Amanda Smith, CPM, LM

Certified Professional Midwife & Licensed Midwife

Training & Credentials:

NARM (North American Registry of Midwives) Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) since May 2022

NARM (North American Registry of Midwives) Bridge Certificate - August 2023

Licensed Midwife - Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners - since March 2024

Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Certified continuously since 2017

Adult/Infant Basic Life Support + CPR for Health Care Workers Certified Continuously since 2017

Prevention and Management of Gestational Diabetes (Hive: CE) - March 2023

Midwifery Wisdom: Fetal Heart Tone Monitoring - February 2023

Birth Emergency Skills Training - July 2023

Hands-On Suturing Workshop (Hive: CE) - May 2023

Mercy In Action: Midwives & The First 1,000 Days - July 2023

Midwifery Wisdom: Advanced Practice Midwifery Workshop - July 2021

Breech Without Borders: Breech Proficiency for Birth Professionals - October 2020

Spinning Babies: Resolving Shoulder Dystocia Certification - July 2020

Member of the Association of Christian Birth Professionals since 2019

Doulas of North America (DONA) Certified Birth Doula - 2014-2020

Brilliant Birth Academy Certified Placenta Specialist since 2017

Meet Amanda

While supporting her sister during labor and delivery in 2012, Amanda knew for certain that God was calling her to the ministry of birth work. In early 2014, she began serving families professionally during the childbearing year as a DONA Certified Birth Doula and Childbirth Educator.

In July of 2017, Amanda began the process of becoming a Certified Professional Midwife with the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM). From 2018-2022, she worked as a Student Midwife in an apprenticeship with Jennifer Green, CPM of Organic HomeBirth in Colorado Springs. After completing the Midwife To Be academic program, fulfilling all of the Clinical Requirements, and passing the NARM exam, she earned the designation of Certified Professional Midwife in May of 2022. Amanda considers it an honor to walk with families through pregnancy, childbirth, and into parenthood.

Amanda has been married to her husband Jason for 19 years, and she homeschools thier five children.

190

Over 190 families served during Labor and Delivery, since beginning birth work in 2014.

Seventy of those were planned hospital births, seven were planned birth center births, and the rest have been home births.

Home Births attended Under the Supervision of Certified Professional Midwives over the course of a 5 year apprenticeship.

Families that have hired Amanda as their Primary Midwife

since 2021. Two additional families have chosen to birth with Hattiesburg Midwifery for the second time!

Only 3% of those who birthed with Amanda needed a Cesarean Delivery. In 2021, 32.1% of American mothers delivered via C-Section, and Mississippi has the nation's highest C-Section Rate at 38.2%.

50%

Percentage of mothers that gave birth in the water at home with Amanda and her team.