I’m Kathy Peacock. The first birth I attended was a set of twins when I was a volunteer with Peace Corps in West Africa.  I attended a couple more births, observing the local nurse midwives at the hospital where I worked.  Those births stuck with me.  I then started my own birth work journey as a student doula during nursing school at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. I attended many births as a doula including a couple home births and fell in love with it.

I worked as an ICU nurse for a couple years, then, at my first prenatal visit with my midwife, she learned I was a nurse and a doula and she said “Why not go back to school to become a midwife? We need more midwives!” The seed was planted and after a somewhat complicated pregnancy with surgery for a herniated disc in my back and getting the best care and a smooth home birth, I decided women deserve great care and I could be the one to provide it.

I attended the Nurse-Midwife/Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner program at Georgetown University and did my last two rotations catching babies with a home birth practice. I graduated in 2015 then worked as a birth assistant for a local home birth midwife for a year before joining another home birth practice as a full scope midwife. I worked with that practice for 5 years and attended over 200 births and provided care to more than 500 families. The pandemic threw a wrench in my plans and I decided to step away from midwifery to home school my kids for a couple years.

In 2022, I eased my way back into midwifery as an adjunct professor teaching the skills of midwifery at Georgetown University. I then took a clinic position working with underserved populations providing prenatal care, gyn care and family planning. But I missed home birth!

I started Peacock Midwifery Services because I like working in a smaller home birth practice where I can give high quality, evidence-based individualized care to all my clients and their families.   

I’ve lived in Takoma Park and more recently Silver Spring since 2006. Both my kids were born at home with midwives, my first in 2011 and my second in 2013. I co-parent with my ex-partner and live with my cats, Missy, Moxy and Maisy.