Hello! I’ve been a licensed midwife in Washington State since 2014, supporting lots of families, catching lots of babies, and partnering with lots of students. I’m really excited you are exploring this option for your care!

I believe in your power, your autonomy and your fervent desire to have a healthy, respectful birth. I practice with the deep trust that when parents are given unbiased information that they will choose exactly what is right for their family, and so informed, shared decision-making is a cornerstone of the care you will receive with me. I am humble and grateful for every family that entrusts me with their pregnancy experience.

I am a Health at Every Size (HAES) provider and celebrate your body!

I am a trauma-informed provider, and have a degree is psychoIogy and have spent hours upon hours in special trainings and certificate programs, to provide meaningful trauma-informed care.

I have experience - lived, in practice, and familial settings - with single parenthood, the LGBTQ+ community, polyamory/ENM famiiy dynamics, and neurodivergence.

I spent 25 years in the arts before I had my first kiddo in 2005 and everything changed. When I attended my first homebirth in 2007 my path was clear and I became a doula. I realized quite quickly that I wanted to be a midwife. I started on the path to become a CNM, and as a way of empowering me before going into the big medical system, I signed up for a training with Ina May Gaskin and Pamela Hunt at The Farm in Tennessee. Being on that land, and spending a week immersed in the art of midwifery, changed my trajectory and upon returning home, I immediately applied to Bastyr University to become a Midwife. 3 and a half years later I was a licensed midwife!

In addition to being a Midwife, I am the parent of two really weird and amazing (adult) kids. The three of us live with our 2 cats and a fluctuating population of foster kittens. We are an LGBTQ+ family, and my eldest child is Trans, teaching me daily new things about all of our gender journey! Also, parenting teens is a trip, y’all, but at least the cats don’t roll their eyes at me and they don’t call me bruh.

Hi! I’m Jessica, my pronouns are she/her. I am a military spouse coming to the area by way of California. I am an Assistant Student Midwife in Phase 2. I am a childbirth and babywearing educator, birth worker, mother, and someone deeply committed to the liberation, safety, and empowerment of Black & Indigenous birthing people.

I have been obsessed with pregnancy and birth since around the age of 7. I grew up watching “A Baby Story” on TLC, there was one home water birth that altered my perception of birth forever. The birthing body has always enamored me. I am continuously captivated by its capacity to shape shift through each stage of pregnancy and postpartum. The birth of my daughter in 2019 was the catalyst for my start in birth work. I had a very intimate home birth that went viral, and the virality of that made me aware of the gap in knowledge, resources, and access to options for Black birthing families. So, I decided to jump in headfirst to fill that gap and educate my community.

My lineage is filled with midwives, herbalists, and keepers of the land. And, I take that very seriously; this work is sacred to me. I have supported families in San Diego County as a birth and postpartum doula. I wanted to be more involved in the care of childbearing folx & their families, so I applied to midwifery school, and got accepted. It is my absolute honor to have the opportunity to support families through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. I have a deep reverence for the postpartum period, a special devotion to it, as so many families fall through the cracks in postpartum.

I am a lover of holistic healing, plant medicine, the outdoors, doggies, and biological normative parenting. I am so grateful to be joining the team. I hope to continue educating and supporting folx through their childbearing years and onward. I am into herbs, astrology, advocating, social and reproductive justice, showing love to folx through food, and a list of other things. It is my deep belief that midwifery is one of the pathways to our collective liberation. I am honored and excited to join you on this journey.

I can not fully express what it means to me to be a Midwife and support birthing people in the process of pregnancy, labor, and postpartum. This responsibility I hold very scared in my heart, because I know how life-shifting this experience can be. I have a beautiful full family with six children including one angel baby. I have experienced all types of birthing environments of homebirth, freestanding birth center, and hospital. I honor and value all birth settings and believe that ALL families should have a choice and information to make the best choice for them.

The art of Midwifery called to me at nine years old. Growing up I was always interested in the medical field and became a medical assistant in 2009 and worked my way to labor and delivery. However, I finally took up the mission starting my Midwifery studies at Midwives College of Utah in 2014. I have served families as a doula since 2014, student midwife since 2016, and birth assistant since 2020. All within the Greater Seattle area and was also a doula for a small time in North Dakota. I have been honored to already have supported 300+ families in this time...and growing!

It is my utmost pleasure to meet with families and help create a beautiful labor and birth experience. I am a very laid back, approachable, attentive and informative person. Informed choice is very important to me and I believe "knowledge is power." Birth to me is a normal and natural process and should be respected as such. I think there is nothing wrong with the quiet or loudness of birth. Everyone creates their own beautiful labor song.

Outside of the realm of birth, I LOVE to spend time with my family... visiting water, dancing, singing, sightseeing, road tripping, anything we can do together.

To reach out to Mercedes about care with her, visit her site at www.sbmidwiferycare.com

I’m Ari Perkins, a licensed midwife with an educational background in Psychology and Master’s degree in Midwifery, with a focus in herbal medicine, obtained from Bastyr University. I’ve been a birth worker for the past five years and have had the honor of attending over 100 births along the way!

As someone proudly from Tacoma, I was drawn to birth work through a deep desire to support my community, especially BIPOC and marginalized families. I believe everyone deserves compassionate, respectful, and empowering care throughout their pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journey.

In my free time I love painting, adding to my collection of oddities and taxidermy, and spending time with my fur baby, Drako.

I am a mother of four and sister to seven. I have lived in the Seattle area for 15 years and I’m still surprised at the number of surfaces covered in large quantities of moss. I am a DONA trained and certified Birth Doula through both DONA and PALS. I have been assisting Jenn and Mercedes for many many years now, and loving every minute of it! I bring my excitement and expertise to your birth, as well as my humor and deep sense of awe. It is my privilege to help you welcome a new member of your family.