Called to midwifery in 2020, Desi trained under many exceptional Utah midwives and completed the requirements for her CPM and LDEM in early 2024. A proponent of client-centered care, Desi loves to guide mothers to their best choices for nurturing the next generation.
As a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Desi specializes in fertility nutrition counseling to help couples optimize their path to parenthood. On the other spectrum, Desi loves to assist peri-menopausal & menopausal women in nourishing their bodies to balance their hormones for a more sustainable life after 50. She also carries a passion for wholesome, nourishing foods and herbs that build strong bodies, improve health outcomes, and nurture generations. She believes in and teaches small, simple, sustainable changes to promote longevity and vitality.
Beyond midwifery, you’ll find Desi either sowing, weeding, harvesting, or preserving her abundant vegetable, herb, and flower gardens OR planting seeds of truth and wisdom through study, writing, and homeschooling. She is blessed to mother seven children through all their varied life-stages and is honored to walk beside her husband of nearly three decades. Desi carries a deep, God-gifted love for people and partners with God in all her decisions and work. She serves families living among the towering mountains of the Wasatch Front or anyone with a zoom link.
The Motherheart Midwifery Model of Care
In the hallowed time after a baby enters the world, a mother, father, and baby, left undisturbed, will integrate their birth journey into a calm, peaceful state of awe and loving devotion. Physiological hormones, like oxytocin, increase during this time to promote a healthy attachment, a willingness to sacrifice, and a deep connection to the baby in parental hearts. This physiologic response also aids in releasing the placenta, minimizing hemorrhage, and setting the stage for successful nursing. As the growing family embrace this experience, deep bonds forge that strengthen commitment to one another. THIS is the golden hour--a time of spiritual, emotional, and physiologic sacred space. Motherheart Midwifery seeks to inspire many golden hours in the lives of growing families by teaching principles that nourish the body, heart, and mind of parents prior to, during, and after their birth journeys. In teaching parents to trust their intuition & nourish their souls, MotherHeart Midwifery encourages families to seek happiness, peace, and many golden hours in their hearts and homes before, during and long after the birth day.