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If you are a birth worker that would like to be added to the directory, please email the following information to birthinginzion@gmail.com.
Name
What stake do you live in? Please include city, state and country.
What area do you serve? How far are you willing to travel?
Occupation (midwife, doula, OB, IBCLC, etc.–include applicable organizations (CAPPA, BAI, DONA, etc.) or state “volunteer peer support” if not licensed or certified)
Preferred method of contact (office, home, or cell phone, e-mail, Website (if applicable)
Short Bio (100-200 words) including description of services, experience, philosophy, rates, or anything else you want people to know about you and your work.
Endorse the MFCI:
Arizona
Brittani Hamilton
Stake: Tempe West Stake, Phoenix Arizona, USA
Occupation: Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM)
Contact: Bella women's care 650 West Maryland Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85013
Phone (602) 240-2401, Fax (602) 792-0244
Bio: I don't travel since I work out of an office. I also only deliver babies in the hospital (starting soon at Phoenix Baptist Hospital). I grew up in Napa, California with my father as an LDS OBGYN. I went to Brigham Young University for my nursing degree where I met my husband. We then moved down to Arizona and I became a midwife through Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing. We have 2 daughters and 1 daughter used to go to births and office visits with me. I am also available to speak with the young women or youth in wards about "being a virtuous woman," or other topics. I tailor my talks for sundays or for mutual activity nights.
Endorses the MFCI: Yes
California
Karly Nuttall
Stake: Del Mar Stake, Cardiff, CA, USA
Occupation: Licensed Midwife (LM)
Serving: Willing to travel as far north as San Clemente, as far south as Imperial Beach and as far east as El Cajon.
Contact: mobilemidwifery.sandiego@gmail.com, www.mobilemidwifery.com
Bio: I am #4 of 8 children, all born naturally and the last two at home. I decided to become a midwife when I was 17 and started school when I was 19. I started attending births as an apprentice when I was 20 and have been attending them for the past 12 years. I started out in home birth and then worked for a year and a half as a birth assistant at Best Start Birth Center in San Diego. I've had my own home birth practice since 2008. As of 2011 I've attended between 400 and 450 births. I love delivering babies! It's an exciting and moving experience every time!
Endorces the MFCI: Yes
Marla Hicks
Stake: El Cajon California Stake, San Diego County, CA, USA
Occupation: Licensed Midwife (Licensed by the Medical Board of California), Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) and Registered Nurse (RN-BC; Board Certified in Perinatal Nursing).
Contact: mamasandmidwives@gmail.com office phone (619) 825-5590
Bio: Marla Hicks began practicing midwifery in the 1970s. Soon after graduating from the BYU nursing program, she began assisting families at homebirths with midwives and physicians in the Provo-Orem area of Utah. Returning years later to California, Marla successfully completed the Seattle Midwifery School Challenge and is now licensed as a midwife by the Medical Board of California. She is a Certified Professional Midwife and is board certified in Perinatal Nursing, the high-risk obstetric nursing specialty. Marla has attended approximately 1,100 homebirths as a senior midwife. She has also worked in hospital labor and delivery units, ambulatory care settings and a free-standing birth center. Marla is the Executive Director and Program Manager for Nizhoni Institute of Midwifery, a three-year direct-entry midwifery education program in San Diego. Nizhoni is the only midwifery school in the U.S. that has been approved by both the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education and the Medical Board of California. The school is nationally accredited by the Midwifery Education Accreditation Council, a United States Department of Education approved accrediting body.
Endorses the MFCI: Yes
Georgia
We are aware of an LDS midwife in the Marietta East Stake. Please contact administrators for more information.
Idaho
Patty Ackerman, CNM
Stake: Grace Idaho Stake and Pocatello Idaho East Stake
Occupation: Certified Nurse Midwife
Contact: Pocatello Women's Health Clinic 777 Hospital Way, Building A, Ste. 300, Pocatello, Idaho 83201
208-239-3412
cell 208-220-7111
Bio:I live part time in both places. I practice in Pocatello, Idaho at Pocatello Women's Health Clinic and Portneuf Medical Center.
