“Our home birth was short and sweet, but our intention, support, and unwavering trust with Bri at Génnisi, Home Birth Collective, was strong and consistent throughout our entire pregnancy and after.

Having a holistic approach toward birth and leading with intuition was something I felt in my bones, but didn't yet believe to be true until meeting and learning with our team, Bri and Chelsey.

I will forever relive the hug I felt with Bri when she arrived at my birth. The moment when the weight lifted and tears streamed from my eyes as I surrendered into Bri's embrace at my door when she came, only an hour before our baby was born. My body knew it was time, even though my mind had to be convinced. That hug held such a beautiful surrender to birth that came swiftly and intuitively with her guidance.

Her reassurance and guidance came again when my mind needed convincing moments before I pushed. I couldn’t believe birth could come so beautifully and quickly. I remember making eye contact with Bri and asking, 'Can this be it?' and she confidently reassured me that 'it is.' Hearing those words settled my heart and assured my body that it was time to meet my baby only moments after.

The uniqueness of this birth was that Bri and I were learning together - a first home birth for my family and her first home birth as a midwife - and that is irreplaceable.

Many times I remember looking at and smiling with my husband throughout our family appointments, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum with a beautiful sense of calmness and reassurance, recalling the words 'there is a whole new world' away from Western medicine that is innate, beautiful, and feels so right to us.

We leaned in especially deep with Bri and our team because we chose in our hearts to keep our plan private from our loved ones, as we had not experienced it before and couldn't speak to it until we had. We knew it was something we wholeheartedly wanted and didn't want to be persuaded or convinced otherwise. Every appointment was intentional, personalized, filled with knowledge, resources, and a relationship built that was completely tailored to us.

We together held tight to our hopes and dreams for birth and pregnancy, knowing that Bri was handpicked by us with trust from the start. Such trust that only Bri knew the gender of our baby; we had entrusted her with our ultrasound, which held the gender, and both names we had loved, one for a girl and one for a boy. We asked if she could pick out the embroidered blanket that matched the gender and name of our baby.
Bri did it without question and gave it to us on our day of birth, another special moment from our journey together.

Bri was the strong guidance for our intimate story and baby that brought such a sense of familiarity and comfort the whole way through, that without, we just wouldn't have known who would have been a part of our birth story or our day. So, though labor came and went quickly, it has forever been surrounded with such power, trust, instinct, and a village since day one, thanks to Bri.”

— Megan P., Homebirth midwifery client