Stephanie Meyer

In 2015, Stephanie graduated from Idaho State University with a bachelor’s degree in anthropology. While taking a class in global health she discovered an immense fascination for different birth practices around the world, learning about pregnancy and childbirth in a globalized context – as a normal, natural, physiological process with meaning expressed through cultural rituals and practices – a stark contrast to medicalized birth. Her senior year of college she studied abroad in Thailand where she researched maternal health care in a rural village, desiring to understand the intersection of incoming biomedicine and traditional birth practices. At that intersection, she realized, is each individual woman who deserves a birth that is both safe and meaningful to them. Stephanie became interested in learning more about care that emcompasses not only the physical aspects of pregnancy and birth but also the spiritual and emotional. She found her passion in midwifery. Following her academic year in Thailand she spent a summer volunteering at a hospital in Pakistan where she shadowed nurses, doctors and midwives experiencing the highs of births and the lows of preventable complications as they all-too-commonly occur in the developing world. Her life mission became to provide compassionate and culturally-appropriate midwifery care to women and their families around the world. She returned to Idaho and enrolled in Mercy in Action’s College of Midwifery where she obtained a diploma in midwifery. In 2021 Stephanie sat for and passed her NARM exam to become a certified professional midwife and in 2022 she received licensure in the state of Idaho. Stephanie holds current certification in Adult/Pediatric CPR and Neonatal Resuscitation. With ambitions to one day provide midwifery care around the world, Stephanie is currently raising her young family and loving being a part of births in Southeast Idaho.