About

A career built at the bedside, in every setting birth actually happens.

PhD, RN, PHN, NP, CNM, FACNM. Doula, traditional midwife, registered nurse, public health nurse, women's health nurse practitioner, certified nurse-midwife, and Fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives. Has attended thousands of births, and still practices midwifery today. Scholarship and research have focused on interprofessional collaboration in perinatal care, and factors which promote normal birth, including hydrotherapy and the midwifery model of care.

Jenna Shaw-Battista, Certified Nurse-Midwife and PhD

01 — Background & Credentials

Depth, not theory.

Credentials alone can't convey a career spent actually present at birth, in multiple roles and in every setting it happens, home, hospital, birth center, and everything in between, across multiple countries and cultures. That unusual perspective informs every course and consultation here, not a single study, institutional protocol, or professional organization.

02 — Philosophy of Care

The person in front of me, not the protocol.

Good care means respectful, individualized education and informed choice, since there is no single "correct" way to give birth. Childbirth education and support should meet people wherever they are, and provide the full range of safe and effective options available. That's the belief every course and consultation here is built around.

03 — Why This Platform Exists

One practice can only reach so many families.

Years of direct, one-on-one midwifery practice made the limit obvious: one health care provider can only reach a limited number of families at a time. In academia, that reach was extended through research and teaching with international recognition. This platform is an intentional effort to extend it even further, directly to parents through evidence-based education, and by training the doulas, nurses, midwives, and other birth workers who carry that same standard of care forward into their own work.

04 — Experienced Clinical & Legal Consultant

Years in practice and academia, brought to your case.

That same depth of experience informs work with families, providers, and attorneys seeking second opinions or expert witnesses.

"Dr. Shaw-Battista was the most compelling expert witness I've put on the stand in my career, period."

— Attorney representing a nurse-midwife in a licensing hearing

Behind the Practice

The operations behind the care.

Jeff Novick has spent decades working across multiple community health settings, building the technology, billing, and operational systems that let clinical teams actually do their work, rather than fight their own infrastructure. That background powers Practice Systems & IT Services, now available directly to doulas and small midwifery practices.

He's also Jenna's husband of more than 20 years. This is a genuine shared project: her depth and breadth of knowledge combined with decades at the bedside, and his operational backbone built the same way, in the settings where this work actually happens.

Jeff has spent years teaching classes and full-day seminars on male involvement and positive sexuality, and decades building technology, billing, and operational systems for community health nonprofits. He also wrote his Master's thesis in a human sexuality graduate program, focused on how reproductive health education shapes men's attitudes toward women. He's personally parented six newborns, hands-on experience he's now bringing directly into the practice's newborn-prep content for dads and partners.