Christine graduated from Indiana University of PA in 1990 with a BS in Education and a major in Rehabilitation. She worked 6 years as a Case Manager and Rehabilitation Counselor before starting a famiily and staying home to raise 3 children. She received DONA certification as a Birth Doula in 2000 and has attended a number of births as a birth doula since that time. She is an accredited La Leche League Leader since 1999 and lives in the Harrisburg area.

Beth is a wife, mother of two, HomeBirth Midwife, and Naturopathic Doctor. As well as her practice as a Certified Professional Midwife, she has served on the Birth Experience Advisory Committee at Harrisburg Hospital, in Harrisburg, PA.

Mary's priorities are her family and her home birth practice. She believes that women have a right to have the choice of home birth and is committed to helping with that choice. Her undergraduate degree is a BA from Temple University in 1972. She started nursing school at age 42 in 1992 for the purpose of becoming a home birth midwife, worked for a year in labor and delivery units, studied with the Frontier School of Nurse-Midwifery, and began practicing in 2001 while finishing her Masters in Nursing. To supplement her home birth practice, she has worked for 4 years for the University of Maryland as a field nurse doing research among the Amish. In 2005, she dabbled in politics and ran for her borough council, losing by one vote. She lives with her husband and daughter, age 17. She also has a son age 21 studying architecture at Temple University, and a son age 25, and daughter in law, who reside in Washington D.C. and are active in the "green" movement.

Charley is a Birth Doula and DONA Birth Doula Trainer. She has been a Lamaze Instructor since 1985 and Fellow of the American College of Childbirth Educators since 1991. She is the mother of 5 (4 sons, 1 daughter) and grandmother of 2.

Nataki McNeal Bhatti is a mother, organizer, activist and educator with a passion for "womanist" forums. Raised to be an artist, she assumes the responsibility of upholding the continuum. She believes art or creative/innovative processes is an innate and integral part of every woman's life, especially birth. Further, she believes it is a woman's creativity that will serve as the conduit for transformational change, gradual or revolutionary.

In her life's work, in addition to being an artist, she has conceived, developed, and instituted programs and projects that artistically and creatively empower women and youth. Presently, she is developing a birth art workshop series that will foster spiritual, emotional and physical strength with pregnant mamas.

Since becoming a mother and having the support of the ""women whom knew the old ways," she feels a compulsion to pay it forward and support other women have the opportunity to have a wonderful miraculous birth without any sentiment of negativity or regret. Nataki says, "I love to daydream, relive the day my son was born. If the brain can not tell the difference between what is real or imagined...then I can live the joy over and over...it frees me, it heals me."

Dr. Gaby received his undergraduate degree from Yale University, his M.S. in biochemistry from Emory University, and his M.D. from the University of Maryland. He was in private practice for 17 years, specializing in nutritional medicine. He is past-president of the American Holistic Medical Association and gave expert testimony to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine on the cost-effectiveness of nutritional supplements. He is the author of Preventing and Reversing Osteoporosis (Prima, 1994), and The Patients's Book of Natural Healing (Prima, 1999), and has written numberous scientific papers in the field of nutritional medicine. He has been the contributing medical editor for the Townsend Letter for Doctors since 1985, and contributing editor for Alternative Medicine Review since 1996. Over the past 25 years, he has developed a computerized database of more than 25,000 individually chosen medical-journal articles related to the field of natural medicine. He was professor of nutrition and a member of the clinical faculty at Bastyr University in Kenmore, WA from 1995 to 2002. He has appeared on the CBS Evening News and the Donahue Show.

Pam is a Licensed Social Worker (LSW) and Childbirth Labor Assistant specializing in attachment and bonding, parent-child relationships and the treatment of stress, trauma, and severe behavioral disorders. Pam has over 15 years of experience working within the mental health, social services and school systems. She has received extensive training by Dr. Bryan Post, internationally renowned attachment expert, author, speaker, clinician and director of the Post Institute