About Me
     I was born in Annapolis, Maryland, and lived there until moving to Oxford, Mississippi, in 1995. I attended Ole Miss and received my Bachelor of Arts in English in 1999. After graduating I spent about a year traveling and working. I was accepted in the Mississippi Teacher Corps, a program that paid me to earn a Masters Degree in Curriculum Instruction, while teaching for two years in a low income public school in Mississippi. During these two years I taught 9th and 11th grade social studies in Marshall County. My interest in childbirth began during my senior year of college when I became very close friends with a woman who was pregnant with her first child and chose to have a homebirth (Stevi Woolworth and her beautiful family may be seen on the picture page). At the time I had no idea that women still had homebirths. Although the idea was foreign, I had a lot of confidence in Stevi's judgment. Her birth was the most amazing experience I had ever encountered. After her second child and encouragement from other friends(thank you Taylor), I began to pursue the field more seriously. I am now attending births, assisting a traditional homebirth midwife(Norma Clark's webpage is under birthpartners on the link page), and working on my certifications. My "day job" is at a child abuse prevention center in Oxford, Mississippi. There I coordinate two programs. One is called the "To Love A Child" program which is a 16 week course for pregnant teens, with a mentor for a year, and a teen mom support group after the course is over and they have had their babies. The other is called "COPES" which is an 8 week course for teen offenders that teaches anger management, life skills, ang drug and alcohol awareness. On October 19, 2002, I was married to Brad Hayden. We live in Water Valley, Mississippi, with our cats Charlie and Maurice. Click on the pictures below to see Meg and Brad's wedding.