Lorri owns Highland Midwife Birth Services and Silver Sage Herbal Tinctures in Goldendale, Washington. She is a direct-entry midwife with over 20 years of birthing experience, who has completed both the national midwifery certification and the Washington state requirements for practicing midwifery, and received her Washington license in March 2008.

Her formal education includes a degree in Pre-Med Biology, undergraduate study at Seattle Midwifery School, and graduate study at Midwives’ College of Utah which will soon result in a Masters of Science in Midwifery. Her areas of midwifery research are primarily in nutrition during pregnancy, and she is developing her PhD research study on perinatal Omega-3 and Vitamin D therapy.

Other education and experience includes Emergency Medical Technician Basic, IBLCE Professional Lactation Educator, DONA Labor Support, ICEA Childbirth Educator, and massage/physiotherapy specializing in pregnancy and injury rehab with licensure as an LMT, LMP, and ICMTBP international certification.

Lorri has been appointed as an Adjunct Assistant Instructor for the northwest branch of A.T. Still University of Osteopathic Medicine, and approved as a preceptor for several other colleges and training programs, including Birthingway College of Midwifery in Portland Oregon, Midwives College of Utah, Birthwise Midwifery School in Maine, and the Association of Texas Midwives. She is passionately dedicated to training new students to be excellent care providers, who can carry on the unique skills of traditional midwives and herbalists as well as interact proficiently with all of the medical professions.

Her midwifery training took place in a wide range of settings, including out-of-hospital (home and birth center) births with several types of midwives and doctors, births in hospitals with doctors and nurse midwives, and clinical obstetric and gynecology care for thousands of women.

Lorri had all of her own 5 children out of hospital, and was a nursing mother for about 10 years; now she is a grandmother of 2. Her husband, a retired scientist, is her secret-weapon midwifery-support team, making her coffee and packing her car at 3:00 a.m. (with best wishes for the mother and a smile, no less!) when those births calls come in. They live in the foothills of the Simcoe mountains where she breeds a rare line of Arabian horses that she has preserved for over 30 years.

The lovely young woman on the left is the first baby she delivered for someone else in 1987.

Lorri is usually assisted by Kristin (see below), and/or a student midwife in training.

To view Lorri's resume, click HERE.

Kristin owns Sunrise Midwifery in Prosser, Washington. She is a direct-entry midwife who has completed the Washington state requirements for practicing midwifery and received her license in April 2009. She is also a nationally Certified Professional Midwife.

Kristin's family are all directly involved in medicine, as doctors and nurses. She has traveled extensively, and is fluent in French and functional in Spanish. Her son was also born at home and breastfed.

Her formal education includes a BA in Anthropology from the University of Notre Dame in 1996, undergraduate study at Seattle Midwifery School and Lewis Clark State College, and a BA in Midwifery from Midwives’ College of Utah in 2009. Her areas of research included evaluating potential causes for the reduced incidence of Group B Strep in newborns in out-of-hospital births, compared to the higher incidence of infection in hospital settings.

Other education and experience includes IBLCE Professional Lactation Educator, DONA Labor Support, ICEA Childbirth Educator, and Natural Family Planning Educator (which she teaches for Sunrise Midwifery clients).

Her clinical training includes office experience with a family practice doctor, out-of-hospital births with homebirth midwives in Washington and Idaho, birth center births at Casa de Nacimiento in Texas, and hospital births in Idaho.

Kristin is available for women's health care and childbirth education at her office in Prosser, and home birth services throughout the Yakima Valley. She also travels south into Klickitat county to assist Lorri at births.

For more information, go to Sunrise Midwifery.

Rebekah owns Wild Rose Clinic in Kennewick - see her website.

She is a Nurse Practitioner and Certified Nurse-Midwife, and offers complete family practice medical care. After 12 years of hospital and birth center deliveries, we are delighted to report that she is now doing home births.

We mutually refer, so that I provide VBACs for her clients who need them, and Rebekah provides medical care for my clients who need it. We are also happy to attend births together if needed/wanted.

Ginger owns Blue Heron Naturopathic Clinic in Kennewick - see her website for more information about her education and specialites.

She is a family practice Naturopathic Physician and Licensed Midwife offering home birth services. Her practice includes both conventional medical treatment and traditional herbal medicines, with emphasis on patient education.

We mutually refer, and sometimes assist each other at births.

Fran is a Certified Nurse Midwife experienced in both hospital and home births, who has provided care for women in the area for decades.

She missed birthing too much when she tried to retire (and her clients missed her!), so she is available for Tri-Cities home births again on a limited basis, mostly for her previous clients.

Fran can be reached by EMAIL.

Shannon is a Certified Professional Midwife and has been a certified doula through the Association of Labor Assistants and Childbirth Educators since 2000. She is an advocate of natural birth and has been blessed to have participated in natural births in home, birth center and hospital settings. Her passion is to provide every birthing family an opportunity to experience a natural birth by providing education and support in both private and group settings.

