Joyce Nelson, CPM, RN
Joyce Nelson is a Certified Professional Midwife (2000), and a Registered Nurse (1984), who has attended over 400 births at the birth center and at home, and as the primary caregiver at over 100. She has taught childbirth classes and breastfeeding classes for over 23 years, and is certified in neonatal resuscitation, Basic Cardiac resuscitation, and Advanced Cardiac Life Support. Her hospital experience includes eight years in adult medical/surgical intensive care nursing and eleven years in general nursing.

Joyce has been married for 29 years. She successfully breastfed all four of her children, ages 25, 20, 16, and 15, and herself experienced both hospital births and a homebirth.

"I believe that labor and birth are a normal and natural occurence in a woman's life, best served by allowing the natural process to unfold without unnecessary intervention. Supporting and nurturing women and their families at such a unique and special time is my calling."

Kathleen Mayorga, CNM, RN
Kathleen Mayorga is a Certified Nurse-Midwife (1999) and a Registered Nurse (1989), with eighteen years as a nurse, and eight years as a midwife, catching babies in the hospital, birth centers and home births. She highly recommends using water for labor and has extensive experience with waterbirth.

"I felt a strong calling to become a midwife after giving birth to my own beautiful children. Having a natural birth was very important to me. I am the mother of four children and each of their births was empowering and life changing for me in a special way. I love being a mom!"

Delilah Ray, Childbirth Educator
Delilah Ray teaches the childbirth classes at Family Centered Maternity Care one weekend per month. She has been a CBE and doula since 2004, but a supporter and advocate for natural childbirth among her peers for many years.

"After a 'typical' medicated hospital birth with my first child, I was convinced that there had to be more to it than what I had experienced. With my second child, I chose an unmedicated birth at a birth center, and I was hooked. Finally, with my third child, I had a midwife-attended homebirth. If I could, I would labor ten more times, just for the sheer joy of it! Instead, I channel my love for the cycle of pregnancy, labor, birth, and babies into helping other women achieve the pleasure of a natural, empowering birth." For more information, see Delilah's website