Meet Meg, CPM LDM OR/MN

Serving the Williamette Valley and the Oregon Coast

Hello!  I am a Certified Professional Midwife and Licensed Direct entry Midwife. I moved to Oregon from Minnesota a year ago, and am so excited to be offering homebirth care here in the Williamette Valley. I am passionate about providing family-centered care that puts you in charge of the transformative process of pregnancy and birth. I have been working with birthing families for over 20 years, and have been a Certified Professional Midwife for 12 years.

I began my journey into birthwork working in community doula organizations, and helped found an organization in Minnesota that works with incarcerated women who are pregnant and parenting. My passion and dedication for working with families from all walks of life and meeting people where they are at is central to my practice. I believe that the lived life expereinces you bring to your pregnancy are central to informing the kind of personalized health care that best serves you and your family. I am very proud to be an OHP provider, which enables families who are on Oregon State’s insurance plan to receive homebirth care. I believe this is one important step in achieving birth equity for all families.

I provide safe, personalized, evidenced-based care in the comfort of your own home. I enjoy using my knowledge as a clinical herbalist to help families deal with the normal discomforts of pregnancy and birth, and find the plant remedies that are best for you. I have also received advanced training in Spinning Babies techiniques and bring that knowledge and training into both prenatal care and the birth process, and am a certified Body Ready Method Pro. I love adding as many tools as I can to the tool box I bring to your birthing year!

I walk by the side of the families I serve through out the entire pregnancy and birth process. I believe that you are the expert on your body and your baby and that my role is to provide knowledge, expertise and guidance. Through building a personal relationship in the months leading up to childbirth,  we create an atmosphere of trust that facilitates peaceful and empowered births. I believe that personalized, family centered health care creates more confident and empowered parents and community members. I also provide post- partum care for the birthing parent and babe up to 6 weeks.  Nothing’s better than snuggling into your own bed with a new babe after birth, and having your care givers come to you!

Outside of providing care for birthing families I am also a clinical herbalist. I find great peace and joy in foraging for plants medicines out in the woods and crafting personalized medicines from them. It has been a great pleasure to explore the amazing beauty and botany of Oregon, my new home. I live with my sweet pug dog and my teenage son. I spend my free time cultivating the small piece of land I am stewarding, and my newest passion is raising chickens. I also enjoy dancing, traveling, and working on my spanish.

Feel free to call me to set up an informational interview. I look forward to working with your family!