We Are...
women, mothers, who strive to serve humanity from our highest place, in alignment and integrity with our soul’s purpose.
Mission & Vision
Our Mission
We are called to continue the work of our wise-women lineage and to provide a blend of traditional midwifery wisdom and evidence-based care that is emotionally-intelligent, spiritually-driven, and culturally-sensitive.
Our highest goal is to support every mother to use their journey as a catalyst for profound personal growth.
Our Vision
We envision that through our work we create a community of empowered and courageous mothers and women leading a matriarchal rising capable of changing society for the better.
Our Values
At Sacred Birth we are guided by the values closest to our hearts:
- We believe in creating a microcosm of matriarchy that puts mothers and their wellbeing at the center of all our efforts.
- We believe in autonomous, undisturbed birth and in holding the invitation for birth to be experienced this way.
- We believe that closing maternal health disparities among BIPOC women is of utmost importance and to do this requires dismantling systemic racism.
- We believe that the LGBTQ+ community deserves loving and respectful care from midwives who are supportive of their choice to become parents.
- We believe in vulnerability and radical self-honesty. To get to where we want to go we must first acknowledge where we are.
- We believe in honoring the ancestral knowledge of the wise-women, the parteras and the curanderas that came before us. We are grateful for their work, their sacrifices and their legacies.
Our Sacred Birth Family
Michelle Isla, LM
Midwife & Founder of Sacred Birth
My love of holistic birth began about 20 years ago. For me, midwifery came on my path to spiritual growth. Being reminded of the inherent knowledge that already lives in each of us, I learned to view birth and mothering as a spiritual rite of passage. For close to two decades I have immersed myself in a world of traditional woman-wisdom and cultivated my inner knowing and trust through my spiritual practice. Self-awareness and growth are most important to me personally. Naturally I created Sacred Birth to embody these values and infuse them in everything that we do in our practice.
I have been a Florida licensed midwife for over 10 yrs. Prior to this I was a doula, birth educator, lactation counselor, and served on the board of a non-profit birth organization. I’ve worked in our state health department providing breastfeeding advocacy, and attended births in home-birth and birth center settings. I earned a B.S in Business Administration from UCF and was also a public school teacher before entering the birth world.
I am proud to be the daughter of immigrants and proud of my South American heritage. I am honored to carry the tradition of my female ancestors- the parteras, hierberas, and curanderas of my maternal lineage. It is important for me to acknowledge them as without their sacrifice and wisdom, what I know now and who I am would simply not be possible. Equally important for me is to acknowledge the spiritual teachers and mentors who have guided me on my path. They have influenced and changed the course of my life through their selfless love, care, and dedication to being in service.
My two greatest teachers are my precious daughters, Luna and Nova, both of whom were born at home. Mothering them is my greatest inspiration and the ultimate catalyst to my spiritual growth. They continue to teach me that centering self-growth, conscious preparation, and mothering as a spiritual journey is important work to be done on the planet. They have taught me that this journey was as much about birthing a new Me as it was about birthing them.
Jaclyn Hauge, LM
Midwife
I’ve been working with Sacred Birth families since March of 2020 but I’ve been practicing Midwifery in birth-center and home-birth settings since 2015. Education is my main passion and I really love spending time talking with families about every aspect of how the birth process works. It’s so important for me to have well educated mothers, who pass knowledge about their bodies to their children. When we normalize talking about our bodies in an anatomical and positive way, we normalize talking about birth and create a generation of people who will see how wonderful, wise and dynamic our bodies really are.
I began Midwifery school in 2012 and graduated from FSTM in 2015. Throughout that time I was able to precept in a large Birth Center and attend hundreds of births. During my senior year I became pregnant and had my daughter Margaux in August of 2015, at home. It was a long and hard labor but there was never a doubt in my mind that I could do it, even when I didn’t really want to. That experience taught so much about how resilient and strong women are and made me so grateful to be in this community. When I think back to that day, I can’t imagine having that birth anywhere else. In July of 2019 I had another home birth. This was a totally different experience. I went into that day with a different confidence and after 3 hours of labor welcomed a son, Sullivan, into our family.
Jessica Wilson, LM
Midwife
I have been serving women during the pregnancy year for over 15 years. For the first 5 years, I worked as a midwife’s apprentice, doula, and birth assistant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. I apprenticed for a local homebirth midwife. I was a Dona-trained doula and was trained as birth assistant at The Farm by Pamela Hunt and Ina May Gaskins. I moved to Orlando, Florida to attend the Florida School of Traditional Midwifery. I became a Florida state licensed midwife in 2018 and since then have been serving Central and South Florida at birth centers and in the home birth setting. I have also worked as a clinical director for a birth center in South Florida and have served as a clinical preceptor for student midwives.
