Kristen Nagle

Former NICU Nurse and co-creator of Canadian Frontline Nurses and Reclaiming Birth Conferences

Kristen Nagle is a mother to three young children that continue to shape and direct the path she walks on. Having been a NICU nurse of 14 years, Kristen feared birth and believed in medical practices taught to her in school. Through the journey of her own children beginning with her oldest in 2015, the veil slowly began to lift.

Once Kristen saw the harms being done to women in the hospital, she could no longer unsee what was being done, the work no longer aligned with her soul. After learning about physiological birth she felt robbed of an experience she didn't know existed with her first two sons having both been medical births.

Equipped with new knowledge and passion when Kristen became pregnant with their child, she embarked on a new path to have a home birth with a traditional birth companion (wise women). It was in this transformative experience that the fire was ignited within and Kristen knew her purpose was to share this sacred experience with all women, so they knew what existed for them as well.

Christina also attended Kristen’s birth of her daughter Adley, and together they are passionate to help as many women as possible have their own powerfully, unique, physiological birth experience. Kristen’s hope is, that if someone like her, a former NICU nurse, who once believed home births should be illegal, can reclaim the rite of passage of childbirth, and become a fierce advocate for home births, that more women realize their strength, their power, their sacred blessing and also reclaim their birth.

Once women realize how capable their bodies are, their strength, they'll have the confidence to stand in this power, their intuition, their innate wisdom and confidently raise their children trusting in their ability to care and nurture them, without external validation. It's not just reclaiming birth, it's reclaiming motherhood, it's reclaiming ourselves as women and how we've been fearfully and wonderfully created. Glorifying His name and perfect design.

This was how The Reclaiming Birth Conference was first created and launched in September 2023, only to gain momentum to evolve to reach more women to normalize physiological birth and create widespread, generational change.