Meg Novak, CPM, LM
Rochester Midwifery and Wellness
Serving families in Rochester, LaCrosse, Winona and The Driftless Region.
651.424.8059
Hello! I am a Certified Professional Midwife and Licensed Midwife living in Rochester and serving the surrounding region. I am passionate about providing family-centered care that puts you in charge of the transformative process of pregnancy and birth. I have been working with birthing families for 17 years, and have been a Certified Professional Midwife for 7 years.
I provide safe, personalized, evidenced-based care in the comfort of your own home. I enjoy using my knowledge as a clinical herbalist to help families deal with the normal discomforts of pregnancy and birth to find the plant remedies that are best for you. I have also received advanced training in Spinning Babies techniques and bring that knowledge and training into both prenatal care and the birth process.
I walk by the side of the families I serve throughout the entire pregnancy and birth process. Through building a personal relationship in the months leading up to childbirth, we create an atmosphere of trust that facilitates peaceful and empowered births.
I began my path to midwifery working in community based doula programs. I am one of the co-founders of the Minnesota Prison Doula Project, an organization that provides pre-natal and parenting education and birth accompaniment for women incarcerated in the state of Minnesota. I have also worked in public health, working with youth experiencing homeless on building healthy relationships and sexual health. I view midwifery as a cornerstone of my activism, and believe that midwifery can have a big impact on changing the world and strengthening families. I view birth as a transformative process that can be extremely empowering for families and new parents when they are supported and nurtured through that process.
Outside of providing care for birthing families I am also a clinical herbalist. I find great peace and joy in foraging for plants medicines out in the woods and crafting personalized medicines from them. I live with my two sons and enjoy traveling, improving my spanish, and dancing in my spare time.
I look forward to working with families in Southern Minnesota and the Driftless Region.