AMY KELLY

***Sadly for Pomegranate, Amy has moved to Vancouver Island.

Work is Love Made Visible.
—Khalil Gilbran

My passions in life are women’s health and community
activism. I feel so lucky to be a part of a profession
where I can live these passions on a daily basis.

Being a midwife is the fruition of a plan rooted in my
childhood. As the eldest of five girls growing up I was privileged to see many babies come into my family. My mother had a midwife with the birth of my middle sister. Her visits to our house and my sister’s homebirth left me with the impressions that birth was a wonderful, awe inspiring event in a family’s life and that women are powerful.

As an adult I have had many interests. I lived in Morocco and worked as an au pair.  I worked with survivors at the McGill Sexual Assault Crisis Centre. I ran the front of house of a theatre company. I volunteered for the SPCA.  I was a women’s centre coordinator. However my heart always came back to the idea of working with expectant women and their families to facilitate an empowering, respectful and dignified experience in pregnancy, labour, birth and the immediate postpartum. This conviction led me to study at Laurentian University where I received a Bachelor of Health Sciences in Midwifery. After completing this program I had been living in eastern Canada for over 7 years and knew I had to come home to my family, my mountains and the beauty of the west coast.

Here I am happy to be a midwife at Pomegranate. I am privileged to have witnessed this practice become an ever increasing touchstone of the Vancouver birth community since its inception.  I am proud to be a part of a practice that is so committed to midwifery, that is community-based and that is working toward being accessible to all families.

A balance struck between realizing my passions in midwifery and my other interests (which now include: snowboarding, scuba diving, kayaking, my new husband) is a good life.