A BIT OF HISTORY: After 20 years attending births, first as a doula and then as a homebirth midwife, Katherine Bramhall carefully surveyed available choices in maternity care providers and settings in both Vermont and New Hampshire. What she found was that available choices were filled with gaps, and options were rapidly dwindling for low-risk, healthy families. Not everyone felt comfortable with homebirth and many wanted another choice besides a hospital.
Additionally, she held a deep belief that every individual deserves access to quality, equitable, and respectful maternity care. The recent consolidation and closing of maternity units all over the region left the Upper Valley community and beyond with limited choices for care.
The clear solution was to create a new choice in maternity care: an independent, midwife-led, freestanding birth center in a region of the Upper Valley where there remained no other choice but a large hospital for families to get low-intervention care for their low-risk pregnancy.
Gentle Landing Birth Center is a free-standing, independent, midwife-led birth center and is based on the need that we all want to be seen and cared for as a whole person; that our health exists within the context of our entire life history. Gentle Landing Midwifery and Birth Center holds this wholeness as essential to uncompromising health care. We are deeply committed to caring for you from this position.
Katherine Bramhall is a certified professional midwife, licensed in Vermont and New Hampshire. She is a graduate of a nationally accredited midwifery school and has practiced home birth midwifery in Vermont and New Hampshire since 2008. She blends her philosophy of kindness and acceptance with her depth of knowledge and life experience to provide gentle, peaceful and safe home birth midwifery care.
Katherine blends over 30 years of birth experience in a wide variety of settings and situations, a compassionate heart, deep listening and a scientific mind to offer comprehensive, creative and individualized care to each family she is blessed to work with. She is a fierce advocate for informed choice, committed partnership in care and evidence-based midwifery.
"As a first time mother, I could not have asked for better care in my pregnancy, birthing and motherhood journey. I feel extremely lucky to be part of the Gentle Landing family.."