Let’s help get this travelling birthkeeper back on the road!

Hi! My name is Britt and I am writing with a heavy heart today to reach out to the greater birth community to help one of our dear sisters, travelling birthkeeper, Kellee.

On the 17th of December, travelling home from visiting a rural birth client, Kellee hit a kangaroo on an isolated dirt road, which caused her car to swerve violently sideways and roll, crushing the roof and windscreen.

Kellee was upside down in her vehicle and had to free herself from the wreck and begin walking for help.

She had no phone service and was on an unknown, rarely used road and had no idea of her location or direction.

She tried the emergency number 112 which did not work.

She then walked both directions of the road and after an hour was able to get through to emergency services just as a kind passerby stopped and offered her support.

Kellee was then taken by ambulance to hospital where she was discharged with minor bruising. The police said that the only thing that saved her was the roof racks on her car, otherwise she would most certainly have died with the car continuing to roll into dense bushland.

We are asking our birth community to come together to recoup some of these exorbitant expenses incurred in her accident in service to women who birth on their terms. Kellee needed to get home to Brisbane by bus, recover her wrecked vehicle, and needs to now replace her vehicle so she can get back to doing what she quietly and steadfastly does - being with women and babies.

Kellee has been the one to take clients that many deem “too hard” and her mission to be with women in birth has seen her travel to many remote locations and unique birthing places - but she has never shied away from the challenge. She has crossed floodwaters and walked through the figurative fire in her service to women, transcending all barriers, even financial, taking pro bono birth clients when they cannot pay.

Kellee is very private about her birth clients and work, and does not seek fame or notoriety for her calling.

I am asking the birth community to rally together and raise money for Kellee so she can get back to her true calling in this life as soon as possible, just like she has always helped others without a second thought.

Any amount will help her recover from this near death experience, and it will ensure that the rural women that she has promised her presence and support to in their upcoming births will not be without her. Rural women are already adversely affected in their birthing choices by distance and location, and Kellee is the answer for many of them. A travelling birthkeeper is a wonderfully rewarding but sometimes taxing calling - let’s get Kellee back on the road ♥️