Hidden Gems: Meet Patience Dominick of A Touch of Patience Birth

Today we’d like to introduce you to Patience Dominick.

Hi Patience, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been captivated by the beauty of birth. Even as a little girl, I thought my dream was to be a OBGYN or OB nurse but my purpose was more than that! I was told when I was younger I would tuck dolls under my shirt and pretend I was pregnant. I’ve always loved babies and the miracle of bringing life into the world.

Today, I have the incredible honor of living out that childhood dream through my business, A Touch of Patience Birth, where I serve women as a birth keeper. I offer support for home births, teach childbirth and breastfeeding classes, and walk alongside families through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. I also create handcrafted products for pregnancy and postpartum care—like nipple and belly butters, herbal sitz baths, healing sprays, postpartum teas, and now, I am working on my natural baby line with diaper creams, cradle cap therapy, and skin soothing mists. All of my products are handmade, organic and tested on my sensitive little girls and myself.

Another part of my work that I deeply value is placenta encapsulation. I believe the postpartum period is just as sacred as the birth itself, and placenta encapsulation can be a beautiful, natural way to help mothers heal and replenish after giving birth. It’s something I take great care in offering—honoring the body, the process, and the incredible journey each mother has just completed.

I am also about to embark on a great journey of being a surrogate for the first time. This has been quite a wild ride but I am so thankful for those who have helped me along the way. I am honored to be able to carry hope for a family in carrying their last little embryo!

My journey into birth work began years ago when I was in nursing school. I’ve always loved caring for people, but I started feeling uneasy about how birth was being taught—as something that needed to be managed, timed, and controlled. Every woman’s labor is unique, yet I saw how the system tried to fit everyone into the same box instead of honoring the natural rhythm of birth. That realization made me step back and ask myself what I truly believed about birth—and I knew I wanted to make a difference.

After realizing the hospital setting wasn’t where I was meant to be, I took a leap of faith. I trained as a doula in Santa Rosa, earned certifications in childbirth education, have acquired skills for breastfeeding support, and followed what I knew deep down was my calling—to support women and families through this sacred journey of bringing life into the world.

As I began working with more families, I saw just how powerful education and empowerment can be. It’s one thing to tell a woman she’s strong, but it’s another to help her truly believe it. I’ve always felt that birth isn’t a medical event—it’s a natural, normal process that our bodies were created for. Of course, medical care has its place when needed, but birth itself is designed to be a natural and sacred experience.

My own birth experiences have shaped me in so many ways. My first daughter was born in a birth center—so quickly that she arrived in the doorway! My second daughter was born peacefully at home with just me, my husband, and our kids present. That home birth was one of the most faith-filled experiences of my life. It deepened my trust in my body and in the process of birth itself. I have also attended over 120 births which have all been so unique and deepened me beliefs and trsut even more. I have been present in many ways such as in the hospital setting, home and unassisted-holding space/support.

Leaving the hospital to start my own practice wasn’t easy. Walking away from a steady paycheck to follow a calling takes faith, but I’ve been blessed every step of the way. Somehow, the right clients always come at the right time. I’m able to stay home with my children and homeschool them while running my business. It’s not always easy—there are days I’m balancing being on call for births, homeschooling, nursing a baby, and keeping up with messages from clients—but I wouldn’t trade it for anything.

There have been births where I’ve worn my baby in a carrier, or where my husband brought the baby to me so I could nurse between contractions. May family knows when I leave that I could be back in a few hours or a few days. My kids have grown up watching me live out my passion, and they’ve learned so much about birth, compassion, and dedication. They know when I’m on call, and they understand the importance of the work I do.

One of the hardest parts of my journey has been facing criticism and misunderstandings from others. I’ve had people in the community and other birthworkers talk bad about me or call me “dangerous” for supporting natural birth or having different beliefs and try to make things difficult for me me and that’s been painful, but I’ve learned to stay true to who I am and what I believe in. The families I’m meant to serve always find me, and they value the same things—trust, faith, and the beauty of birth as it was designed to be.

What keeps me going is simple: the women and their families. Watching women find their voice, trust their bodies, and step into their power is one of the most incredible things to witness. I enjoy when the mothers family and friends and those around her are doubting and she can prove them wrong and I just hope that it encourages others and we can be brought back to the natural ways of living. But just as powerful is seeing their husbands or partners rise up to support them—holding their hands, encouraging them, and being part of that sacred moment when their baby enters the world. I also love seeing the children as they become new siblings, their eyes lighting up as they meet the newest member of their family for the first time. Those moments are pure magic. Birth isn’t just about welcoming a baby; it’s about watching a family grow, transform, and fall even more in love.

Many of the mothers I work with come to me after experiencing trauma or disappointment in previous births. To witness them step into healing and have a redemptive, empowering birth is one of the greatest honors of my life.

