Victoria Dean

My journey to midwifery starts at the beginning, when I was born at home in New Mexico into the hands of a skilled midwife. I was lucky to attend a small alternative charter school, and from 7th to 12th grade the school mantra was "how will I fit into the world?" During my senior year of high school I was able to shadow a homebirth midwife in my community; I sat in on prenatal appointments and held newborn babies and I was welcomed into some births. After high school I took a year to get the prerequisites for midwifery school and off I went to Portland, Oregon to become a midwife! I graduated in 2017, and was trained by a mix of brilliant Certified Professional Midwives and Certified Nurse Midwives. I have been lucky to work in birth centers and homebirth, deep in the city, deep in the country, both coasts, and in the desert west. In 2021, I moved to Philadelphia to be a midwife with a friend and classmate from midwifery school and have called it home ever since. Going into my tenth year as a midwife and rounding the corner to 450 births, I feel grounded as ever in my craft and still smitten with this work that I have been called to do. When I'm not working I take care of my houseplants, I have reluctantly started to wear earplugs at concerts, I can still rally for a few karaoke nights a year, and I spend time with my beloved dog who has gotten sassy in her aging years.