Bee Jackson, CPM, LM
Community Birth Twin Cities
Service area: Providing services within 45 minutes of the metro
Email: mnmidwifebritt@gmail.com
I’m Bee, and my calling to midwifery began with the birth of my third and last daughter. I became a mother at a young age and experienced the traditional healthcare system without much knowledge of pregnancy, birth, or how my experience of each would impact my journey into motherhood. During my last pregnancy, I had this drive (that at that time, I had no idea where it came from) to do things differently. I chose a midwife-attended unmedicated birth for my last birth and left that birth feeling so powerful, transformed, and deeply proud of myself.
I experienced yet another beautiful transformation in 2016 after attending my first out-of-hospital birth. The patience, autonomy, reverence, strength, and absolute fierceness I witnessed moved me so deeply, and I walked away knowing with complete certainty that this was where I wanted to be.
I began training to become a midwife through the traditional apprenticeship model at a busy birth center in Minneapolis, MN. One of the things I am most grateful for about apprenticing in a high-volume setting like a birth center was the opportunity to care for many families from all walks of life, and to attend many more births than was required for me to graduate. This experience taught me the ancient art of midwifery while allowing me to develop a very strong clinical skillset that I am able to lean on in the rare event that it is needed.
After sitting my board examination and obtaining my CPM and LM credentials, I opened my own home birth practice and practiced for two years before joining my dear friends and colleagues to create Marula Midwives. As one of two Black midwives practicing in the home birth setting in Minnesota, I see midwifery through a different lens and have found that my commitments to community activism and justice have really walked hand in hand with midwifery. I believe that our identities and lived experiences are deeply relevant to our health, and should be relevant to our healthcare as well. My deepest commitments are to serve my community with integrity, radical acceptance of the families I work with, and to make community midwifery care accessible to all.
Outside of midwifery, I am a mother, wife, artist, activist, and a generally quiet, observative human! I love Netflix documentaries, historical fiction novels, and 90’s music, and live in Minneapolis with my wife, our three daughters, and a ball python named Peter.