Cynthia Barger, CPM
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Cynthia is a wife, mother, and midwife. She has finished her apprenticeship under Deidre DeGrado, CPM and Kathy Brace, CPM to become a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) and passed her NARM exam for certification in the fall of 2015. She has eight children and and has had both hospital and home births with them. She has been married to her international airline pilot husband for thirty-three years and enjoys traveling with him when she can.They have five married children now and their youngest daughter (20 yrs) is still at home along with their two yougest boys who are 13 & 15 years old. She continues her boy's home education as well keeping up with their basketball, baseball, camping, hiking, and hunting activites.
Cynthia's desire is to encourage women to understand the choices they have in birth and to assist them in planning for the birth they want, whether it be in the hospital or in a home setting. In 2010, Wichita Birth Assistance was born out of a vision that Cynthia had to grow the birthing community of Wichita through both education and training for both doulas and midwives. There is a need for more skilled birth doulas and midwives! It is also a goal of WBA to be an avenue to communicate to families about the resources available and how to connect to them as well as an avenue to build healthy relationships with the doctors and hosptials in the area. It has been her great privilege to work in the birthing community for the last twenty years, assisting at friends' births and working intermittently as a birth assistant, certified doula, student midwife, and now as a Certified Professional Midwife. Cynthia stresses the importance of having continuity of care by encouraging moms to choose a doula or a midwife to be part of their birth team. She is humbled by the opportunities she has had to serve families at such monumental times in their lives and by the opportunities she has had to learn more of God's provisions and faithfulness. She has found each mom, each family, and each birth to be unique and would count it her great privilege to assist you with doula services at your hospital birth or midwifery services at your home birth. . "In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation” Psalm 5:3
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