“It is good to regard labor as hard work to be done, work that a long line of [female] ancestors did in the past that enables us to be here at all.”
— Ina May Gaskin, Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth
Hello, my name is Brielle Weber, MA, MSN, RN. My interest in birth work began in 2010, when my sister had twins and I have been enthralled ever since.
I have a Master’s Degree in Health Advocacy from Sarah Lawrence College and a Master of Nursing from Johns Hopkins University. I worked as a public health nurse in Washington D.C. ensuring quality healthcare was available to all for a few years, and now I am a postpartum home visiting nurse. I also teach prenatal and postnatal yoga from a trauma-informed lens and focus on pelvic floor awareneness and health. I love how mindfulness, science, connection, and movement can come together to help support birthing people during the prenatal, labor and delivery, and postnatal periods.
Over the years, I have studied and worked in public health, both nationally and internationally, focusing on maternal and infant health and methods of increasing resiliency in caretakers and children. I am also a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer who worked as a Community Health Volunteer in rural Ethiopia.
I am passionate about how birth work can serve as activism and disrupt power systems that are deeply rooted in racism and sexism. That is why I am working to ensure that these services can be available to everyone.