Hello! My name is Jennifer Frye and I am a formally trained Lancaster County based Homebirth Midwife.

My goal is to provide you with the opportunity to have an autonomous birth experience, provide you with comprehensive, individualized perinatal care and equip you with the tools & resources to make empowered, informed decisions regarding your care based on reliable, holistic, evidence-based facts.

Drawing on almost 2 decades of experience in care giving and activism, I'm excited to bring my passion for life, birth, and advocacy to the birth community.

I grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, however my family is native to the Southern Adirondack region of New York State. I returned to New York in the mid 90's and graduated from the Nursing Program at SUNY Albany/SAEC in 1996. After college, I moved to North Carolina to begin my nursing career. From the late 90’s until 2010, my focus was primarily in Pediatric & Adolescent medicine. In early 2010, I made the decision to hang up my nurse’s cap, returning to the southwestern United States and enjoyed a year and a half of guide work in Wilderness Therapy.

In late 2011, I relocated from the southwest to Massachusetts, settling in beautiful, eclectic Salem on the north shore of Boston. Anxious to explore my options and expand my career, I began researching birth work at the urging of a friend as well as herbal medicine. A proponent of natural healing, trust in the human body, & a desire to continue advocating for human rights, I found myself enthusiastically diving into this new world, ultimately training as a labor doula through ToLabor. Meeting so many strong, amazing birthing people and families, hearing their stories, and getting to witness the humbling experience that is birth has only strengthened my devotion to the birth community. Very early on in my doula career, I knew without a doubt that I had found my calling- and that I wanted to be able to provide families with more autonomous, family-led, individualized, evidence-based care than what I was seeing within the mainstream perinatal care system and I made the decision to pursue midwifery. From my first class with midwife Beth Moonstone at WomanCraft in Amherst, MA in the summer of 2014, I knew I had made the right choice.

 In the early days of my birth work path, I also became involved in the postpartum support practice of Placenta Encapsulation and pursued formal training through Full Circle Placenta Encapsulation in 2014.  In 2017, I completed the didactic portion of my midwifery education through WomanCraft. On January 1, 2018, moments after midnight, I attended my first birth as an apprenticing student midwife with Kim Bradlee, CPM. Later in 2018, I also completed an Herbalist Certification Course through Herbal Academy in Bedford, MA, providing me with the tools to make and safely recommend herbal healing to my friends, family, and clients.

While balancing both encapsulation services and doula clients, I was fortunate enough to attend births as an apprentice midwife alongside multiple midwives in the greater Boston region of Massachusetts from 2018-2019. In early 2019, I was given the opportunity to relocate from our home of 8 years in Salem to Maryland and spend until spring 2020 completing my primary apprenticeship under the guidance of Karen Webster, CPM. I quickly fell in love with this region and the choice to relocate to south central Pennsylvania/ western Lancaster county to open my own practice was an easy one, once I completed my requirements to sit for my CPM through NARM in early 2020. Since 2013, I have attended approximately 300 births, with over 150 of them since opening True North Midwifery in April 2020.

I am NRP & BLS certified. I strive to keep up with the recommended continuing education credits despite choosing to remain a DEM and I routinely participate in workshops to refresh birth emergency, breech, and common complications skills. I also participate in routine peer review with other local out of hospital midwives in the south central PA region in order to maintain a uniform standard of care, promote practice transparency, and foster our professional and personal relationships.

Access to out of hospital midwifery care is a passion of mine. I am committed to advocating for access to skilled care with trained providers, along with smart, affordable, and inclusive ways to achieve this nationwide for all communities without unfair regulation/licensure, leading to restricted access to midwifery care with the provider of choice for all families who desire it.

In my down time, you can find me with my nose in a book or enjoying the outdoors. I look forward to getting to know your family and your babies!