Jennifer

Jennifer Gallardo had her first child in the hospital, in 1990. This impassioned her to begin her midwifery journey. She began studying midwifery in 1991, a few months before the home waterbirth of her second child. She became a licensed midwife through the Seattle Midwifery School Challenge process in California. She has been a midwife since 1994 and she and her husband have opened 3 waterbirth centers, and are currently working on opening a non-profit birth center in Haiti. She has 8 children, ranging from 1 to 19 years old (Arwyn, Elian, Tristan, Rowan, Dorian, Keegan, Galen, and Elora), with her 9th baby due in November 2010. She met her husband, Fernando, while they were attending Brigham Young University in 1986. Fernando currently helps with the administration for Andaluz. Other than taking care of the birth centers and attending births, Jennifer loves to go on family outings, garden, ski, and play in the ocean.