana and began to pursue becoming a Certified Nurse Midwife.

In 2021, Jamie graduated with a Masters of Science in Nurse Midwifery from Frontier University truly expecting to serve women birthing in the hospital setting but instead found a deep love of the freestanding birth center model of midwifery. She is a kind and competent midwife that enjoys the relationship-based model of midwifery. Through a wealth of experience obtained through her 1200 hospital births assists she is not only able to help clients remain healthy and low-risk but also seamlessly transfers her knowledge into the prenatal and birth environment in a way that empowers women while sharing in their joy!

Terresa Grace

Midwife

Terresa is a gentle-spirited and compassionate Midwife, devoted to providing holistic, faith-filled care throughout pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Her journey into birth work began at 14 years old when she witnessed her sister’s long and traumatic hospital birth, which sparked a deep passion for guiding families toward a more empowering experience. In 2012 she obtained a Bachelor’s of Arts from Georgia Fox University and in 2021 a Diploma in Midwifery Mercy in Action, a MEAC accredited midwifery school.

Licensed in multiple states and very well-traveled, Midwife “Tesa” has had the privilege of serving diverse communities, seamlessly adapting to various cultural birth practices. With a wealth of experience in homebirth and birth centers, as well as primary care, postpartum midwifery and birth assisting alongside esteemed midwives, Terresa considers herself a life-long learner of birth and is passionate about her calling to serve.