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Joi Brock, LM, CPM
Educational History- Lamar University, Beaumont, TX, Nursing, 1973
- Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, Health Care, 1974
- Florida Jr. College, Jacksonville, FL, Nursing, 1975-1976
- Blinn Jr. College, Bryan, TX, Health Care, 1989
- Austin School of Massage, Austin, TX, 1998-1999
- Doulas of North American Training, Austin, TX, 1999
- Midwifery Residency Training, San Antonio, TX, 2003-2006
- Primary Midwife, San Antonio, TX, 2005
- North American Registry of Midwives Skill Test, 2005
- North American Registry of Midwives Written Exam, 2006
- National College of Midwifery, 2008
Professional Positions- Teacher Substitute – North Carolina and Texas
- Board Member, San Antonio Birth Doulas
- Childbirth Educator, San Antonio Birth Doulas
- Massage Therapy Instructor, Austin and San Antonio, TX
- Educator, Babies R Us, San Antonio, TX
- Childbirth Educator, Ft. Sam Military Family Advocacy Program
- Mom-2-Mom, Regional Director and Founder, San Antonio, TX
- Association of Texas Midwives Board, Region 6
- San Antonio Area Midwives Association, President
- Midwifery College of Utah, Student Preceptor
- North American Registry of Midwives Preceptor/Teacher
- Ad Hoc Rules Committee for Texas Midwifery Board
- Breastfeeding Educator, Destination Maternity
- Board Member, South Texas Women’s Birth and Health Collaborative
Community Service- Volunteer - Church Ministry: Music, Children’s Ministry, Education
- Volunteer - Steep Hollow Church Outreach, Bryan, TX
- Vacation Bible School Coordinator, Bryan, TX
- PTA President and Board Member, Bryan, TX
- Children’s Choir Director, Texas, Mississippi, North Carolina
- Volunteer with Texas schools
- Board Member, Reagan Spirit Club, San Antonio, TX
- Volunteer with Red Cross Disaster Relief Services
- Medical Mission, Dominican Republic, Hospital Taiwan, Asua
- Community Education: Parent Training Seminars, Breastfeeding Education, Baby Basics, Infant Massage
Professional Affiliations- Doulas of North America (DONA)
- National Association of Childbearing Centers (NACC)
- Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA)
- North American Registry of Midwives (NARM)
- Waterbirth International
- International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN)
- La Leche League International (LLL)
- Citizens for Midwifery (CfM)
- Texans for Midwifery (TfM)
- San Antonio Area Midwives Association (SAAMA)
- Texas Midwives Group
Professional Development- American Red Cross CPR and First Aid
- Bodywork for the Childbearing Years
- Infant Massage
- Reflexology
- American Heart Association Neonatal Pulmonary Resuscitation
- Affidavit of Paternity Training, Texas
- Birth Doula Training (DONA), Instructor
- How to Open A Birth Center (NACC), Florida
- Attachment Parenting Round Table, Professional Participant
- Newborn Screen Procedure Training
- Should You Have a C-Section
- Creating A Successful Midwifery Practice
- Optimal Fetal Positioning
- American Red Cross Association, Disaster Volunteer Orientation
- American Red Cross Association, Introduction to Disaster Services
- American Red Cross Association, Fulfilling Our Mission
- Advanced Skills Hands-On Seminar, Instructor, Seattle, Washington
- Breeches and Twins Round Table
- Medications for Midwives
- Medical Consent Training
- Thyroid Disease in Women
- Caring for the Newborn
- Intrapartum Sterile Speculum Examination for Registered Nurses
- Newborn Screening for Midwives
- Mental Health Screening for Physicians
- Cultural Competence for Midwives
Professional Conferences- The Gathering, ACNM and ATM, Wimberley, TX
- ATM, Association of Texas Midwives Annual Conference
- The Gathering, ACNM and ATM, Speaker, Camp Buckner, Texas
- Seattle Midwife Educational Workshop, Instructor
- The Gathering, ACNM and ATM, South Padre Island, Texas
Personal
- Married since 1974 to husband Bob
- Children: Angela (29), Daniel (26), Rebecca (21)
- 2 dogs – Harvey (Jack Russell) and “Bo” (Pug)
Memberships
- Steep Hollow Baptist Church, TX
- Pinelake Baptist Church, MS
- First Baptist Church College Station, TX
- Village Drive Baptist Church, NC
- Great Hills Baptist Church, TX
- Shearer Hills Baptist Church, TX
- Community Bible Church
Personal Development
Joi's personal enrichment through the authors below began in 1978.
