This past week I was blessed in interviewing Selia Busey, owner and operator at Bliss Births Midwifery Services LLC. in El Paso, Texas. I met Selia through another subject matter expert (SME) interview I conducted this past summer of Rachel Curtis, a doula here in El Paso. When I first met Selia I was immediately drawn to her, she is intelligent, very down to earth and confident. I just couldn’t wait to interview her on her homebirth midwifery business and its successful growth.

Selia is a home-birth midwife, she owns a private practice. She is the only employee, although she does take on apprentices and sometimes hires independent contractors for certain services.  Selia comes from a strong family where her mother was a small business owner of a gymnastics gym when she was growing up. Additionally, growing up on a farm significantly helped introduce her to birth and its natural processes. As long as she can remember she has been interested in birth. After more than 8 years of schooling and training, she passed the board to be a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) and Licensed Midwife (LM) in both Texas and New Mexico. She started Bliss Births nearly three years ago, after following her dream of being able to help women birthing in their homes, setting her own protocols, as well as, the flexibility to set her own schedule (as much as possible when dealing with births).

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