Your Midwives


  • Certified Professional Midwife, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Registered Nurse

    Aimee has an abiding commitment to the field of maternal and infant health and has served expectant and postpartum families for twenty-five years. She is dedicated to providing respectful, compassionate and individualized care.

    Transformed by the experience of giving birth to her first child in 1996, Aimee embarked on the path to midwifery. She became a certified labor doula with Doulas of North America in 1999, while working toward her goal of becoming a certified professional midwife (CPM).

    Originally trained and certified in the Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth, Aimee taught Bradley classes for seven years before co-writing and teaching a holistic childbirth education curriculum for families seeking to give birth at home.

    Aimee completed her clinical midwifery training through apprenticeship with practicing midwives in Virginia and Louisiana. She received additional midwifery training in Senegal with the African Birth Collective, and in Tennessee with the The Farm midwives, before earning the CPM credential in 2009.

    The same year, Aimee co-founded Ten Moons Midwifery, a home birth practice that provides primary care of the well mother and newborn throughout the childbearing year. Over the years, Ten Moons Midwifery has offered a variety of community-focused programs to families across the Shenandoah Valley, including birth circles providing support and healing spaces to tell stories and ask questions, and an infant loss sewing circle connecting bereaved parents with one another.

    Aimee is also a midwifery educator, a clinical preceptor registered with the North American Registry of Midwives and Midwives College of Utah, providing training and apprenticeships for CPM students. She has been a panelist and speaker on the subjects of pregnancy loss, breastfeeding and midwifery care. During her time in NYC she served as a Clinical Instructor with Columbia University in the Science of Nursing Practice with Childbearing Families course.

    Aimee brings a deep interest in botanical medicine to her work. In 2009, she completed a nine-month apprenticeship in the art and science of herbal medicine with Kat Meier of Sacred Plant Traditions. She has led workshops in botanical medicine with an emphasis on the use of herbs for pregnancy, birth and healthy families.

    Aimee helps people successfully breastfeed, and when she was an accredited La Leche League leader from 2001 to 2019, she led monthly lactation support group meetings. Currently, she offers private lactation consultations.

    Aimee holds a Master of Science in Nursing from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on Visual and Critical Studies in Photography and Reproductive Health from Virginia Commonwealth University. Aimee will complete Columbia University’s Doctor of Nursing Practice in Midwifery program in 2024.

    After earning her MSN, Aimee worked as a labor and delivery nurse at Woodhull Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York serving childbearing families within the nation’s largest public health care system and at Refuah Birth Center, a freestanding birth center in Rockland County, under the umbrella of a Federally Qualified Health Center.

    Aimee is the mother of three breastfed children, each born under the care of midwives. 

  • Certified Professional Midwife, Registered Nurse

    Desiree attended her first homebirths in Eugene, Oregon (1994-1996) as labor support to friends receiving traditional midwifery care. From this foundational experience, authenticity has remained essential to her midwifery practice. She follows her Mexican maternal and paternal grandmothers as a seamstress and artist by creating birth-inspired textile art for birth workers on Etsy.

    Desiree trained in the apprenticeship model and earned a Certified Professional Midwife credential through the North American Registry of Midwives in 2009. She values birthing women of all cultures and participated in a midwifery internship assisting the mothers of Mboro, Senegal. As a CPM, Desiree has provided holistic midwifery care to rural homebirth families with Ten Moons Midwifery.

    In 2012, she participated in the Green Comfort School of Herbal Medicine's Foundations and Apothecary courses, deepening her relationship with medicinal plants. Committed to lifelong learning, Desiree earned a registered nurse credential in 2021, which she used to serve mothers of diverse and high-risk needs as a labor and delivery nurse. She will complete a Bachelor of Science in Nursing with James Madison University in the Fall of 2024.

    Desiree has worked with numerous Certified Professional Midwives and Certified Nurse Midwives to support women in achieving optimal birth outcomes in homes, birth centers, and hospital settings.

    She has volunteered in leadership roles for a grassroots birth advocacy group and her state midwifery organization. She has volunteered as a doula and childbirth educator with a crisis pregnancy shelter. As an RN, Desiree volunteers once a month at her community free clinic to assist women experiencing health disparities in receiving gynecologic care.

    Desiree is the mother of four children and grandmother of one, all born and breastfed under the care of midwives.

Apprentice Midwife

  • As a certified doula, apprentice midwife and mother of four, Eliza has a wealth of knowledge about pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. Sharing this information and helping mamas discover the deep wisdom of their own bodies is both her passion and her mission. When not supporting families she enjoys spending time with her family, gardening, listening to music, and indulging in self-care.

Birth Assistant and Lactation Provider

  • Natalia was born and spent her first thirteen years in Russia. Through her experiences as a registered nurse, lactation consultant, rising herbalist and mother, Natalia strives to honor and bring forth the generational wisdom and traditions carried by women.

    Natalia graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in 1999 and she subsequently worked as on obstetrical Registered Nurse in New York City for 11 years. During that time, she completed a dual Masters in Public Health and Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University.

    Her first son was born in 2009 via cesarean section. She was committed to and successful in exclusively breastfeeding him. In 2010, upon relocation to Pittsburgh, Natalia was fortunate to work at The Midwife Center (a free standing birth center) where she was able to clearly observe the connection between natural childbirth and successful breastfeeding. This inspired her to make breastfeeding the focus of her public health work. Natalia earned her IBCLC in 2011 and interned at The Breastfeeding Center of Pittsburgh until the birth of her second son, a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) with a midwife. Natalia tandem nursed her boys. Natalia was awarded the Hillman Family Foundation Fellowship for Innovation in Nursing in 2013 in support of her work towards increasing the rates of exclusive breastfeeding among newly immigrate Hispanic women in Winchester. In 2014, Natalia joyfully welcomed her third child at home with Ten Moons Midwifery. Natalia completed the Foundations and Apothecary courses with the Green Comfort School of Herbal Medicine in 2018 and 2020.

    Natalia affirms that breastfeeding is a fourth 'trimester' or the natural continuation of giving birth and is a very potent time for a woman to recognize and rise in her power.