Priyanka Idicula is the co-founder of Birthvillage. In 2006, she left her corporate career, after being convinced that Indian women needed and truly deserved a better way of birth. Right from the start she knew that an ‘informed choice’ lay at the heart of a woman having agency over her birth experience. She trained in Lamaze, being one of the first Indians to get a twin scholarship to do her course and be certified as a Lamaze Educator from Lamaze International (globally accredited evidence based birth education organization).

She co-founded Birthvillage along with Red Miller in 2008 – working with skilled and experienced midwives to facilitate evidence based and empowering births, while she herself undertook the long and extremely demanding process of qualifying as an international midwife.

She completed her midwifery training in 2014. Since catching babies has become second nature, it’s hard to get Priyanka to state a definite number of babies that she has caught, but as of this moment all she will admit is that the number is upwards of 600.