I am a certified nurse midwife, have been a certified lactation educator and certified childbirth educator through CAPPA, although I have let those certifications lapse as I was going through Midwifery School.
I attended Idaho State University and received my Bachelors of Science in Nursing and the Frontier Nursing University and received my Masters of Science in Midwifery. I practice in a group midwifery practice with two other midwives, and offer care to woman of all ages.
Valerie Hall, LM, CPM
Stake: Ammon Idaho Stake, Bonneville County, ID, USA
Area served: Southeast Idaho from Island Park to Soda Springs and west to American Falls. I have submitted an application to the Wyoming Board of Midwifery and if licensed will soon be serving parts of Wyoming including the Star Valley and Jackson areas.
Occupation: Certified Professional Midwife (CPM), Certified Childbirth Educator (Bradley Method)
Contact: Agape’ Birth Service and Birth Center (208)745-7571
Bio: I recently graduated from Midwives College of Utah with an Associates Degree in Midwifery and obtained my Certified Professional Midwife credential from North American Registry of Midwives. I am licensed to practice in Idaho. As one of three midwives with Agape’ Birth Services in Rigby, Idaho I provide full prenatal, birth and postpartum care. I have worked with Agape’ as an apprentice for 3 years while pursuing the CPM credential, and have attended about 150 births. Before that I worked as a doula for hospital births. My husband of 34 years, Steve, teaches Bradley Method childbirth preparation classes with me in our home in Ammon. We have 6 children and so far 6 grandchildren.
Endorses the MFCI: Yes
Angela M. Geurts, Student Midwife, CD(DONA), NCTMB
Stake: Pocatello Highland Stake, Pocatello, ID, Bannock County
Serving: Bannock County and counties up to 2 hours away from Pocatello
Occupation: Student Midwife; Intern with Agape Birth Center and Birth Services; Academic Student: National College of Midwifery
Contact:Agape Birth Center (208) 745-7571
geurtsang@gmail.com
(208) or (801) 637-1343
www.doveidaho.blogspot.com
www.pocatellodoulas.blogspot.com
www.choosinghomebirth.blogspot.com
Bio: My husband and I moved our family to Pocatello (from UT) in 2005. I have worked out of my home as a Nationally Certified Massage Therapist since 2003 and carry Young Living Essential Oils. We have five children, each was born without medication. I am passionate about natural birth and helping women have the birth experience they desire. I believe in birth! The main risk of technology is it's side-effects and overuse. Trusting birth is knowledge, faith and patience... God our Father created the birth process - trying to control or change the aspects of it creates disharmony, which affects emotion, healing, bonding and well being; for the baby, mother and parenting. I am learning midwifery as an essential part of emergency preparedness and to safeguard the laboring mother (and father) through the birth experience. I recognize birth as an empowering, unifying experience for the family unit.
Kansas
Angie Taylor
Stake: Wichita, KS Stake USA
Serving: Wellington and surrounding area. Travel distance is negotiable.
Occupation: Dr of Natural Health, IBCLC (ILCA-USLCA), Midwife (KMA), neither licensure nor certification is required in the state of KS.
Contact: 620-326-2498, drofnaturalhealth@gmail.com, www.PrivateWomb.com
Bio: Angie has been a birth worker since 2005. She is a wife, mother of 9, Dr. of Natural Health, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and Midwife. She has been serving women and their families as a birth worker and breastfeeding advocate since 2003. Angela focuses on the entire person. She understands how much the physical body depends upon the health of the emotional, mental and spiritual states. She teaches her clients about the natural workings of the body and empowers them to trust the body. The human body - especially the female body - is and has always been the most magnificent "machine" on the planet; intricately designed to function independently and requiring very little support and assistance as long as it is properly nourished and treated with love, kindness and respect. I do not bill insurance and am happy to give my clients an invoice for services rendered so that they may do so. Contact me for rates.
