Experience the beauty of natural birth with a Whole Heart
Blessing Birth
Midwifery Services
Midwife Jana Johnston, CPM, and her team provide holistic home birth midwifery care in the greater Kansas City area. Jana's goal is to provide every mother and father who comes to her with fearless spiritual and emotional presence and kind attentiveness to wholeheartedly nuture the mother and her family through pregnancy, childbirth, and fresh motherhood. If you are interested in having Jana as your midwife for your pregnancy and birth experience, please text message us at 913-214-8979 to schedule a consultation visit or submit your contact info below.
Quality Individualized & Holisitic Care
As a professoinal home birth midwife I am passionate to be able to give you time and attention to your personal needs from a whole body-mind-spirit perspective. I will take the time to explain your options and support your unique desires and choices for your pregnancy and birth. I provide natural, herbal, & spiritual healing advice for your particular discomforts or nutritional needs in pregnancy, labor, and after birth.
Prental Care
We provide monthly prenatal visits through the second trimester of pregnancy, bi-weekly visits from 30 – 36 weeks, and weekly visits from 36 weeks until birth, including one home visit at approximately 37 weeks.
Labor & Birth at Home
We remain on-call for you 24 hours a day until you call in labor. We provide labor support and guidance through birth as needed. We are prepared with birth emergency skills, equipment and medicines if necessary. After your delivery, we perform a complete newborn exam and stay 2-3 hours to help clean up and ensure mom and baby are stable and settled.
Postpartum Care
We return to your home at 24-48 hours after birth and 1 week after birth for postpartum home visits, which include newborn screenings and breastfeeding support. Postpartum wellness visits for mother and baby continue in office at 3 weeks and 6 weeks after birth.
Birth at Home with Love in Kansas City
Blessing Birth Midwifery was started in October 2020 by certified professional midwife, Jana Johnston. Jana wanted to bring the benefits of midwifery and home birth care especially to the Spanish-speaking community in Kansas City, and those who have limited access to health care services or resources. She also wanted to provide an alternative option for those seeking respectful care for their pregnancy, immigrants, or those who are neglected or poorly treated by local health systems.
Jana is passionate about serving families and supporting moms to experience giving birth in a way that fills her heart with love and joy as God intended motherhood to be. Pregnancy is a natural and normal condition designed to function well in healthy women. In most cases, anesthesia or surgery are not necessary to have a good, safe, and happy delivery, rather it is the opposite. Birth and motherhood should NOT be a root of fear, doubt, nor trauma, emotions that are so common among birthing women today. But the most educated and empowered women are discovering against popular thinking that natural birth with the care of a midwife is the best, safest, and happiest path.
Jana began attending births in 2011 as a doula and began teaching childbirth education classes and workshops for couples and doulas in 2014. She began her formal midwifery training in 2015, and did apprenticeships with a number of experienced Christian midwives including Mary Bernabe, Carol Gautschi, Diane Goslin, Heidi Yanello, Michelle Freund, and Amber Walla. She also spent time with midwives in Guatemala and Mexico, and in that way learned about Latin traditions of midwifery care of the childbearing woman. She finished her professional midwife certification in the US with NARM in September 2020. She co-founded the organization Global Education of the Midwife or "GEM" in 2021 to continue effectively educating doulas and midwives with a mission to make many many more midwives around the world to serve the great and growing need there is for respectful god-fearing loving informed and safe out-of-hosptial midwifery care everywhere around the world!