Welcome! I’m Rebecca Koller.
I’ve been drawn to a slower paced, more holistic style of community care since childhood. As a young one I would watch Dr Quinn with my mom and fantasize about living a life like hers. Reading Starhawk’s book “The Fifth Sacred Thing” as a young adult continued to feed my fantasy (and remembrance) of traditional female healers. While apprenticing with an herbalist as a 20 year old, I discovered midwifery and homebirth. I knew that I needed to follow that path and, through a process of trust, I arrived at Birthwise Midwifery School as a 22 year old.
After graduating, I became certified as a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) by the North American Registry of Midwives in 2008. My training included apprenticing in a busy midwifery practice in Florida, attending births at home and in a freestanding birth center. At the end of my apprenticeship, I traveled to Bali to volunteer at a rural nonprofit birth center. The varied experiences helped me to develop skills useful in all kinds of births, as well as a passion for diversity and compassionate care.
I live in the woods with my husband and two children on the land my husband grew up on. Both my children were born here and giving birth to them was amazing and transformative. I love my town of Whitefield, Maine and see it as a vibrant, beautiful community. I am intensely invested in my community and strive to serve it well, as well as extending that care to surrounding communities. It would be an honor to walk with you through your pregnancy, birth, and new parenting journey.
Hello! I’m Antonia Piccone.
A series of dreams and conversations with friends and family members who were doulas led me to birthwork in 2017. It wasn’t until I had attended a number of births in the hospital as a full spectrum doula that I met a homebirth midwife. She unveiled a different paradigm of care than the one I had been witnessing in the hospital and through her mentorship, I began learning the art, science and lineage of homebirth midwifery.
I attended Birthwise Midwifery School in Maine for one year prior to its closure in 2021 and began apprenticing with Rebecca that same year. I spent three years learning from and alongside Rebecca and the families of MotherSeed Midwifery who generously included me in their care. I then went on to train with midwives in group practices in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and the Philippines. I completed the didactic portion of my education at the College of Traditional Midwifery in Tennessee and returned to Maine in 2025. After five years of education and training, I became a Certified Professional Midwife in 2026 and am thrilled to be back at MotherSeed Midwifery.
I chose to pursue homebirth midwifery in order to serve families in a way that felt most in line with my values. Midwifery, to me, is defined by choice – the ability to make choices about our bodies, families and babies that feel most aligned with our personal, cultural and familial backgrounds, and to have that choice-making dialogue with the most up to date research and evidence. Outside of midwifery, I enjoy spending time with my family, being outside, and dancing tango. I look forward to getting to know you and your family.
Our Philosophy of Birth & Midwifery Care
We believe that birth is a sacred and unique experience for each birthing person, baby, and family. We believe our experience of birth matters, but not that it always has to be as we imagine it or desire it to be. We feel strongly that there is space for both science and spirituality in birth — that both matter individually yet are also interconnected.
We strive to provide individualized care and honor the uniqueness of the birthing individual, the family, and the community that they are a part of. We are invested in the preservation of homebirth and reverence for midwives and the role that they have played throughout time. We are deeply grateful for all the midwives who came before us — those who lost their lives or livelihoods while serving their communities and those who persevered and maintained the traditions through an array of social, political, and technological changes and challenges.
Through practicing traditional midwifery infused with some of the best 21st century resources and research, we hope to contribute to increasing knowledge and respect for reproductive processes and help to foster strong and healthy people, families, and communities.
“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.”
The Story of the MotherSeed
Midwifery Name
After a decade of private midwifery practice, I (Rebecca) was ready to create a new practice name that better reflected my values and philosophy. One day, my 5-year-old son asked me to marry him. I responded that, if marriage is a union between two people, he and I were already “married.” Growing and birthing him was one of the greatest connections possible.
I then tried to explain to him that when I was growing within my mother’s body (his grandmother), I had inside of me the seeds (oocytes/eggs) that would potentially become my own babies. He was already part of me even as I was forming in the womb. After this conversation, I got lost in thought exploring this incredible connection that we share with our mothers and our children.
I imagined myself as an unborn human inside my mother and remembered that the seed that I grew from existed within my mom while she was in her mother (my loving grandmother). This connects directly to the womb, including its cycles. I envisioned the fertile layer (the lining of the uterus, the topsoil of the human); the seed (the ovum) to be planted and take root; the space, nutrients, and waters to grow the seed; the ability and flexibility to grow and change to support life; the incredible strength (contractions) to push forth a new life; and the resiliency and flexibility for recovery, involution, and preparation to go through the cycle again.
The phrase MotherSeed came to me while lost in this journey, filled with a reverence for the beauty of the maternal line. I wondered, “where does the mother seed begin?” I feel that it starts somewhere within the depths of the Earth — our greatest mother — who we have long been connected with.
As a midwife, I feel it’s important to honor the many ways we connect to mother, both literally and spiritually. MotherSeed Midwifery was born from this place of honoring and deep reverence for familial connection, the Earth, and our own birth journeys.
I want to recognize that not all people identify with the word or meaning of “mother.” That’s okay. This word and the matrilineal line feels important to me personally, but my practice of midwifery always centers the person, however they relate to this journey. I look forward to learning about you, your experience of life, and how we can create a meaningful birth experience together.
“I found Rebecca during one of the most unique seasons of my life—we were traveling the country in a camper and happened to be in Maine when I was 23 weeks pregnant. Finding her felt like such a blessing, and having Antonia there as well (even though she was still training at the time) was an unexpected gift. From the very beginning, their energy aligned so naturally with mine. They were both incredibly soft, gentle, and intentional in every interaction. I always felt respected, heard, and completely in control of my own care. Every step of the pregnancy was explained thoroughly—I never once questioned why something was being done, and I deeply appreciated how they also supported me in choosing when something wasn’t necessary. What meant so much to me was how they welcomed my entire family into the experience. My husband and four children were always included, and their office felt warm, peaceful, and inviting—never clinical or rushed. When it came time to give birth, their level of care and attentiveness was beyond anything I could have hoped for. After my water broke, contractions didn’t start for 15 hours, and I really wanted to avoid going to the hospital. Through what honestly felt like magic—a combination of herbs Rebecca provided and the way Antonia guided my body through positioning and movement—my labor finally began. I was exactly 40 weeks, and just four hours later, I delivered. The entire labor and birth were flawless. They were so present, so calm, and so attentive to every detail. I never once felt worried or unsure—I felt completely safe. One moment that always stayed with me was when I casually mentioned wanting ice, and Rebecca immediately got up and ran to the store without hesitation. It’s those little acts of care that say so much about who they are. After that birth, I remember saying that if I ever had another baby, I would have to come back to Maine—because I couldn’t imagine finding midwives like them again. Now, living in Florida and pregnant with my sixth, I can say with complete certainty that I was right. There truly is no one like Rebecca and Antonia. I will forever be grateful to them for showing me how peaceful, empowering, and beautiful birth can be.”