"Even if birth becomes a daily occurrence to me, each birth that I attend is a once in a lifetime event for the family in concern, and as a midwife I vow to always treat it as such."   ~Shannon

Shannon is located in Tri-Cities, and can be reached by Email, or by phone at 509-308-3711. For more information see her website.

Marcile is a traditional home birth midwife with over 30 years experience, soon to be a CPM, who is located in Tri-Cities.

See her website The Happy Midwife for much more information about Marcile, her services, and how to contact her.

PJ is a traditional home birth midwife specializing in VBAC, and Certified Lactation Consultant. She serves eastern Washington in the Lind area, and also owns Birth & Baby, which specializes in hard-to-find nursing bras and support products for breastfeeding mothers, La Bassine birth pools, essential oils, and other supplies.

She can be reached by Email.

Heidi is a Naturopathic Physician and Licensed Acupuncturist in Yakima - see her website for more information.

Dr. Robel is available for referrals for my clients. Her office is located at 307 S. 12th Avenue Suite #11. See MAP.

Heidi has also kindly made her office available on Fridays to midwifery clients in Yakima! For appointments with me (Highland Midwife) call Lorri at 509-250-2072, and for appointments with Kristin (Sunrise Midwifery) call 509-780-3330.

Shawna is a Naturopathic Physician in The Dalles - see her website for more information.

Dr. Hasel is available for referrals for my clients.

Her office is located at 818 West Sixth Street Suite #1. See MAP.

Adria is a midwifery student with a heart for nurturing women throughout pregnancy and childbirth. She began formal midwifery studies in January 2011 with the Association of Texas Midwives. Adria completed DONA doula training in 2002. She has attended hospital births since 2002 and home births since 2008.

Some of her experiences include volunteering to care for women at pregnancy centers in California and Hawaii between 1998 and 2002. During that time, she also assisted/mentored single women at Heritage Home through their pregnancy and childbirth experiences.

She lives in Stevenson, WA with her husband and three children born at home (with the exception of one transfer). She is attending births in the Gorge as a student midwife in training with Lorri, and is a great asset to the practice.

Soon after her third child was born at home with us in November 2009, Brittany began assisting us at births, and took Midwifery Assistant Training in Genesee, ID with midwife Nancy Draznin in May of 2010. Her first babies (now age 6 and under) were born in a birth center and hospital, and her fourth is on the way and will be born at home with us again in June 2012! I think she is our best advertisement, effectively promoting breastfeeding, midwifery care, and home birth everywhere she goes.

Brittany loves being a stay-at-home, home schooling, cloth-diapering, "normal-length" breastfeeding, home birthing momma. She is considering someday becoming a midwife, but currently loves assisting Lorri and Kristin and is also passionate about helping and encouraging mothers around her community during pregnancy, birth, post-partum, and breastfeeding. If you are birthing with us in the TriCities area, you may be lucky enough to get Brittany as an Assistant!

Layla is a D.O.N.A. trained birth doula since 1999. She received her professional doula training at Seattle Midwifery School. She has been attending home and hospital births for 13 years. She worked as an assistant midwife in Central Oregon at Heart 'N' Hands Midwifery assisting at home births for just shy of 2 years. She also has her certification in Phlebotomy. She became a doula to empower and teach women to trust their bodies, before and during the normal birth process.

She has lived in the Tri-Cities area for 2 1/2 years. She lives with her husband and has 7 children, and 2 very cute purebred Dachshunds. She has experienced home and hospital births with her children. You can email Layla or phone 509-591-7035.

Brandee attended her first birth as a doula in 2001 in an off-grid yurt in Homer, Alaska. The complete normalcy of birth was astounding and captivated her. She attended many more births as a doula until finding an apprenticeship with a midwife at a busy free-standing birth center in Soldotna, AK in 2007. While there, she delivered her eldest daughter and moved shortly after to be closer to her husband's family in the Tri-Cities. Since relocating here, Brandee has been assisting at births for Ginger Frazer and Shannon Bennett. Since the home-birth of her youngest daughter in the fall of 2010, Brandee has been taking a break from assisting and enjoying family life. She plans to return to assisting when the time is right for her family and herself.

Jessica Burden
Postpartum Consultant, Infant Care Educator,
Lactation Support, & Placenta Preparation Specialist

Jessica originally trained as a postpartum doula. Over the years she saw her practice transform into assisting with more specific needs outside of the doula's scope. She is now a self-proclaimed Postpartum Consultant offering education in all things "baby" and mother recovery. Special areas of experience are breastfeeding, sleeping, and baby wearing. In addition to consultations, Jessica is a trained placenta preparer. She offers families a convenient choice for preparations such as encapsulation. Jessica follows strict safety protocols and supplies all necessary equipment. Find more information about Jessica and her offerings at DabbleFly.