I first felt called to be a midwife 20 years ago through my pregnancy and birth of my first daughter. I was “midwifed” so well by a group of midwives in Baltimore, Maryland, I began looking for opportunities to pass along the type of care I received during pregnancy and birth.
After my second daughter was born, I began an apprenticeship to a local midwife and started my life of serving women during the pregnancy year. Through the years I have developed different passions that have defined the type of midwife I have become and am still becoming.
Some of those passions have been and are: providing individualized, conscientious care; providing evidence based care; providing education and honoring informed consent and shared decision making; preparing and supporting women for VBACs; providing education and support for maternal, perinatal mental health especially focused on postpartum depression and anxiety; social justice through prenatal care: addressing the disparity of outcomes for BIPOC parents through the midwifery model of care; nutrition and lifestyle support for pregnancy and postpartum; creating a culture of support for other midwives and student midwives; teaching and precepting student midwives.
Outside of midwifery I love history, reading, traveling, nature walks, the ocean, kayaking and paddle boarding, spending time with my family and friends.
Alejandra DeMaio, IBCLC
Educator & Breastfeeding Support
Most of you know me as Ale. I am a bilingual IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant), birth & postpartum doula, and childbirth educator. I take pride in being an educator for Sacred Birth Midwifery where I teach a variety of classes and facilitate Mama Rising, our weekly pregnancy & postpartum support circles.
I was born and raised in Colombia but moved to the states when I was a teenager and graduated from UCF with a bachelor’s degree in psychology.
I started my path in the birth world soon after my first son. After an empowering, unmedicated, vaginal birth, I wanted to be a support for other families. I began as a birth assistant, where I learned a lot about physiological birth, and mother-infant care from birth through the early postpartum hours. As I continued my journey, I often found myself wanting to be nurturing the birthing mother during labor — breathing with her, supporting her emotionally, and caring for her family’s needs. Therefore, I decided to become a certified birth & postpartum doula and also trained to be a lactation counselor. I worked as a breastfeeding peer counselor for the Department of Health in Orange County. A few years into my employment, I also passed the IBCLC exam. While all that was happening, I also birthed three more sons at home and breastfed each for four years.
I consider mothering to be one of the most profound and powerful experiences of my life. I am an advocate for conscious pregnancy, natural childbirth, connected parenting, and healthy living. I have found my passion in guiding, holding space, and honoring other families on their own journey to parenthood. In addition to my work as an IBCLC, doula, and childbirth educator, I also offer a variety of services such as facilitating mother blessing ceremonies, belly casts, henna art, birth photography, sealing ceremonies, belly binding, and placenta encapsulation. I look forward to connecting with you and supporting your journey.
Olivia Richmond
Office Manager
I love to talk about all things birth, breastfeeding, babywearing and everything that goes with supporting conscious and compassionate community care for women and families. My passion has brought me here where I support both the midwives of Sacred Birth and the women and families we serve.
My husband Christopher and I raise our four fantatstic and sinspiring children, Evelyn, Adeline, Juniper, and Leandro here in Seminole County. You might see Leo at the office with me as our “Assistant” Office Manager! Our kids are third generation Floridians and we love to spend as much time as possible out in nature enjoying the diversity of ecosystems we have here in Central Florida. When we travel we like to go to the beach and spend time between the Florida Keys and the Western mountains of North Carolina as much as we can.
In my spare time I am a volunteer Leader for La Leche League of Greater Orlando, supporting mothers and families to meet their breastfeeding goals.
Brittany Muscarella
Client Welcomer
Supporting women throughout their pregnancy, birth and postpartum experience has been one of the greatest joys of my life. I am a licensed massage therapist, birth doula and artist. I love to work with umbilical cords to create funky dreamcatcher art. My journey as a massage therapist led me to study prenatal bodywork, which inevitably led me to fall in love with the process of birth. Through my experience, I realized how powerful massage therapy can be for the pregnant and postpartum body.
I became a doula student after working in multiple prenatal based offices as a prenatal massage therapist. I was lucky enough to mentor under really incredible women and will forever consider myself a student of the incredible birthing body. I feel so honored and privileged to witness birth and support families through their pregnancy, birth and postpartum journey. I deeply cherish the transformations that come with birth and carry my position as a doula with my whole heart. Working under Michelle and Jaclyn has been an incredible joy of mine. If you are interested in our offerings here at Sacred Birth, you will likely chat with me over the phone and I will be happy to explain all things home birth. Deep in my bones, I believe in the work of Sacred Birth Midwifery and I am so happy to be our receptionist. I can’t wait to chat with you!
