Category Archives: midwives

Carrie Duncan was called to midwifery in 1996 after the homebirth of her daughter, Sierra, in Canby, Oregon. She attended homebirths with her midwife for 2 years before apprenticing at Andaluz in and graduating from Birthing Way College of Midwifery in 2003. She practiced in Portland as a home birth midwife and has lived and [...]

Jesica Dolin is a native Oregonian, born at home and raised in Beaverton, and a proud Portlander since 1996. Jesica knew she was going to be a midwife from the time she was 3 years old when she started drawing stick figure women giving birth. She has a Bachelor’s of Science in Midwifery, and has [...]

Katherine Greer did not set out originally to become a midwife.  She was working as a nurse in the intensive care unit when her son was born with a midwife.  Through the process of pregnancy, her son’s birth, and the transition to life with a child, her respect and appreciation for a midwife’s role grew [...]

Tracy Lawson-Allen has enjoyed a lifelong interest and devotion to mothers and babies. She was inspired by the birth of her son in 2000, a hospital birth with a midwife, to serve others in childbirth. She left that experience realizing that she hadn’t been sick or in need of hospital care, and most of all [...]

Adele Rose has been attending births since 1977.  She became a primary attendant in 1981 serving a very rural community on the SW Washington & NW Oregon coast. She worked as an empirically trained home birth midwife for 15 years.  In 1996 Adele decided to formalize her midwifery education by attending Birthingway College of Midwifery in [...]

Dana Shibley began her quest to work with birth after her daughter Alder was born in the hospital without medications in 1993. The struggle to have a birth without interventions was surprising to her. In that transition from vulnerability to ecstasy while giving birth, she realized clearly what she was supposed to be when she grew up [...]

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 [...]