Nicole Croft

I began my journey with midwifery and birth over 14 years ago, when a group of Nurse-Midwives set me on the journey of motherhood.  After the birth of my second child, I became a Certified Doula and began attending births.  Shortly after, I began to experience birth not as gentle and empowering, as I had, but as violent and traumatic to women and their babies. I enrolled in the Utah Association of Community Midwives education program in Salt Lake, and later apprenticed with Suzanne Smith, Hennessey Hansen, Holly Richardson, and Naturopath Leslie Peterson. 

After a brief private practice at Mother Rising Maternity Care, I took time off to complete my Bachelor’s degree at Westminster College.  At Westminster, I had the opportunity to combine my love of midwifery and anthropology into an ethnography of Utah midwives, a project that I continue to work on today.  After graduating summa cum laude, my family decided to pursue our dream of building a simple, sustainable life in the heart of the Colorado Plateau.  Now my days are filled with hiking and exploring, volunteering in the community, gardening and learning the ropes of small town rural life.  I am very happy to once again be a part of the midwifery community, because I believe the self-actualization of women is vital for our culture, and the midwife’s role is indispensable in supporting that during one of the most significant times in a woman’s life.