Motherwise Birth Center
The Bend, Oregon midwives at Motherwise Community Birth Center offer complete prenatal care, birth center or home birth, water birth, postpartum care, childbirth classes and craniosacral therapy for adults and infants.
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464 NE Norton Ave. Bend, Oregon 97701 (541) 318-6961
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Our Midwives
Nicole Tucker, CPM, LDM, Cranialsacral Therapist
Since 1996 Nicole has been serving women and their families of Bend and Central Oregon. Nicole is a graduate of the National College of Midwifery, a Certified Professional Midwife, a Licensed Midwife in Oregon, and the proud mother of three beautiful children. Inspired by a positive hospital birth experience during the 1994 birth of her daughter, Nicole became a Certified Childbirth Educator and Doula in 1996. After attending her first homebirth in January of 1997, Nicole felt a strong calling to become a midwife. She began training under a highly skilled midwife the very next month. Her passion led her to Casa de Nacimiento—a high-volume birth center in El Paso, Texas—where she was a midwife-intern in 1999 and 2002. The natural birth philosophy is an integral part of Nicole's own life; she had wonderful waterbirth's at home with her own sons in 2000 and 2003. In 2002 Nicole opened Motherwise Midwifery Service. In 2007 Nicole fulfilled her long-held dream to open MotherwiseCommunityBirthCenter, and care for the women and families in the community where she was born and raised. “My experience as a mother and midwife has only heightened my admiration of the birthing process and the strong women I am blessed to serve.”
Dana Johnson, CPM, LDM, BFW Mentor
Dana came to midwifery with a deep inner call to support and nurture women through pregnancy, birth and motherhood. Dana is a graduate of the National College of Midwifery, a Certified Professional Midwife and Licensed Midwife in Oregon. In 2004, Dana's path to midwifery began with an apprenticeship with Nicole Tucker. Dana committed to attending every prenatal visit, studied midwifery texts, went to midwifery conferences, completed DONA certified doula training and participated in many beautiful home and birth center births while finishing MidwiferyCollege. In 2006 Dana gave birth at home to her second child with Nicole, her husband, six year old daughter and a few dear friends. Dana has 2 beautiful daughters and feels very blessed by grace to have experienced two very different, yet amazing births. Dana currently teaches Birthing From Within childbirth classes at Motherwise and enjoys making herbal teas for women; “MamaLove Apothecary”, Prenatal and Postpartum Tea. Dana honors the individual right of passage each woman takes into motherhood. Dana would like to one day take her love and knowledge of midwifery into areas of the world in need.
Our Assistants
River Foss, Assistant Midwife
River Foss began her studies to become a direct entry midwife in 2007. River moved from her home in Wisconsin to attend Birthwise Midwifery School in Maine. While at Birthwise, River felt her academics and knowledge of maternity care finally fostered her passion of caring for pregnant women and their families. River is a graduate of Birthwise Midwifery School with a Bachelors degree in Midwifery, a Doula, and a Childbirth Educator. River believes above all, that women deserve maternity care that educates and empowers. Allowing women to advocate for themselves, their bodies, families and parenting decisions. River will be a Certified Professional Midwife and Licensed Midwife in early 2012.
Nicole Tucker, CPM, LDM, Cranialsacral Therapist
Dana Johnson, CPM, LDM, BFW Mentor
River Foss, Assistant Midwife