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Abigail Iovine

PATHWAYS CONTRIBUTOR

My name is Abby, I am a conservative traditional midwife, and medical freedom advocate, raised to love and honor God & family.

I’m also an 80’s baby!
We’re talking jazzercise, LA gear sneakers, and cassette tapes.
I had 7 digits in my landline.
(Too old for you to get that joke?)

I’ve been married for 18yrs and feel so lucky to be in this place with someone I love so much.
We have 10 awesome kids, 4 born in hospital, and 6 at home.
Yes they are all mine.
Yes I have given birth 10 times.

5 boys and 5 girls.
Don’t ask me which is “harder.”

My best answer depends on when you ask…
When my boys took all the doorknobs off of every door on the second floor?
Or when my daughters fight?
I won’t have a solid answer for you.

The midwifery bug bit me after the birth of my 4th child.

Pregnant with my 5th, I googled:
”How to NOT have a baby in the hospital.”

And here we are.

3 of my homebirths were with local midwives,
and babies 8, 9 & 10 were family births, or “unassisted.”

BABY #10 was born July 5th 2024-
Welcome baby Judah Emmanuel.

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