Kate Saumweber Hogan is a certified professional midwife, licensed in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and the owner and founder of Twin Cities Midwifery, LLC.
She is a graduate of Bastyr University’s Department of Midwifery, formerly Seattle Midwifery School, a rigorous academic program coupled with lengthy practicum requirements. Prior to becoming a midwife, she was an experienced birth doula, postpartum doula, and nanny.
Kate believes in the natural process of pregnancy and birth, the intuitive wisdom in each person’s body, and that every growing family deserves the support of midwifery care. She believes parents are the best decision-makers for their families and that her role is to provide options and help clients learn about their choices. She is honored to witness couples grow into families, children become siblings, and the power of birth. She believes part of her job is to protect the first precious moments that parents have to meet their baby, keeping the birth space calm and family focused. Spending time with families during the childbearing year is a passion of Kate’s. Her wish is that every childbearing person could know the power and wisdom of their body and to know their true options in birth and the times surrounding it.
During her midwifery training, Kate worked with three midwifery practices in the Twin Cities as an apprentice and completed a six-week clinical rotation at a birth site in Genova, Italy. She has been an active member of the Minnesota Council of Certified Professional Midwivessince 2006, sometimes serving as a board member. She is also one of three midwives on the Midwifery Advisory Council to the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice, serving in this position since 2012. In 2016, Kate became the president of the Minnesota Chapter of the National Association of Certified Professional Midwifery. Kate has been an active member of the Childbirth Collective since 2006 and is a member of the Rainbow Health Initiative. As a doula, she has been supporting families at births since 2004. She is also a notary public.
Kate is the 2010 recipient of the Jo Anne Myers-Ciecko Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Leadership. Twin Cities Midwifery and Kate Saumweber Hogan were awarded honorable mention in the 2011 “Best of the Twin Cities Birth & Baby” Awards and have been an award nominee in 2013, 2014, and 2017. Kate was recognized by Blooma as a Care Provider of Distinction for 2014, 2015, and 2016, all three years Blooma gave these awards.
Kate graduated magna cum laude from Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York with a bachelor’s degree in music and minors in women’s studies and integrative health studies.
She lives in South Minneapolis with her husband and two children.
Twin Cities Midwifery, LLC
Kate Hogan, CPM, LM
Mary Stemper, CPM, LM
Kelsi Hines, CPM, LM
What areas do you serve?: Minneapolis and St Paul Metro area, including 60 minute radius from Minneapolis
Who is your ideal client?: My ideal client is a pregnant person with a healthy/low risk pregnancy who desires home birth in the metro area.
What do you want people to know about you/your practice?: Twin Cities Midwifery is unique. When you begin care with one of our midwives, you choose the care provider you will see for your full course of care – from prenatal to postpartum. In many other practices, you see different midwives and birth with whoever happens to be on call. We so strongly value continuity of care that the midwife you choose for your care will be on this journey with you, every step of the way. We also value self-care for our midwives and sustainability for our practice. We always have a back-up midwife in place so if for any unforeseen reason your midwife is unavailable, you will still be in excellent hands.
Every homebirth team includes at least two midwives. Both are trained and certified in neonatal resuscitation. Team members are determined based on client preference, due time, and location. The second midwife joins the family at their 36-week home visit so they can meet and confirm that they feel like a good fit for the team.
What do you want people to know about home birth?: Home birth is a safe and excellent option for families experiencing a healthy, low risk pregnancy. The care you can get from our practice is often superior to care through other routes, because we have hour long visits, we value the relationship we build togetehr on this journey, and we limit the number of families we serve at one time so that each family we are working with gets a high level of attention and care. We also really value informed consent and shared decision making. We offer all routine labs and ultrasounds and newborn procedures, but we go in depth on the pros/cons/alternatives and encourage each client to make an individualized decision about what they would like their care to include (meaning you can have all the tests and procedures, and you can also decline almost all of them, it it is up to the client!).
If you had a week off call + unlimited funds, what would you do?: I would either go to a spa with my husband (while my kids would get to have a blast at their grandparent's house), or take the whole family on a vacation so that we could just connect and be together. It could be a cabin in the woods, a campsite near a shore, or maybe Italy if we weren't too concerned about the jet lag....usually I'd want more than a week for that adventure! Disney World might be another option, especially since there would be unlimited funds!
What do you do in your free time?: Spend time with my amazing family. My husband Ryan and I have a daughter born in 2012, and sons born in 2015 and 2018! We love playing games, reading books, doing puzzles, exploring nature, going on bike rides, and just being together.
Is there a question you wish I'd asked? Ask and answer it here!: Maybe how long I've been a midwife?
I found out about homebirth midwives in 2004 and immediately knew that is what I was born to do. I became a doula that summer so that I could start attending births and entering the birth community. I finished up my undergrad degree in 2006, and then began life as a full time midwifery student at Seattle Midwifery School, part of Bastyr University. I graduated in 2010. That year I also became a Certified Professional Midwife, Licensed Midwife, and opened Twin Cities Midwifery! I feel so lucky to have found this career, and I can't imagine doing anything else!
How many clients do you take per month? : I usually cap it at 4 clients a month, with 8 weeks off call a year (vacations planned 9 months in advance!).