Mary-Signe Kelly CNM

Mary-Signe Kelly was born in Wisconsin, into a loving family who always supported her goals and dreams. After receiving a Bachelor of Science in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, she traveled to Guatemala to study Spanish. While in Guatemala, she volunteered with a midwife and was introduced to the awesome experience of birth.

After returning to the US, she returned to school and graduated from the University of Miami with a nursing degree. It was during her obstetric rounds that she realized that many of the obstetric medical interventions were not always necessary and that women needed to understand all the implications of such interventions.

After finishing nursing school, she moved to Colorado, where she fell in love, first with the mountains and then with her husband, Michael. While working as a Labor and Delivery nurse for three years, assisting at over 300 births as a nurse using her skills in natural labor guiding women during their birth, she completed a Master’s degree in Midwifery at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She learned from midwives that normal, natural labor was possible even in the hospital setting. She believes empowering women is the most important aspect of midwifery.

Following graduation, she moved to the Philippines then to India. In India, she worked at Hyderabad’s largest maternity centers educating nurses and doctors to provide more holistic and woman-centered birth. Later she worked at India’s only free-standing birthing center which provided holistic midwifery care including natural childbirth, water birth and home visits.

Mary-Signe gave birth to her own son while in India. She had a water birth. The experiences of the pregnancy, birth, and of motherhood, including struggles with breastfeeding, have given her a greater understanding of what a midwife can do to help support women.

Mary-Signe is excited to be back in Colorado to share what she has learned abroad and to be able to provide holistic woman and family centered care. She feels every woman has the power to deliver her baby on her own terms, and through her care, help in this empowerment.