Endorse the MFCI:
Oklahoma
Sharon Schlicher
Stake: Noble, Oklahoma USA
Serving: State wide
Occupation:
Traditional Midwife w/ certification. --30 years
Childbirth Educator, CCE--10 years
Breastfeeding Counselor--LLLeader--15 years
Herbalist
NREMT-IP
Contact: email is easiest --Paradisexx@aol.com or on MySpace under Sharon Schlicher
Bio: Traditional Midwife with 30 years of experience delivering babies in the backwoods of Oklahoma. Waterbirths, VBACs, Siblings at births all welcomed. Unconventional families are respected. Everyone worked with at their level and barter is an option for birth fees.
Endorses the MFCI: yes
Oregon
Jennifer Gallardo
McMinnville Stake, McMinnville, Oregon
Seriving: Own birth center in Portland and Tualatin, have Prenatal office in Dundee as well, willing to travel to Salem, McMinnville, Sheridan, Portland, and more for homebirths.
Occupation: Midwife, CPM, LDM (licensed)
info@waterbirth.net
503-998-4627 cell phone
www.waterbirth.net
I had my first child in the hospital in 1990. This impassioned me to begin my midwifery journey. I began studying midwifery in 1991, a few months before the home waterbirth of my second child. I became a licensed midwife through the Seattle Midwifery School Challenge process in California and have attended over one thousand births as a midwife. I have been a midwife since 1994 and my husband and I have opened three waterbirth centers, as well as a non-profit birth center in Haiti. I have nine children, ranging from one to 21 years old (Ashlen, Arwyn, Elian, Tristan, Rowan, Dorian, Keegan, Galen, and Elora) and one grandson (Gideon). I met my husband, Fernando, while we were attending Brigham Young University in 1986. Fernando currently helps with the administration of our birth centers. Other than taking care of the birth centers and attending births, I love to go on family outings, garden, ski, and play in the ocean. I serve women during their pregnancy and birth in my birth centers or their home. I provide continuity of care in a warm and safe environment. I am passionate about birth!
Endorse the MFCI: yes
Texas
Liz Derry
Stake: Corpus Christi, Texas Stake, USA
Serving: Corpus Christi and sorrounding areas, I travel as far North as Victoria and Port Lavaca and as far south as Kingsville, as far west as Alice and Beeville.
Occupation: Certified Professional Midwife (CPM), State of Texas Licensed Midwife (LM), Birth Birth Doula trained through DONA, and I also provide childbirth classes.
Contact: Cell (361) 904-6868 or email liz@bayareabirth.com, website www.bayareabirth.com
Bio: Liz is the owner/manager of Bay Area Birth. She is a happily married mother of 6 children, a licensed vocational nurse with 13 years experience in the hospital setting, a birth doula, and a Certified Professional Midwife.
Liz has a calm manner and deep trust in birth that brings peace and comfort to her clients during pregnancy and childbirth. She has a listening ear and a gift for helping women and their partners deal with fears and any past negative childbirth experiences, to prepare them to receive their next labor and birth with trust, peace, and joy. She feels blessed to provide services and support surrounding pregnancy and childbirth in all settings.
Liz believes that Birth is safe, and becomes unsafe the more we intervene. It is very important to her that all women feel that they own their birth. This is not her birth, it is theirs, and her job is to support, nurture, and empower them to birth their way. Her approach is one of hands on for support and nurturing and being present for women during their labor with a more hands off aproach to interventions, including cervical checks. She is a practitioner who truly Trusts Birth.
Supports the MFCI: Yes
Utah
DyAnna Gordon
Stake: Washington East, Leeds, Utah, USA
Serving: I provide homebirth care as well as birth suite care for those who can’t or don’t feel comfortable birthing in their own home. I serve Mesquite Nevada and North up I-15 to Fillmore including St. George, Hurricane, Leeds, Cedar City and everywhere in between, anywhere within 2 hours of my home.
