Mike Loomis is a nurse, a father, and the founder of OB1Health, a startup focused on developing applications to achieve better outcomes for patients and families. With over 18 years of experience as a registered nurse in maternal-child health, Mike has supported and empowered families during some of life’s most transformative moments. After witnessing firsthand the unique challenges and gaps in resources faced by new fathers, he decided to create Call of Dad Duty to provide guidance and support alongside humor and experience.

Mike Loomis, Nurse, OB1Health

BIRTH Fair is coming up on October 5, at United Way, 50 Waugh Drive, from 10:30 am to 4:00 pm.

Please be sure to listen to this show and learn what the 20th annual BIRTH Fair can do for our community!!!!

We hope you’ll attend our free event. See you there!

Christine Diaz, Co-Executive Manager
Shay Wallace, Marketing/Publicity/Community Outreach Coordinator
JacQue Colson-Smith, Family Area Coordinator
Kiwis Apeh, Volunteer Coordinator
Debbie Hull, Doula, Speaker Coordinator
Jackie Griggs, CNM, RN, Midwifery Liaison
Natalie Guzman, Fashion Show Coordinator
Randy Holmes, DC, logistics coordinator

BIRTH Fair 2024

Kathleen Wilson is a founding member of TLC Doula Group, owner of Labor Enabler Doula Services and Co-Owner of Rebel Birth Education and Resource Haven. She has been a doula since 2003. She has not only taken several doula trainings, but is the founder of the Labor Enabler Doula Apprenticeship Program. She spends her time teaching and volunteering within the reproductive community. Kathleen loves working in all environments and with all care providers to ensure her clients have their best possible birth. Kathleen was married in 1997 to her very supportive spouse. She has four amazing children. She loves to cook and travel. She is one of the luckiest people in the world.

Kathleen Wilson, Doula

Melissa Nealy, CPM, IBCLC, has been a part of the out of hospital birth community for the last decade and found her love for midwifery 14 years ago prior to the birth of her oldest daughter. She has presented at local and national conferences on the topic of lactation complications for midwives. Spending 5 years as an IBCLC she is thrilled to be able to exclusively be a midwife for the last two years. She is a homeschooling mother of 3 stunning and bright children, husband to the most supportive man (you have to be supportive if you’re married to a midwife) and the family hosts 11 mammal and reptile friends in their home. (cats, dogs, mice and snakes). She is always thrilled to speak more about her passions

Melissa Nealy, CPM, IBCLC

Whole Mother continues the conversation about the layoff of the midwives of Women’s Specialists of Houston at Texas Children’s Hospital Pavilion for Women. Dr. Ginger Breedlove discusses the economic realities that do not point to financial reasons for the layoffs, despite Texas Children’s Hospital’s official position.

Dr. Ginger Breedlove, PhD, CNM, FACNM, FAAN of Grow Midwives

We at Whole Mother are saddened and outraged at the loss of the midwifery portion of the Women’s Specialists of Houston at Texas Children’s Hospital. Listen to the voices of our community speaking against this closing and of the impact the practice has had on the families in our community.

Midwifery closure of Women’s Specialists of Houston at Texas Children’s Hospital

Taylor Lee is a new midwife in the Beaumont area. She is married to my husband, Matt, and they have two children, Reid, and Mila, who are almost 10 and 6. Taylor has been in birth work for about 7 years and she has a passion for educating about birth, babies, and breastfeeding. She teaches group childbirth education, do in-home lactation counseling, and she runs a co-ed Facebook group for families desiring an out of hospital birth in the Southeast Texas Area.

Taylor Lee, CPM

John V. Geisheker, JD, LL.M, has practiced medico-legal law as an arbitrator, mediator, litigator, and law lecturer, for over 30 years. He is currently the full-time pro bono Executive Director and General Counsel for Doctors Opposing Circumcision, an international physicians’ charity based in Seattle, Washington. D.O.C.’s members and supporters oppose merely cultural, non-therapeutic, genital cutting of children, male, female or intersex, on human rights’ grounds.

John is a native of New Zealand, a country that fully abandoned medicalized male circumcision in the 1960’s. He hopes his adopted U.S.A. will someday follow that principled example.

John V. Geisheker, JD, LL.M

Heather Goodwin is the Director of Heights of Health Holistic Therapy Services, and Heather empowers adults and children with proven life-transforming tools. Her mindfulness, behaviorally-based and multi-disciplinary approach is rooted in the recognition that emotional issues cannot be separated from physical, social, spiritual, and cognitive influences.

Heather is the cofounder of TriVibrance, a 3-female owned company that has created powerful, energetically imprinted products to empower the release of unharmonious energies and to allow the flow of higher vibration energy and emotions into and within the body. She also co-created Present Time Kids, a cutting-edge, neuroscience and mindfulness-based program for schools and at-home use.

Heather holds a Master’s degree in Education and is a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner. In the past, she has served in an administrative role as a District-Wide Behavior Specialist for a large urban school district in Houston. Other notable roles include lead associate in one of our nation’s cutting-edge educational consulting firms, Director of Behavior Programs for a national publishing company in Colorado and a requested national speaker, radio and TV guest.

Heather Goodwin, Holistic Therapy, Part 2

Heather Goodwin is the Director of Heights of Health Holistic Therapy Services, and Heather empowers adults and children with proven life-transforming tools. Her mindfulness, behaviorally-based and multi-disciplinary approach is rooted in the recognition that emotional issues cannot be separated from physical, social, spiritual, and cognitive influences.

Heather is the cofounder of TriVibrance, a 3-female owned company that has created powerful, energetically imprinted products to empower the release of unharmonious energies and to allow the flow of higher vibration energy and emotions into and within the body. She also co-created Present Time Kids, a cutting-edge, neuroscience and mindfulness-based program for schools and at-home use.

Heather holds a Master’s degree in Education and is a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner. In the past, she has served in an administrative role as a District-Wide Behavior Specialist for a large urban school district in Houston. Other notable roles include lead associate in one of our nation’s cutting-edge educational consulting firms, Director of Behavior Programs for a national publishing company in Colorado and a requested national speaker, radio and TV guest.

Heather Goodwin, Heights of Health Holistic Therapy