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Meet Our Team -
Hailey, Jenna and Gengï

In your appointments,
you will often be meeting with more than one of us at the same time.
This makes it possible for you to get to know each of us as more
than a familiar face;
It also creates the opportunity
to reap the benefits of
continuity of care,
and rounds out your experience
with special insights
from our unique perspectives.

Hailey Santelli
Assistant Midwife &
Advanced Student

Hi Sweet Families! My name is Hailey. I am a birth assistant and advanced student here at Family Midwifery. I have been with the practice for three years and am in my second year of a degree program at the Midwives College of Utah. When I finish school, I will graduate as a Certified Professional Midwife.

I am honored by the invitation into your birth space and excited to build connections with you and your family over the next year.

  • With the incredible support, patience, and love of my husband, Wes, we are raising our three young children here in the northeast corner of Connecticut. Our quiet community allows for a simple life of homeschooling, tending to our chickens, and creating a plethora of sourdough bread. It’s a place where we fill not only our plates, but our hearts.

  • After working a short stint as a CNA in a more traditional hospital setting, I began training as a doula and childbirth educator. I instantly knew supporting families during the birth of their children was where my heart needed to be. I am driven by the importance of the emotional aspect of birth and the growth often discovered on the other side of the childbirth experience.

Jenna Bourgeois
Certified Nurse Midwife
Nurse Practitioner
Certified Breastfeeding Counselor

Hi, I’m Jenna.  I am a Certified Nurse Midwife, Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, Certified Breastfeeding Counselor and former experienced Certified Wholistic Doula.  I graduated with honors from the midwifery program at the Yale School of Nursing where I received my Master of Science in Nursing with a Concentration in Global Health.

I feel intense gratitude to be able to provide midwifery care in the home setting and specifically to be a part of the Family Midwifery Team.

  • My midwifery education is ever deepening as I apply my skills in the home setting and work side by side with the team at Family Midwifery.  Prior to school, I lived in Brooklyn where I served the NYC area for the better part of a decade as a wholistic doula, childbirth educator, lactation consultant, instructor of infant CPR, and facilitator of a new parent support group.  Feeling drawn to midwifery, I also attended a 3 month Introduction to Midwifery program in Bali.  

    I first came to Family Midwifery as a pregnant mama, looking for a homebirth midwife for my second pregnancy, and was blown away by the quality and wholistic nature of the care.  I have 3 beautiful young children (all of whom were born at home) and a wonderful and supportive husband. We recently moved from New Haven to Wallingford, and although we miss the joys of city-living, we are now delighting in our our new home, cooking more, living close to family, and surrounded by trees and beauty. 

  • My interest in midwifery began with feeling powerfully drawn towards the major transitional moments of birth and death, when the veil is at its thinnest.  Upon learning midwifery indeed existed in the modern day, I felt an immediate magnetic pull. As an initial reality check to my idealistic notion, I became a wholistic doula attending births in both the home setting as well as the hospital. I quickly learned what a great need there was to walk with women through the vulnerable and powerful process of pregnancy and childbirth and found the process to be deeply meaningful.  Like many, I was shocked by the statistical outcomes in America, before even learning about the even more horrific outcomes for BIPOC folks, and I am honored to be working in this sacred and urgently needed vocation.

Gengï G. Proteau
Certified Professional Midwife & Owner

Hi, I’m Gengï. I am the owner of Family Midwifery, which I opened in 2016. I gained my hands-on clinical experience through working with several very brave and experienced homebirth midwives in Connecticut.
I have attended over 800 births in my 20plus years of doing birth work. Being a mother-of-five has rounded out my knowledge in helping families prepare for and traverse childbirth, and in guiding mothers and fathers on their journey into parenthood.

I am humbled to be part a family’s story through this very precious and tender time.

  • I live in Deep River, Connecticut, and enjoy hiking, art of all kinds (artisan, textile, culinary, visual, performance, music), creating, singing and gardening. I love learning about different cultures and various walks of life, and am particularly keen on understanding the role of faith and spirituality in personal health and family life. I am very familiar with many non-medical health modalities, and have incorporated them into my personal health practices, the raising of my own family, and the care I give as a midwife.

  • On the heels of my first homebirth, and following a series of spiritual experiences, I felt called to become a midwife, and started on the path to serving families during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. By 2000, I was working as a childbirth educator and labor doula, and became a midwifery apprentice in 2004. I chose the route of apprenticeship and the speciality of homebirth in order to have a foundational knowledge of the natural design of the body for pregnancy, birth, postpartum healing and nourishing a baby; and to become well acquainted with what is within the broad and individualized realm of normal.