Twin Cities Midwifery serves families of all races, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, and gender identities. Our personalized care is built upon safety, evaluation, education, and shared decision-making so that each family receives the support and guidance they deserve during their incredible journey.
Kate Saumweber Hogan, CPM, LM
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Kate believes in the natural process of pregnancy and birth, the intuitive wisdom in each person’s body, and that every growing family deserves the support of midwifery care. She believes parents are the best decision-makers for their families and that her role is to provide options and help clients learn about their choices. She is honored to witness couples grow into families, children become siblings, and the power of birth.
Kayla Kronfeld, Birth Assistant, Doula
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Kayla joined the TCM team in August of 2022. Her professional experience includes attending births as a doula in various birth settings, training as a student-midwife in both a homebirth practice and a birth center, and receiving her formal midwifery education at the Midwives College of Utah. In addition to being a TCM team member, she is also a Birth Assistant at a busy birth center and leads the Childbirth Education series with the Queer Birth Project. Her experience in birth work began in 2018. She has had the privilege of supporting many families on their journeys of conception, pregnancy, labor/birth, and during the postpartum time. Kayla is passionate about providing informed, safe, and consensual care and is active in staying up-to-date on the newest evidenced-based practices. Kayla was previously a middle school educator and finds great joy in discussing with clients all of their options every step of the way, especially in relation to cultural and lifestyle practices. When not at the practice or at a birth, you can find Kayla canoeing around one of the many lakes or rivers in the Twin Cities area with her wife and their two pups. She also enjoys reading anything by Grady Hendrix or Samantha Irby with a cat in her lap (she has three!), and thrives on pastries from the various bakeries in the metro. She is honored to support TCM families!
Emily, Office Manager
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Emily spent her childhood in central Indiana and grew into an adult in Minneapolis, where she met her husband and lived for 11 years. She worked for 7 years in leadership positions at Whole Foods Market fine tuning her customer service skills, supporting team member development and integrating system efficiencies. After the birth of her first daughter, she felt a strong inner pull to work with families during this transformational time in their lives and began her training as a birth doula, lactation counselor and was a founding board member of Twin Cities Doula Project. In the summer of 2015, she and her family moved to Munster, IN where they now live about 30 minutes outside of Chicago. Emily believes there is something very special about the birth community of the Twin Cities and she is so grateful to be a part of it again, even from a distance. She enjoys being outside in the sunshine with her 3 children, quiet nights in with her husband and anything dark chocolate.
What To Expect
Twin Cities Midwifery is unique. When you begin care with one of our midwives, you choose the care provider you will see for your full course of care – from prenatal to postpartum. In many other practices, you see different midwives and birth with whoever happens to be on call. We so strongly value continuity of care we have you meet all of the contracted midwives on our team so you can choose who will be on this journey with you, every step of the way. We also value self-care for our midwives and sustainability for our practice. We always have a back-up midwife in place so if for any unforeseen reason your midwife is unavailable, you will still be in excellent hands.
Every homebirth team includes a Licensed Midwife plus a second birth assistant. Both are trained and certified in neonatal resuscitation. Team members are determined based on client preference, due time, and location. The assistant joins the family at their 36-week home visit so they can meet and confirm that they feel like a good fit for the team.
