Rondi Anderson

I've been a midwife since 1977. My passion for midwifery began with the birth of my daughter. I felt the birth experience was a powerful right of passage that transformed me from a just barely young adult into a mother bear, and connected me to all mothers past and future. Her birth now 33 years ago propelled me with a passion I had thought only new lovers know, to a career as a midwife. I felt moved to give birth back to women, back to their intuitive senses that would if trusted teach them what they needed to know for this new era of there lives.

My career started in Lansing, Michigan. Not long into it I met Mary Gadbaw Davis. We with a group of powerful women fueled the fires of alternative birth, our own babies in our arms or tied to our backs. I then went on to nursing and midwifery school becoming a CNM. On the way I worked as a nurse on a Navajo reservation and in an alternative birth center. Then I spent 10 years in Lancaster County Pennsylvania doing home births with mostly Amish women. I worked with many students and wrote articles, doing what I could to let the world know that women need choice and that their bodies are trustable. From there I went to Somalia and worked with Doctors Without Borders (DWB) for a year. That was a very different experience, sobering in many ways, and affirming of the tenacity of the human spirit. Then back to the United States for five years working in a hospital on the North Shore of Boston. I learned that even in the midst of technology it is possible to honor women and embrace the power of birth. Then another two years with DWB in Sierra Leone and India. I returned again and worked for a short time as a hospice nurse and then back to the Amish in Northern Indiana. Aging parents have brought me back to the Michigan area. I am honored to have the chance to work again with Mary and get to know all of you.

For fun I run and dance and garden and spend time with friends and family.

I hope to meet you soon!