Charlotte Sanchez (CPM) is a childbirth educator and a Midwife. She has supported women and their families in the natural home birth process for over 18 years. As an Atlanta midwife, she believes in a woman’s right to determine her own choice of care during pregnancy and birth.
She received her training through an extensive internship before becoming a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM), a program developed by the North American Registry of Midwives and currently serves as vice president of the Georgia Midwife association
Charlotte has attended home births throughout the United States and Canada in places such as Michigan, Ohio, Georgia, Kentucky, California and Windsor. She has also co-directed a free standing family birthing center in the state of Michigan. Charlotte specializes in water birth, vbac, twins and breech birth.
She has trained highly motivated interns who became practicing Midwives. Personally Charlotte is a mother of four children whom three were born gently into the hands of midwives, the last being a home waterbirth.
Mandi Call received her Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Iowa in 2001 and found her calling as a midwife in the years that followed. She has been apprenticing under Certified Professional Midwives since November 2008 while pursuing self-study and didatics through the Aviva Institute.
In addition to her midwifery studies she has obtained Childbirth and Breastfeeding Educator and Doula certifications. She has attended a number of hospital births serving women as a Monitrice Doula and serves as a birth advocate through the North Metro Birth and Breastfeeding Coalition of Atlanta (NMBBC).
In addition to attending over 100 out-of-institution births, she completed her training in the fall of 2010, which included a 7 week intensive at Casa de Nacimiento in El Paso, Texas and is now a CPM candidate. Her most recent accomplishment came at home on December 7, 2010 when she and her husband welcomed their fourth child into their arms.