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I grew up in and around San Francisco as part of a multilingual, immigrant family. I owe my love of nature and science to my mother– an animal lover– and my paternal grandmother– a research physiologist. My first introduction to midwifery took place when I was 9 years old and my semi-feral cat went into labor on my lap. As an undergraduate at UC Santa Cruz, I majored in Environmental Studies: Agroecology, but along the way Women’s Studies courses and exposure to homebirth and social justice movements sparked a passion for women’s health. Then a dear friend invited me to her birth at UCSF and I found myself profoundly moved by the experience, but also extremely frustrated with how she and her baby were treated and with the medical approach to birth. And so my life’s path changed and I was called to midwifery.

My midwifery education began in 1993 and included extensive didactic training and apprenticeship with homebirth midwives in the San Francisco Bay Area, at Maternidad La Luz, (a freestanding birth center and midwifery school in El Paso, Texas), as well as, with traditional midwives in Mexico. I earned my CPM credential from the North American Registry of Midwives in 1999 and my midwife license (LM) from the Medical Board of California in 2008.

In between I became a mother myself, giving birth to my son at home in a waterbirth tub with a midwife’s help.

I am honored to serve all growing families as an affirming health care provider– regardless of age, race, ethnicity, religion, immigration status, socioeconomic background, marital status/single-hood, weight, sexual orientation or gender expression. When not catching babies, I can be found walking in nature with my son, researching family trees, and tending my roses and vegetable garden.

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