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 and has attended over one thousand births as a midwife. She has been a midwife since 1994 and she and her husband have opened three waterbirth centers, as well as a non-profit birth center in Haiti. She has nine children, ranging from one to 21 years old (Ashlen, Arwyn, Elian, Tristan, Rowan, Dorian, Keegan, Galen, and Elora) and one grandson (Gideon). She met her husband, Fernando, while they were attending Brigham Young University in 1986. Fernando currently helps with the administration of the birth centers (including traveling to Haiti a few times a year). 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.
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