My interest in midwifery started as a teen, when I first learned about midwives practicing around the world and in my own community. Fueled by a love of babies and a fascination with pregnancy and birth, I fell in love with the philosophy of birth and the idea that our birth experiences impact who we become and how we interact with the world.

I went on to study direct-entry midwifery, attending Birthwise Midwifery School in Maine, and Maternidad La Luz in El Paso, TX. I graduated from Maternidad La Luz in 2016. In 2017 I started a homebirth practice in Las Cruces, the community I’ve called home since 2013. I also went on to work as a staff midwife at Maternidad La Luz, continuing to serve clients on the border in a busy birth center, and teaching student midwives at the school. As my own practice grew, my focus turned solely to homebirth practice, and working with families in Southern New Mexico and midwifery students in an apprenticeship model.

As the need for homebirth services continued to rise, and as my own family has grown, I’ve shifted to co-creating a sustainable group practice with trusted midwife-friends at Vida Midwifery. I am delighted to work in this model of nurturing homebirth families as well as their midwives. Within this vision of midwifery practice , I am able to continue my passion for supporting informed choice for families as well as spreading herbal knowledge, and continuing to train the next generation of midwives.

I developed a fascination with midwifery after my first experience with pregnancy and birth in 2006. The care I received from my midwives helped me to feel seen, heard, and respected-things that far too many birthing people have expressed not feeling when it’s most needed. Being midwifed through an experience, I learned, wasn’t so much being empowered by someone else, but rather being afforded the space to empower myself. I seek to pay this forward in my own practice, with the utmost respect for the wisdom and lived experiences that each client brings with them.

After completing my nursing degree at NMSU in 2009, I gained valuable experience working with mothers and babies as an RN in hospital settings in New Mexico and Maryland while also growing my own family. Those experiences cemented my desire to focus on birth work, and to explore the many other facets of practicing as a midwife. I completed my Master of Science degree in Nurse-Midwifery from Frontier Nursing University in 2018, after finishing a clinical practicum in both hospital and birth center settings in New Mexico and Colorado. After giving concentrated thought to the type of work I wanted to do, I went to live and work at a free-standing birth center in the Texas Rio Grande Valley, bordering with Tamaulipas, Mexico.

My work there helped solidify my desire to continue basing my work in community settings. I returned home to Las Cruces in 2020 and started a solo practice offering homebirth and well/GYN care, and through this work became more connected to the community birth workers in the area. I was fortunate to partner with two other midwives in 2023 to explore the possibilities within sustainable group practice, and we’ve experienced rapid growth since then, with a new vision for a birth and health center coming to life this year. As a provider, I’m passionate about offering a healthcare home for clients that is trauma-informed, that affirms bodily autonomy and reproductive justice, and that works within multiple treatment modalities.

I have had a life-long love of pregnancy and birth. As a child, I watched every episode of “A Baby Story” on TLC. I told my mother when I was 7 that I just wanted to watch babies be born when I grew up. When I was 12 I read the entire What to Expect When You’re Expecting book, when my Sister-in-law was pregnant with my first niece.

I felt a call to do something different with my second pregnancy. I ended up choosing to receive care through a birth center in El Paso. The midwives there treated me in a way I had not experienced before. I was trusted with my body, respected and heard. I spent far too much of my time in appointments asking questions and listening to birth stories. At my six week appointment I said I was going to be a midwife!

I began training as a direct-entry midwife three months later. I studied through the apprenticeship model while attending National College of Midwifery online. During my apprenticeship, I served the southern part of New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. I worked with six different midwives over the course of the next five years. I gained hands on experience through each midwife, fine tuning what midwifery meant to me. Through this time, my family was also growing. I welcomed six more children into my home through birth and foster care. This began shaping what I wanted midwifery to look like for me and my family.

In February 2022, I took the NARM exam and licensed in the state of New Mexico. Shortly after, I opened my practice here in the community that I had trained in. During this time I continued to work with all of the local midwives in an assisting role. I have so much love for the communities in Southern New Mexico and began working to collaborate with different organizations to allow greater access to midwifery care throughout the state of New Mexico. I quickly realized that this was going to prove difficult while running my own solo practice. I have always held a special fire for providing size-friendly care, and quality care regardless of socio-economic status, and wanted to work to bring that to our communities in a more accessible model.

With the goal of quickening the work to bring more sustainable models of care to the communities in Southern New Mexico, I am so excited to co-create a group practice with two midwife-friends from the community.