Today we’d like to introduce you to Kyli.
Hi Kyli, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
In my professional life I spent 8ish years working on an ambulance and 2 years working on labor and delivery as a surgical and birth technician. I was working on labor and delivery when I got pregnant with my first child, and I thought that meant I had the golden ticket to the best treatment and care ever! I was so wrong. It was pretty much immediate that I started feeling super sick. I went to the ER 3 times by the time I was 10 weeks along and each time they dismissed me and told me, “You’re just pregnant. This is how it is being pregnant.” I knew there was more going on though. I was beyond exhausted, cold all of the time, dizzy, fainting spells, nauseas, and suicidally depressed. It was a very rapid onset of all of these symptoms. Remember, my coworkers are literal professionals in pregnancy and birth, and they even were dismissive of my symptoms. Finally, at my 10 week appointment my MFM provider did some blood work and checked my thyroid function. This is how we found out I had the most severe case of hypothyroidism she had ever seen. She was shocked I was even still pregnant.
I became obsessed with learning everything I could about pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum and I found Evidence Based Birth. I signed up for their childbirth education course, and I listened to their podcast religiously. This shook up my world because I learned that a lot of common practice/ standards of care on labor and delivery were not evidence backed. So, I started planning my birth around the evidence instead of the standard of care. I also had an extreme bias towards the hospital because when I worked on the ambulance all of the births I had been a part of went well, but working on labor and delivery you see so much more than a perfectly executed birth. I decided I wanted a homebirth and I asked my MFM provider and she said I was a good candidate for it. However, my coworkers did not agree with this decision, and they were SUPER vocal about it and every other aspect of my birth plan. I honestly hated going in to work at this point because everyone else who was pregnant had so much excitement planning their birth with the team and I was not only left out of this because I was planning a homebirth, but I was belittled and shamed for my birth plan.
At 29 weeks and 4 days I was in a major car accident that could have easily been fatal for me and my baby if I had not made a split-second decision to turn my steering wheel to the left so I would not be completely sandwiched between the car running into me and the car in front of me. This accident put me into preterm labor, and I was treated at the hospital for preterm labor repeatedly for the rest of my pregnancy. Which luckily, continued up until 39 weeks exactly. It sucked. I had to stop working because any physical exertion would kick start the labor again. I was on complete and total bedrest.
At 39 weeks I was in bed and my water broke and just like in the movies I started contracting HARD. That is very rare, but it is what happened to me. I labored at home for almost three hours before transferring to the hospital for pain management because the back labor was making me black out. I honestly did not feel any contractions in my belly; it was entirely in my back. I got the epidural and then they found my baby was sunny side up, face presenting, and her arm was in front of her face. They told me there was physically no way she was going to come out vaginally. So, I had a cesarean section.
The thing is, even though all of these things went wrong throughout my pregnancy I had the world’s best midwife Fara. If you’re in Utah wanting a homebirth check out Mountain Creek Midwifery. She is the best! Because of my car accident she had set up co-care between her and a hospital midwife Heather. She is the world’s best hospital-based midwife. She is so good all of my friends and family have gone to her since my experience. Between the two of them I felt so cared for, seen, heard, and taken care of that none of the things going wrong phased me. I had a perfect birth. Not my dream homebirth. But my birth was perfect.
This experience is why I created my childbirth education course. Evidence Based Birth was an amazing birth course for evidence. But it lacked emphasis on mental health and tools to set you up to have a perfect birth even if NOTHING goes according to your dream birth plan. My course fills in those gaps. I took the tools I accidentally found throughout my experience and made them accessible to anyone who wants them! I took CAPPA’s birth educator course to become qualified and then I created my own course! I teach about biases that you and your providers may have. How to find a provider who can at the very least respect your biases, values, and needs in pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. I teach how to decide what you would want in different scenarios as birth changes and progresses. That way you don’t have to make split second decisions when you are actually in labor. I put emphasis on the mental health of the partner because their entire world is changing too and they are often overlooked. At the end of the day evidence-based education plus your own individual family’s values both coming together in respectful care is what is going to give you your perfect birth.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Creating this course absolutely did not go according to plan. While creating this course I was pregnant with my second and I was just as sick as I had been with my first. I had zero energy to put into marketing or social media, then the election happened and my small town in Utah along with many of my husband’s coworkers decided to start showing their intolerance of immigrants. My husband who immigrated from Kazakhstan in 2019 started experiencing threats and hate speech, so we hastily decided to move end of February 2025. I had an emergency c-section due to minor uterine rupture in January 2025. My baby stayed in the NICU for 48 hours and then at 3 and a half months, end of March 2025, we moved from Utah to Oregon. Finally, one year after my son’s birth I have started putting my heart into revamping and promoting my course!
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about Wild Womb?
Wild Womb is one of my babies. Like my human babies, I want it to grow, evolve, and eventually make positive change in this world. We offer Your Empowered Birth Course which is entirely online and self-paced. We also offer private video sessions with me where we can discuss anything you want. My goal with my course and sessions is to help expecting families feel seen, taken care of, valued, and educated. I believe with all of those things we give you the best possible formula to have a positive experience and positive mental wellbeing.
Finally, I think it is important for people to know that Wild Womb wants to make an impact. We have committed to use the same strategy that billionaires use to avoid taxes but to make the world better. 100% of our net profits (meaning after all business expenses including our salaries) will be funneled into our foundation and used to make sure families that need financial assistance have access to lactation support, formula, and diapers. We don’t believe there are ethic billionaires, and we don’t believe that access to help feeding your baby should be up for debate in legislation. So, the more you support our business the more we can support our community!
What are your plans for the future?
Currently, we are in the process of creating an app that feels like social media to our users, but only licensed, vetted professionals in pregnancy, labor, birth, postpartum, and early childhood are able to add educational content. This way we can combat the misinformation from unlicensed influencers that are “educating” people on social media channels. This app gives both the pregnant person and their partner individual accounts where they can find the communities that will support them the most. You can document your journey, think early Instagram. You can scroll the media feed to learn, or you can communicate in your community spaces. You can also search our marketplace for providers near you that specialize in various areas surrounding pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and early childhood. We have other tools embedded in the app that we are really excited about such as a calendar that you can share with friends of family members where they can sign up to help with meals, or cleaning, or anything else you designate you need help with. You don’t know what you don’t know as a parent and our app is a great place to start learning from actual professionals. We are hoping for our app to be live May or early June of 2026. Anyone who signs up for the Empowered Birth Course on our website prior to the app going live will get access to the pro version of the app for one year free!
Pricing:
- Your Empowered Birth Course $275
- Private Session with Kyli $65
- App pricing is still being discussed but there will be a free version and a pro version
- Providers who want to be listed on our market place can also sign up for a basic or a pro plan.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://wildwomb.learnworlds.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wild.womb.kyli/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61584735141768
- Other: https://www.threads.com/@wild.womb.kyli?xmt=AQF04qhR6OPrjPrlTT6R10FML1HvJYXcxLs9WINJAflEDv8
