“I feel like I am coming back home again since my first baby was born here and my mother’s family is from Rembert, SC.”
Audrey Trepiccione, CPM, LM has been a home birth midwife for 25 years, has attended over 1200 births, apprenticed several students and is mother to 10 adult children, 7 of which were born at home. She has been a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) since 1998 with the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM), licensed in Virginia (2006) and South Carolina (2019). She has extensive experience in natural birth and breastfeeding. She has developed workshops for skills instruction and verification. Her passion is educating the next generation of midwives, the newborn/mother unit with specialties in the significance of bonding and human touch. She is a lactation counselor and recently became a Spinning Babies Aware Practitioner TM (2018)
Since her home state of North Carolina has refused to recognize this profession, she has worked the last 9 years as an assistant to a CNM and as a travel midwife to the neighboring states. She is a member of all 3 state midwifery organizations and has served on the board of NC Midwives Alliance, participating in and coordinating peer review and legislative efforts. Currently a member of Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA) and serving on the Palmetto Association of Licensed Midwives (PALM.org) legislative committee, to help us pass bills that will ensure the future of midwifery here in SC. She was elected as vice-president of PALM in 2022 and president in 2023.
“I am opening a practice here to meet the need for community births, train midwives and offer prenatal care to anyone who seeks more individualized, private and family centered care. About moving to South Carolina where she opened this practice in March of 2021 she states, “I feel like I am coming back home again since my first baby was born here when I lived in Myrtle Beach and my mother’s family is from Rembert, SC. We attend our family reunion there every year. It’s a great feeling to come back and be able to provide care to women and their families the way I would have wanted. It is my humble honor to continue to usher new life into the world.”
By the fall Oceanside Midwives will be in full swing accepting new clients, with students and apprentices on board and a unique collaborative spirit that is focused on bringing respectful woman centered care to the families of South Carolina.
Apprentices and Students
“We all helped each other carry the weight of motherhood in our family with a strong, beautiful, and wise matriarch to lead us.”
Alexandra Stewart is wife and mother of 3 children, a student of midwifery in the Midwife To Be program, midwives assistant and office manager for Oceanside.
“ I come from a large family. When I was a child we all still got together at my great-grandparent's house for Sunday lunch every week. Mamaw Maggie and Papaw Dwight had 5 children, 9 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and 6 great-greats by the time Mamaw passed away. So there were always kids running everywhere, babies being passed around to aunts and cousins, and a table full of women after lunch ready to share their stories and struggles with one another. We all helped each other carry the weight of motherhood in our family with a strong, beautiful, and wise matriarch to lead us.”
Here is her website:
http://www.sacredstartdoulase.wix.com/website-1