Hi I’m Taraé! (Traditional Homebirth Midwife)

Hi, I’m Taraé. I have 5 kids, and grew up in Massachusetts, to where I have Wampanoag Tribe and Cape Verdean Ancestry. I love making beautiful things with my hands, whether it’s painting, photography, or working with the plants to make herbal medicines.

 My calling to birth work is very much intertwined with the story of my own birth experiences. My first experience with midwifery, was in 2010 at the end of my first pregnancy. A midwife happened to be covering for my OB in the office that day, and I immediately made a connection to her nurturing demeanor, empathy, and warmth. From that day, I knew that my subsequent births would be with midwives.

 In 2015, after my first out-of-hospital birth experience with my second baby, I became a Doula, and a birth photographer. I was so deeply inspired by the transformative experience of a birth ceremony led completely by my own body. I was in awe of the power and deep intuitive knowledge that came so instinctually with traditional birth, and from there, felt called to help others find the same.

 In 2017, after my homebirth cesarean experience, (a planned out-of-hospital birth that ends in a hospital transport and cesarean) I was called to the path of midwifery. I experienced firsthand the issue in the hospital system with non-indicated operative births and knew that I wanted to actively help prevent as many as I could, by becoming a Traditional Midwife myself.

I enrolled at Birthwise Midwifery School from 2017-2020, And have attended home births in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine.

 In 2021, I became a coordinator for ‘Eastern Woodlands Rematriation’ where I worked to bring traditional birth ceremonies and practices back to the tribal nations in the Northeast, through doula training, mossbag making, and welcome ceremonies for new babies born to Indigenous families.

 I believe homebirth is one of the last traditional ceremonies we collectively have access to, and it’s important to preserve it. True autonomous birth, heals and empowers. My philosophy is, healed and empowered women and families, will ripple that out into the world around them and help repair the circle.