Meet the Midwives
Lisa
I believe in “mothering the mother”!
- In a healthy woman, pregnancy is not a medical condition; it is a normal physiological body function. Most healthy women can enjoy birth out of the hospital.
- Birth can be the most transformative, empowering moment of you and your partner’s lives.
- Unnecessary interventions can interfere with the primal birthing instinct, altering important emotional and physical aspects of your birth. They can stall, complicate and necessitate further interventions, spiraling into an unwanted C-section. Unnecessary or disrespectful interventions can also create lasting emotional trauma for mother and baby.
- I believe in easing your little one into this world, into a quiet, loving, respectful environment.
As a young girl, my favorite toy was my nurse’s kit. I was fascinated by birth and wanted to help women deliver their babies. I can remember, at nine yrs old, wishing my mother’s pregnant friends would go into labor at our house so I could deliver that baby! And, even at that tender age, I was confident I could do it, and make the experience calm and supportive for the mother!
Years later I married and had 3 children of my own, giving birth naturally using the traditional Lamaze method in a hospital. This transformed me, progressively reigniting my passion to help other women with each birth. I acted as doula occasionally through the years, still pulled by birth, but focused at the time on raising my family, and other career choices. Finally, pursuing midwifery after my children left “the nest” was the realization of a life-long dream.
Every birth fills me with joy, wonder and gratitude. I am humbled and honored to be called into this incredible profession.
I’m a CPM (Certified Professional Midwife), LM (licensed in the State Of Texas), NNR and CPR trained every 2yrs, and continue to learn with CEU’s, conferences, workshops, avid reader and birth junkie!
Lisa
Jolene
I have been married to my best friend for the last 17 years and we have three beautiful children.
Jolene
Meet the Students
Sarah
I’m Sarah DiMarco from Fort Worth! My husband, Craig, and I have been married for 7 years and we have a blended family of 7 precious children; his, mine, and ours! He has two wonderful daughters, ages 20 and 12, I have a 9 year old
I have always felt called from the Lord to support and serve others and I believe that He has led me to this path. After serving families as a Birth and Bereavement Doula, a Placenta Encapsulation Specialist, and a Breastfeeding Educator since 2014, I began taking the steps towards Midwifery in September 2017, beginning an apprenticeship with my own midwife, and then beginning school in 2018. I have been blessed to apprentice with Lisa Riell and serve clients as a student midwife at the Nest since January 2019.
I am passionate about holistic care for women and babies and I believe that an empowering birth experience builds women up to be empowered mothers throughout their children’s lives. My goal is to complete my apprenticeship and academics to become a licensed midwife by 2021!
Sarah
