

Brittany Sharpe McCollum, CCE(BWI), CD(DONA), is owner of
Blossoming Bellies Wholistic Birth Services, a Philadelphia based business
providing evidence based information, tools, and resources to expectant parents
and birth professionals since 2006. Brittany
graduated cum laude from Temple University with a degree in Liberal Arts in
2005 and began her work in childbirth related studies soon after. She is a
certified childbirth educator with Birth Works International, a birth doula
certified with DONA with additional training from Birth Arts International, and
is a certified breastfeeding counselor with Nursing Mothers Alliance. Brittany’s
work in the childbirth field combines research based information with movement
and hands-on practice to create workshops and trainings that are dynamic,
energizing, and full of usable tools and techniques for supporting the
physiologic birth process. Her workshops
for expectant parents have been rated Top Childbirth Class in Philly by CBS
Philly and Best Birth Class several years in a row by Philadelphia Family
Magazine. She furthers her impact
through providing doula support for expectant families in the greater
Philadelphia area. Since 2012, the focus of Brittany’s work has centered
greatly around pelvic biomechanics, fetal descent, rotation, and positioning,
and its many variations, and the integration of pelvic dynamics into an
efficient labor process. Brittany
developed the “Creating Space” training sessions for clinical and non-clinical providers,
which she facilitates workshops ranging from one to seven hours for midwives,
nurses obstetricians, doulas, childbirth educators, massage therapists, and
chiropractors. She has taught the sessions
privately for obstetrical and midwifery practices and L&D nurses and student
midwives as well as at conferences and in groups open to the general birth
community. She has facilitated trainings
for Einstein Healthcare Network, Virtua Health System, Cherry Hill OB/GYN and
Midwifery, Lifecycle Woman Care, The Birth Center in DE, University of
Pennsylvania’s Nurse-Midwifery Program, and the midwives of the Lehigh Valley
Health Network. She is a yearly guest
facilitator on anatomy, pelvic dynamics, and labor progress for the Maternity
Care Coalition Community Doula Training and is the creator and facilitator of
the reproductive health and pelvic anatomy training of the International
Childbirth Education Association’s training for birth professionals. Brittany is also the co-creator of a Prenatal
Yoga Teaching Training with East Eagle Yoga. In addition to her work within her
own clinical and non-clinical birth support community, Brittany has also presented
at international conferences. She has
facilitated workshops on pelvic dynamics and fetal positioning at the Birth
Works International Conference in 2016, the International Chiropractic
Pediatric Association Summit in 2018, and the Evidence Based Birth Conference
in 2019 in Kentucky.
She is a frequent contributor to panel discussions and
events for the larger community.
Brittany has sat alongside obstetricians, midwives, and nurses at the
Birth Works “Ask the Experts” event. She
was also a panelist at the screening of “Miriam: Home Delivery” and at the
National Liberty Museum’s forum on “Labor and Birth Rights in Modern Medicine,”
where she discussed reproductive justice and options for care alongside a
certified nurse midwife and a certified professional midwife. Brittany also is
a frequent organizer of local birth related events open to the greater
community. In addition to film
screenings and birth worker gatherings, she has worked to bring events to the Philadelphia
area that are led by perinatal professionals from other cities, including
“Trauma-Informed Care: How To Support Survivors in the Perinatal Period” with
Boston based organization, Resilient Birth and a workshop, book signing, and
community brunch with Ina May Gaskin.
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