Let’s Make Your Birth Journey Beautiful!
Set up a free consultation to ask questions about our services or find out how to use your insurance, please reach out to our team via our contact page.
meet your midwives
Supporting your pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journey with continuity, compassion, and evidence-based care.
Personalized Midwifery Care Rooted in
Holistic prenatal & Birth Care
We started Home Birth Honey with one goal: to provide deeply personal, high-quality midwifery care for low-risk birthing families. Having worked in both high-volume practices and home birth settings, we craved the connection and continuity of care that only a small practice can offer.
Midwifery, the Way It’s Meant to Be.
Leonora is a midwife, mother, and advocate for birth autonomy. She studied filmmaking at Bard College, spent time abroad in Ecuador and Spain, then found her calling in midwifery. After training in a home birth practice and graduating from the Association for Texas Midwifery, she spent 10 years at Austin Area Birthing Center.
leonora colen
co-founder & midwife
Meet the midwives
12,000 prenatal and postpartum visits and over 500 deliveries later Leonora felt called to return to her home birth roots and do everything possible to keep birth safe and normal especially in the midst of a global pandemic.
"I started my family with my husband Cory by having the most empowering home birth I could have imagined and received such fantastic, unobtrusive care. We spend the majority of our time parenting (wrangling) 3 boys, one pug mix, a persian cat, and a hairless cat here in South Austin. In my free time I like to make pottery, swim at Barton Springs and go to the movies as often as possible."
Leonora is a midwife, mom, and a human who believes that birthing people should have autonomy in their birthing experience. She grew up splitting time between the foothills of Northern California and the Bay Area, took a gap year, and studied abroad for a year in Ecuador. She got a BA in Filmmaking at Bard College in upstate New York and took another year studying abroad in Spain. After graduating she moved to Austin, Texas and began a midwifery apprenticeship in a thriving home birth practice and, after graduating from the Association for Texas Midwifery program, she started working at Austin Area Birthing Center where she worked for 10 years.
She is licensed through the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) and the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM).
about leonora
meg Rodenbusch
co-founder & midwife
Meg Rodenbusch is one of the two founders of Home Birth Honey. She is a Certified Professional Midwife through NARM and a Licensed Midwife in the State of Texas. She worked at Austin Area Birthing Center from 2011 to 2020 as a Staff Midwife and, in her last year, as Staff Development Director. Meg has attended over 850 deliveries and cared for and supported thousands of women during pregnancy, labor and postpartum.
Meg Rodenbusch is one of the two founders of Home Birth Honey. She is a Certified Professional Midwife through NARM and a Licensed Midwife in the State of Texas. She worked at Austin Area Birthing Center from 2011 to 2020 as a Staff Midwife and, in her last year, as Staff Development Director. Meg has attended over 850 deliveries and cared for and supported thousands of women during pregnancy, labor and postpartum. Prior to her time at the birth center she apprenticed in the home birth world and attended many deliveries in her own semi-rural neighborhood southwest of Austin. One of her greatest pleasures has been maintaining relationships with the families whose children she has helped bring earthside and functioning as a continued part of their lives and evolution. Meg has also been lucky enough to catch five of her nieces and nephews, three of them by Vaginal Birth after Cesarean and one of them on her eldest daughter's 18th birthday!
Meg is the biological mother of two children, both born with midwives - the first at AABC and the second at home. She also has a stepson who was born at home, but to his own mother! She lives with her husband and their blended family, 3 dogs, 2 goats, 3 cats, 12 chickens, and innumerable fish in a farmhouse on a couple acres in the hill country Southwest of Austin and not far from Hamilton Pool.
Meg has a BA in Literature and Dance from New College of Florida, an MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College, and is a graduate of the Association of Texas Midwives Midwifery Training Program. Prior to discovering birth work, Meg ran a dance program at an all girls school in Greenwich, Connecticut. She was also briefly the director of her own Calyx Dance Company here in Austin. She grew up in Massachusetts, in Texas, and overseas in The Netherlands, where she graduated high school. Meg is an avid yoga practitioner and revels in her time in the garden and on the lake. She has a Mongolian yurt on her property that serves as both a personal yoga shala and as a satellite clinic space for Home Birth Honey! She loves concocting spontaneous dishes in the kitchen with her husband, traveling to British Columbia and Baja California, and nourishing her children’s creative spark. Her greatest passion is helping women harness their power and unlock the creative potential of their own bodies. She believes that giving birth where and with whom you wish, with the care team of your choice, is a fundamental human right. She is excited to be a part of this important time of transition in your life as a family.
