Karen Quigley (CPM,LM, IBCLC)
Karen is over 30 years deep into maternal health care. She began as a childbirth educator, doula and birth assistant and is now a licensed midwife and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. Karen has experience with her own home births and supporting others in birth only at home in multiple states and settings in the U.S. but also abroad when she traveled to Davao, Philippines to serve at a birth center as an intern. Her heart of hearts is to see families reclaim their right to birth with strength and confidence. She also has a passion for training students to spread midwifery all over the world.
Sarah Larsen
Primary Midwife under supervision
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Sharel Bratcher Apprentice midwife
Sharel is 6 years plus into birth work which started out as a birth photographer when she was 9 months pregnant with her first after graduating from TWU with a degree in Child Development and Art. Her passion for supporting families by teaching informed consent, child birth education, and lactation support came from her personal out of hospital birth experiences and the births she has captured as a photographer. After catching a baby for the first time in her friends bathroom she could no longer shake the calling she had to be a midwife. She became a certified doula through Still Birth Day and jumped in serving families full time at birth centers, hospitals and at home and now trains other doulas to do the same while she focuses more on midwifery. Sharel has experience serving many types of families including families going through loss, infertility, birth trauma, IVF, and now surrogacy as she completes her first surrogate journey through IVF.
Burgeon Midwifery & Women's Health 