The Midwife Team...

 

At the Baby Place, continuous care from familiar and trusted staff is our goal.  

Our team is made up of the Precepting/Senior Midwife, an Associate Midwife and one or two interning midwifery students.

We have found that this practice of three midwives is especially beneficial for our families.  With only 3 midwives we are still able to provide the continuity of care through relationship that is so important to you.  We each have time to get to know you during our longer prenatal appointments and you can be sure that it is we who will attend you at your birth.   

Having 3 midwives also allows you to have confidence in your care.  You can be sure an experienced midwife is available to you when you are in labor.  We bring over 20 years traditional experience, as well as Professional Midwife Certification to our practice.  We have worked together for several years through hundreds of births and were honored to hear the flow of our care team between families in our birth center described by a colleague as "seamless".    

One dad described the experience of being cared for by three midwives this way:  

"It was like having 'one midwife with six hands'".

We will work with you to create a safe, sensitive, supportive atmosphere—during your pregnancy and for the birth of your baby. 

"A cord of three strands is not quickly broken." Ecclesiastes 4:12

 

Student Midwives: At any given time, the Baby Place may have student midwives at varying stages of their training. The Baby Place Midwives and Birth Center serves as a preceptor site for the National College of Midwives (an accredited midwifery training program recognized by the Midwifery Education Accreditation Council (MEAC) for midwives interested in becoming Certified Professional Midwives). 

 

 
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FAQ

 

Coleen Goodwin,

Senior Precepting Midwife

Senior Midwife, Coleen Goodwin has more than 21 years experience. Called to midwifery to serve women and families, Coleen is a seasoned and experienced midwife. A practitioner of the time honored, woman-centered art of the traditional midwife, Coleen has attended well over 600 births over the past 21 + years and is committed to providing safe and sensitive midwifery care to each woman throughout the course of her pregnancy, labor and beyond. While practicing in Nevada, Coleen was certified through the Nevada Midwives Association. 

A teaching preceptor for the The National College of Midwifery, Coleen trains and guides student midwives in preparation to sit for the NARM (North American Registry of Midwives) exam to become Certified Professional Midwives. 

Coleen is married with eight children, and eleven grandchildren.  Her husband Brent and her children have always been supportive of her calling as a midwife. (Brent remodeled this birth center and is responsible for all things carpentry as well as keeping all the staff in good spirits.)

This gift of an understanding husband and family enables Coleen to care for you and your family just as she has cared for own.

 

  

   

  

 

   

Jerusha Goodwin,

Midwife
Growing up with a midwife for a mother leaves a girl with mixed feelings about midwifery. Experiencing first hand the amount of sacrifice a midwife and her family endure is enough to make you look for any other vocation. So, when I began to feel my own calling to midwifery, I fought it tooth and nail. However, each time I witnessed the life-changing and empowering experience families have when they receive this kind of uniquely individual and personalized care, a voice inside me would say—“This is where you belong. This is where I want you to serve”. And still, I fought. 
 
It was not until I received this uncommon care myself, and was “midwifed” through my own pregnancies and births, that I came to fully understand what 
it means to me to be a midwife is also what it means to me to be a mother: sovereignty and surrender.
 
Through midwifery, I realized that being empowered through information and support gives women the freedom to be self-determining—to explore and express what we value and to make our own decisions about the kind of care that is best for us. It is through the safety of this sovereignty that we can surrender—first surrendering our bodies to pregnancy and birth and then surrendering our hearts to our children.