Meg Rodenbusch is one of the two founders of Home Birth Honey. She is a Certified Professional Midwife through NARM and a Licensed Midwife in the State of Texas. She worked at Austin Area Birthing Center from 2011 to 2020 as a Staff Midwife and, in her last year, as Staff Development Director. Meg has attended over 850 deliveries and cared for and supported thousands of women during pregnancy, labor and postpartum. Prior to her time at the birth center she apprenticed in the home birth world and attended many deliveries in her own semi-rural neighborhood southwest of Austin. One of her greatest pleasures has been maintaining relationships with the families whose children she has helped bring earthside and functioning as a continued part of their lives and evolution. Meg has also been lucky enough to catch five of her nieces and nephews, three of them by Vaginal Birth after Cesarean and one of them on her eldest daughter's 18th birthday!
Meg is the biological mother of two children, both born with midwives - the first at AABC and the second at home. She also has a stepson who was born at home, but to his own mother! She lives with her husband and their blended family, 3 dogs,
2 goats, 3 cats, 12 chickens, and innumerable fish in a farmhouse on a couple acres in the hill country Southwest of Austin and not far from Hamilton Pool.
Meg has a BA in Literature and Dance from New College of Florida, an MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College, and is a graduate of the Association of Texas Midwives Midwifery Training Program. Prior to discovering birth work, Meg ran a dance program at an all girls school in Greenwich, Connecticut. She was also briefly the director of her own Calyx Dance Company here in Austin. She grew up in Massachusetts, in Texas, and overseas in The Netherlands, where she graduated high school. Meg is an avid yoga practitioner and revels in her time in the garden and on the lake. She has a Mongolian yurt on her property that serves as both a personal yoga shala and as a satellite clinic space for Home Birth Honey! She loves concocting spontaneous dishes in the kitchen with her husband, traveling to British Columbia and Baja California, and nourishing her children’s creative spark. Her greatest passion is helping women harness their power and unlock the creative potential of their own bodies. She believes that giving birth where and with whom you wish, with the care team of your choice, is a fundamental human right. She is excited to be a part of this important time of transition in your life as a family.
about meg
Brittany Smith
midwife
Brittany has been part of the Austin birthing community for over 18 years, with experience in hospitals, high-risk maternal-fetal medicine, and out-of-hospital birth centers. She graduated from the Association of Texas Midwives Training Program in 2023 and has spent the past three years training at Home Birth Honey, where she’s honed her passion for personalized, compassionate birth care.
I have been in the Austin birthing community for over 18 years. I have worked in the hospital setting beside OBGYN's, in a high risk maternal-fetal medicine office and in an out of hospital birth center with many wonderful midwives. I graduated from the Association of Texas Midwives training program in June of 2023, and have had the pleasure of being a student here at Home Birth Honey for the last 3 years. Women's health and birthing rights have been a passion of mine since my own delivery 18 years ago, and I am excited to have taken the leap into becoming a midwife after all these years.
I am a true Austinite, born and raised. I am married to my best friend, and we have two beautiful daughters. Besides driving and cheering at all of their extra curricular activities, I enjoy traveling with my family, 2-stepping with my husband, working out, and loving on our 3 dogs and cat. I have had the pleasure to be involved in hundreds of births over my 18 years in the birth world, but now I am looking forward to serving in the home birth community of Austin.
about Brittany
A passionate student midwife and traditional birthworker, Joni brings decades of experience to the Homebirth Honey team. A mother of six (ages 12-29) and grandmother of one, she attended her first birth in 1993 and became a hospital-based doula in 2003, focusing on serving marginalized communities. Joni began working as an RN in labor and delivery in 2007, she initially planned to become a CNM but pivoted when she realized the medical system’s approach to maternal care conflicted with her values.
Joni lives with her junior high school sweetheart on a homestead east of Austin, where they raise Jersey cows, chickens, ducks, a turkey, and a big sow named Marigold, and of course some children.
about Joni
Allie is a student midwife who recently completed her academic training at MTC School of Midwifery in Austin, Texas. Her passion for midwifery runs deep and began early—long before she ever stepped into a classroom. Over the years, that curiosity evolved into a calling: to walk alongside families during one of the most transformative experiences of their lives.
Allie believes strongly in the power of informed, respectful, and holistic care. She is particularly drawn to midwifery because of its emphasis on building trusting relationships, honoring the body's natural processes, and empowering people through education and support.
She’s thrilled to be joining the Home Birth Honey team, where she will continue to learn and grow through hands-on education in holistic and compassionate maternal care.
At home in North Austin, Allie is kept on her toes by her two strong-willed cats, Stephen and Drew. She enjoys cooking, singing, crafting, and taking long walks when the Texas weather happens to allow.
about Allie
Stay in the know
Drop your email below to stay in the loop for our quarterly meetups and community offerings.
© 2025 Home Birth Honey ATX