I am passionate about how you experience childbirth and I focus on supporting your individual needs, life values and aspirations.
Meet Your Private Midwife, Sal Whitson
Grand Rising, I’m Sal
A private Homebirth Midwife and Mentor with over 25 years of midwifery experience walking alongside women on their unique birthing journeys. Based on the beautiful Sunshine Coast, I live with my life partner Rob, and our two children on our permaculture farm. A place where nature, community, and the rhythms of life intertwine.
Supporting Your Sacred Journey.
Midwifery is more than my profession; it is my calling and life’s passion. Over the years, I have had the honour of witnessing the incredible strength and vulnerability of childbearing women. My role is to hold space, provide knowledge, and offer unwavering support.
Having worked in a range of settings across Australia and New Zealand, from hospital-based maternity units to remote communities, I bring a breadth of experience that informs my deeply personal and holistic approach to care. In 2019, I transitioned fully into private home birth midwifery, allowing me to cultivate the continuity of care I know is so essential in fostering confidence, trust, and empowerment throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
Beyond my work with birthing families, I also mentor new midwives, sharing the knowledge and wisdom I’ve gathered over decades in this field. I believe in the power of apprenticeship-style learning and hands-on experience, helping the next generation of midwives find their strength, confidence and vision in this sacred work.
A Life Rooted in Connection
My passion for midwifery is deeply personal. I have experienced continuity of midwifery care and homebirth as a woman, as well as birth within the hospital system. Walking both paths has shaped not only how I practice, but why I do this work.
I know what it feels like to be held in relationship through pregnancy and birth, and I understand how different models of care can feel from the inside. These lived experiences have given me a deep respect for women’s needs, choices, and inner knowing, and they inform the way I listen, wait, advocate, and walk alongside each woman and family I support.
When I’m not attending births or mentoring midwives, you’ll find me on our permaculture farm, immersed in nature or spending time with my family. I love living in rhythm with the cycles of the natural world, staying curious, and continually learning.
My passion for women, families, and community connection flows directly into my midwifery practice, shaping a wholistic approach that supports not only birth, but the wider journey of motherhood and family life.
Philosophy and Approach
My approach is shaped by both professional experience and lived experience as a woman who has walked this path herself.
I believe pregnancy, birth, and postpartum are profound rites of passage. Every woman carries innate wisdom within her, and my role as a midwife is to support her to connect with that knowing, make informed decisions, and feel safe, respected, and truly seen.
My care is deeply relationship-based. I take time to listen, to understand each family’s needs, values, and circumstances, and to create a space where trust can grow. From pregnancy care and birth preparation, through labour and birth, and into the postpartum season, I walk alongside you, holding space for the challenges, the joys, and the profound shifts that come with this transformative life experience.
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Qualifications
I have lived experience both professionally and personally across the midwifery continuity of care spectrum.
Registered nurse qualification 1993
Certificate in Midwifery Alice Springs Hospital 1998
Masters of Primary Maternity Care - Griffith University completed 2020
The Internal Pelvic Release Work Mentorship Program with Andrea Lopez & Jenny Blyth 2022
Credentialled Private Practice Midwife at Sunshine Coast University Hospital 2020 - 2021
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