- Zig Ziglar: Books, Videos, Conferences
- Normal Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”
- Dale Carengie “How to Win Friends and Influence People”
- Jim Rohn: Books, Videos, Taped Conferences
- Og Mandino: Complete Library
- Denis Waitley: Books, Videos, Taped Conferences
- Earl Nightingale “The Greatest Secret”
- Napoleon Hill “Think and Grow Rich”
- Michael Gerber “The E-Myth”
- Stephen Covey “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
- Robert Kiyosaki “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”
- Beth Moore Conference, 2006
- Women of Faith National Conference, 2007
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A note from Joi
I'm on the "seasoned" side of life – with 32 years of marriage to the same sweet guy, 3 grown children and working on the second half of my first century of life! With nurturing being a way of life while raising my children, it became my natural transition to care for women as they traveled their path of bringing their own children into the world.
I am a Licensed Midwife, Licensed Massage Therapist with certification in Prenatal Massage and a Certified Birth Doula. My experience in nursing school led me to know I always wanted to work with women in their childbearing years. That desire encouraged me to develop ways to serve women by offering services that would support her experience in pregnancy and birth. In a world that believes birth is a medical condition, it is important to remember that birth is a normal function of a woman’s body. The missing link is to return honor, respect and empowerment back to where it has always belonged – to the mother!
Remember – your baby, your body, your birth! It is always such a miracle to watch as a woman and her family work together to bring a new life into the world. The love, commitment and amazing power can be felt at each birth. Whether it is a mom birthing her first baby or her 11th baby, whether this baby is coming alone or with a sibling (multiples), whether entering the world head first or backing in (breech), each birth is unique and a wonder to behold! Let’s get together.
I would love to visit with you as you share your dreams of your birth. Call me or email for a no obligation visit!
Joi
Career Bio
Joi Brock is known throughout the community as an expert in the field of natural birth, water birth, twin birth and the list goes on. She is also known for her upbeat personality and her contagiously positive outlook on life. She has a rare quality of making people feel like one of her best friends almost instantly. After meeting her, everyone understands that her parents named her appropriately.
Those that know and love her affectionately call her "Joi to the Birth World!" Joi's belief in a family’s right to informed choice directs her work as an advocate for education and freedom in birth. Her motto of “Your baby! Your body! Your birth!”, is exemplified in her care of women. Joi is the mother of three adult children, born in the 1970’s and 1980’s in a time of growing medical interventions. Even while giving birth in a hospital setting, she knew that babies just “needed to be born”; consequently, Joi and her husband were at home with their newborns when they were just hours old. Joi's experiences in her personal births make her a multidimensional midwife that is adamant about doing her best to make each family's quest for a natural birth a reality.
Joi is a licensed massage therapist and applied her broad base of knowledge about the way the human body works when she became a labor support expert, also known as a birth doula. She was known as the " doula to have" in the Austin and San Antonio areas before she began her formal training to be a midwife.During Joi's training to become a midwife she carried over her extensive knowledge from massage therapy, doula experience and life experience and was a natural at encouraging birthing mothers in physical, emotional and spiritual ways that made it possible for them to birth successfully at home.
Years ago Joi began her education in the field of nursing and public health. She was educated in many aspects of caring for women during their childbearing years, which eventually led her to her destination of midwifery. During this time, she assisted over 250 families and women in hospital based births and over 150 families in out-of-hospital births, to include breeches and multiples. Joi’s passion for education expands to the midwifery community, where “passing on the knowledge” is shown in the way she teaches student midwives. Although most of her time is spent in the support and education of women in birth, Midwife Joi loves spending time with her husband of 34 years, her adult children and her parents. In her quiet time she enjoys music, sewing, reading and watching sunsets.
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