This work has taught me to stand firm in my values, to have faith when things feel uncertain, and to keep leading with love. I’ve learned that when you follow your calling, doors open in ways you could never have planned.

And now, as I begin a new chapter as a first-time surrogate, I’m once again reminded of the sacredness of birth. This journey allows me to extend my love for the birthing process even further—to help another family experience the miracle of life. It’s such a beautiful reflection of everything I believe in: that birth is about giving, trusting, and serving with an open heart.

My hope is that every woman who crosses my path walks away knowing she is capable. That she was created to birth in her own way, that her voice matters, and that she deserves to be surrounded by love, support, and belief in her strength.

For me, A Touch of Patients Birth isn’t just a business—it’s my purpose. It’s the way I get to serve, love, and witness miracles every single day.

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About the Author

Patience Dominick is the founder of A Touch of Patients Birth, where she serves as a birth keeper, childbirth educator, placenta encapsulation specialist, and postpartum guide. A mother of five and proud bonus mom, Patience lives on a small family mini-farm where she homeschools her children and balances birth work with homestead life. She creates handcrafted organic, herbal products for pregnancy, postpartum, and baby care and is currently embarking on her journey as a first-time surrogate. A passionate home-birthing mom, Patience is devoted to empowering women to trust their bodies, their babies, and the sacred process of birth.

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Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
I mentioned in the first section but the struggles are for sure family life and balancing it all with 5 kids (15, 12, 9, 4-almost 5 year old and a 20 month old)
Also challenges I face are what others and what they say about me (those that don’t have the same views as me). I believe in birth, trust the natural process and help others so much so that people think I am being neglectful or DANGEROUS.

There can be challenges with navigating the hospital system and their protocols when they go against what the mom wants and believes. Family members can be pushy too when it comes to not agreeing with how the mother wants to birth her baby.

Another thing I just thought about is navigating losses! That is awful and not talked about very much. I have assisted through miscarriages, and stillbirth and it is so so hard!

I do provide free pregnancy and baby loss care packages that are curated from all the local services around me who have experiences losses as well and we are here as a community to love and support others as well.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
I mentioned a lot in the first section as well but I will elaborate:
I am a lot of things…
Birth keeper/Doula, childbirth educator, hypnobirthing educator, breastfeeding advocate, and a placenta specialist. I teach many classes such as baby wearing, cloth diapering, newborn care, postpartum preparedness. I am the creator of a pregnancy, breastfeeding, postpartum product line as well as launching a new line for baby products as well.
My products include: (homemade, organic and natural based)
-nipple balm
-breastfeeding care packages (nipple balm, reusable breast pads, milk tea, special mama sticker sticker)
-sitz bath herbs
-postpartum healing tea
-specialized pregnancy related tea
-perineum healing spray
-belly butters
-postpartum healing care packages (nipple balm, sitz bath herbs, postpartum tea, milk tea, breastpads, healing spray, chapstick and a special mama sticker)

My services are either virtual or in person as I have served worldwide (especially during covid) and can ship all my products wherever in the US 🙂

I am here to help everyone believe in birth, normalize birth and empowers others to truly trust birth and their innate abilities. I am someone who will be along side my clients every step of the way. I will inform you of your rights as a birthing women and help the family along way when they don’t believe in you or trust you.
I will go out of my way to help you have the birth you truly desire and deserve.

I also provide a lot of community gatherings: mom walks, mama outings, moms night, Christmas parties, mom groups, Homebirth gatherings as well. This has helped build a great community for likeminded families to come together and be comfortable who they are around other mamas/children

What was your favorite childhood memory?
My favorite childhood memory was living out in the country on a lake in MN with my siblings and running around with our animals (we had every animal you could think of) I am an animal lover to the MAX (reptiles- snakes, lizards… amphibians-frogs, furry creatures- guinea pigs, ferrets, breeding dogs and kittens. Me and my siblings would climb apple trees and play from sun up to sun down, ride snowmobiles, four wheelers, go to the lake, ride bikes. We were always adventuring!

Pricing:

• Birth packages range: $1800-4,000
• Classes range: $75-500
• Products range: $12-55
• Placenta encapsulation: $350
• Let me know if you have any questions

Contact Info:

• Website: atouchofpatiencebirth.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/atouchofpatience_birth/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AtouchOfPatience/
• Youtube: working on a YouTube channel
• Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@atouchofpatience_birth/

Image Credits
RK Honey Photography (Rian Khan)- Products, self image, and creating my products image, teaching class
Renee Fox Photography (Renee Fox)- family picture of myself, husband and kids
Sherry Pratt Photography (sherry Pratt)- Birth picture with placenta, birth picture in tub with baby & husband,
EmShoresPhotography- Birth photo assisting mama, dad and daughter there for her mom