Violet Wright
CPM, LM
About Me
Name: Violet Wright
Favorite Authors: C. S. Lewis, Francine Rivers, Brad Meltzer, Vince Flynn, and Lee Child
Favorite TV Shows: BBC’s Sherlock, Call the Midwife, Downton Abbey, Psych, and the occasional K-drama
Hobbies: Reading, running, spending time with friends and family, traveling, hot air ballooning, and volunteering.
Favorite Foods: I love home cooking and being adventurous in my recipe choices. That being said, I also like really homey foods like chicken potpie, a great alfredo or Swedish meatballs.
Places I’ve Been: Haiti, Mexico, Philippines, China, Cambodia, Belize, Singapore, Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and several states and provinces in the US and Canada.
Background
My name is Violet Wright, and I am a Certified Professional Midwife, having passed the North American Registry of Midwives board exam in November of 2014. I am also a Licensed Midwife in the state of Minnesota and hold current certification in Adult and Infant CPR, Neonatal Resuscitation, and as an Emergency Medical Technician.
My passion for healthcare, volunteer work, and investing in communities started in childhood. I spent my earliest years in the home of my struggling biological mother who had an inability to care for herself or others. This ultimately landed my brothers and me in foster care where I was surprised by and in awe of the safety and stability that I found in our foster home. My foster parents later became my adoptive parents, and they not only loved and cared for us, but also poured into their community through volunteer work with the church and local fire department. I became determined to live out the example they set and became interested in healthcare as a future career.
In high school, I completed my Emergency Medical Technician training and Associates Degree through a local community college. After graduating I began looking for opportunities to travel, volunteer, and pursue something in medicine. My pastor’s wife suggested a Christian birth center in the Philippines that offered all of those things. It was there that my midwifery journey began, and that I fell in love with caring for women and their families.
My passion for healthcare, volunteer work, and investing in communities started in childhood.
Education & Experience
In 2012 I started my midwifery training in the Philippines, volunteering in the clinic and birth center at roughly 30 clinical hours a week. At the same time, I was also working through the academic classes necessary for licensing in the United States.
By the time I finished my academic and clinical training, I had caught 88 babies and been part of nearly 200 births. I went back to the States and passed my board exam in November of 2014. Then I began studying at Hamline University, where I graduated with a Bachelor of Public Health in 2018.
The following year I moved back to the Philippines to volunteer in the clinic once again, this time not as a student but as a clinical preceptor, supervisor, and academic teacher. I also enrolled at Liberty University and worked through their master’s program in Public Health while I was there.
Through practicing midwifery while teaching midwives and patients, I began to see how well Public Health and midwifery worked together. In 2019 I graduated and left the Philippines having been a primary midwife at about 130 births and participating in over 300 births in other capacities.
My time there also equipped me with a love for educating and empowering women through pregnancy, to work towards the best possible outcome together. I am very excited to be serving women and families in and around the Twin Cities!
New Birth Midwifery
Having trained at the same birth center as Jenny, with connections that go back many years, New Birth was one of my first US based midwifery connections. I did a few births with Sarah and Jenny in 2019 and 2020 and was very impressed by both their love for birth and the way they ran their practice. I reached out to them and started working with New Birth in 2020.
I worked closely with Jenny and Sarah as we shaped a team practice. In 2022 my husband and I found out we were expecting. Naturally I knew we would want some time with our new son, and I began a maternity leave in November of 2022. After a much longer than anticipated leave due our son’s medical complications I’m excited to be back serving families part time.
Personal Life
In 2021 I married the love of my life Elisha Wright. Though we have known each other since the age of 10 through church and ministry it wasn’t until our late 20’s that we started dating and got married in the same year!
In November of 2022 the Lord blessed us with a sweet baby boy named Atticus. He was born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome which meant both of us took big steps back from our jobs to be very full-time parents to our sweet son. It has been a huge learning curve in parenting and we are so grateful now to have him home and stable enough that we are both slowly returning to a new normal at work.
We are blessed with lots of local family and can often be found hanging with one of my 20 siblings-yes you read that right!