Occupation: Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) and Licensed Direct Entry Midwife (LDEM), I trained and certified as a DONA doula and CAPPA and Bradley Childbirth Educator. I also teach my own childbirth curriculum which is included in your midwifery fee.
Cellular number: 435-215-6514
Home number: 435-879-8791
Email: completebeginnings@gmail.com
website: www.completebeginnings.com
Bio: I have been involved in birth work since 2002. I was fortunate to birth all four of my children with midwives with a variety of trainings and I had a variety of experiences. I am passionate about natural birth in or out of the hospital and thoroughly believe in informed consent. I encourage my clients to be well read and well researched. I find that being in tune with the Spirit, knowledge, and respecting the mother’s divine intuition leads to a positive experience and a wonderful outcome. I have a great relationship with the local hospitals and in the very rare case of a transport my clients are treated with the respect and kindness they deserve. I have a overwhelming love of serving the women and families in my local community and providing them a safe, competent, and kind resource to birth their babies the way they wish. My services have been described as “hands off when birth is progressing normally and a firecracker when there is an emergency “. Use of a water birthing tub is included if you so desire for all clients and additional services offered are family planning counseling, preconception counseling, midwifery care, doula services, childbirth services, birth trauma support, well woman care, placenta encapsulation, breastfeeding support, and a cloth diaper and baby wearing loan service.I am actively involved in the birth community and believe that birth and the way in which women and babies are treated heavily impacts humankind all around the world. I serve as the Volunteer Coordinator for the organization MamaBaby Haiti, where I served for the month of July in 2012, as well as an instructor and board member for Birth Rite Community Midwifery School.
Endorse MFCI: Yes
Dee Gordon
Stake: Heber Valley Stake, Valley HIlls 2nd ward Heber City, Utah USA
Serving: the Wasatch Back and utah county. I can attend as far as Evenston, Vernal, Kamas, Park City, Richfield,
Occupation: Homebirth midwife, Hopsital Doula.
Contact: deannaggg@yahoo.com or Cell (text) 801-836-5975
Website: HeberValleyHomebirth.com
Bio: I began working with pregnant and new mothers because I am passionate about families and children. I take my own role as a mother very seriously and believe that a mother should always be emotionally present and available for her children. I likewise believe that I have a responsibility to be fully present and available for my clients, so that you receive the time, attention, and focus you deserve during this sacred time in your life. I began working as a doula in 2002, and then continued on to train as a montrice and now as a midwife. (DEM) and have now attended births in the United States and the Dominican Republic. I currently reside in Heber City, Utah and participate in collaborative agreements with several well known midwives in the Utah Valley area.
Endorses the MFCI: yes
Danielle Chancellor-Checketts
Company: Mermaid Birth,LLC
Stake: North Brigham Stake, Honeyville, UT, USA
Occupation: Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) & Licensed Direct Entry Midwife (LDEM) in Utah State.
Contact: 801-643-0604
mermaidbirth@gmail.com
www.mermaidbirth.com
Bio:Exceptional Midwifery Care, Specialized in Underwater Birth. At Mermaid Birth, you are not just another warm body to deal with, you are treated as the amazing & strong woman that you are, who is growing a sweet baby in her body! We treat women as a whole & offer services that reflect that. Our approach is very natural & we feel that we are here to safeguard the sacred process of pregnancy, birth & postpartum We also limit our practice numbers so that we can take really good care of our clients. Please check out our web site for more information on our services & lots more! We hope to hear from you soon.
Endorses the MFCI: Yes
Heather Shelley
Stake: Lindon, Lindon, Utah USA
Serving: Utah County and surrounding counties willing to travel 1.5 hrs
Occupation: midwife, doula, LDEM, CPM, Lactation counselor
