San Gabriel Valley/ San Fernando Valley/Antelope Valley/ Greater Los Angeles/Santa Monica and Malibu

Leslie Stewart, CNM
Certified Nurse-Midwife
Catherine Williams, LM
Licensed Midwife
Homebirth Service of
Los Angeles
3959 Laurel Canyon Blvd., Ste. A
Studio City, CA 91604
818-760-6541
E-mail: hmbirth@hotmail.com

Individualized prenatal care and home birth, including water birth, well-woman gynecology and family planning by ACNM Board Certified Nurse Midwives.

Geeta Swamidass, M.B., B.S., L.M.
California Licensed Midwife
Licensed Physician, India
Birthing Care Center
2010 N. Tustin Ave. #D
Orange, CA 92865
Office: 714-637-9664
Cell: 714-726-4753
Fax: 714-633-4064
E-mail: doctorgeeta@yahoo.com

Geeta cares for the women and babies she serves as evidenced by the free clinics she has run for 18 years in Southern California. Available to patients are free consultations and pregnancy testing, low cost ultrasound and lab work and well-woman checks. Water births are no extra cost. Ob-Gyn hospital backup available. Having a medical background, Geeta is very well-qualified in taking care of emergencies. Her assistant is a licensed EMT and together they make a great team. Referrals for childbirth classes and nutritional consultation. References available upon request.

Lorri Walker, C.N.P., C.N.M.
Nurse-Practitioner, Certified Nurse-Midwife
South Coast Midwifery and Women's Health Care
4650 Barranca Parkway
Irvine, CA 92604
Phone: 949-654-2727
Fax: 949-654-2735
E-mail: info@southcoastmidwifery.com

South Coast Midwifery and Women's Health Care is Orange County's premier birth center, the oldest and most established of its kind. We have been servicing Orange and surrounding counties for over 12 years! Lorri Walker, the founder and director of South Coast Midwifery, is one of Southern California best known midwives. Lorri has created a warm, nurturing place for women and their families to come for personalized health care, support, empowerment, and social interaction with people of like mind. Birthing options include home, birth center and water birth. Our birth center if your home away from home; a soothing, refreshing environment. In addition to our rounded midwifery practice, we offer full scope gynecological care, in house childbirth education and lactation services, lending book and video library, doulas and an extensive referral network of complimentary health care professionals including, chiropractors, doulas, childbirth educators, pediatricians, massage therapists, and much more. We accept Medi-Cal and most insurances. Call today for your complimentary consultation! South Coast Midwifery is proud to announce South Coast Milk Bank, Orange County's first mother's milk bank! Donations will be made available to acutely premature newborns in need of healthy human breast milk. Call us at 949.231.9813 today for more information on how you can help by becoming a donor!

Shelly Girard, L.M., C.P.M., M.P.H.
California Licensed Midwife, Certified Professional Midwife, Master's in Public Health (Health Education)
Seannie Gibson, LM, CPM, LLC.
Licensed Midwife
Childbirth At Home, A Labor of Love
496 Rainbow Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90065
323-221-7822
Email: anahata@sbcglobal.net
URL: http://www.socalbirth.com/shelly/
Also see: Spotlight on the Practitioner: Shelly Girard

Shelly Girard, LM, CPM, MPH- has been offering wholistic prenatal care, well-woman gynecology and childbirth at home and has attended over 3000 births since 1972. Insurance billing available. She is licensed by the State of California and is a Certified Professional Midwife accredidted by the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM), and earned her Master's Degree in Public Health Education and Promotion from UCLA in June, 2000. With a focus on wholistic health care, her areas of expertise include nutrition, herbology and exercise physiology. She is a massage therapist certified by the Institute of Psycho-Structural Balancing. Shelly has practiced yoga for over 30 years and holds a black belt in Kenpo Karate from the International Kenpo Karate Association (IKKA). She has two grown sons, Chesed and Shawn, who were born at home.

Seannie Gibson, LM, CPM, LLC trained as an apprentice with Shelly Girard, and was certified as a Birth Assistant through The Association of Labor Assistants and Childbirth Educators and provided hospital labor support before obtaining her midwifery license. She was licensed as a midwife in 2002 by the California Medical Board. She is the mother of three home-born children.

For answers to your childbirth related questions, email us at info@socalbirth.com

Or call 626-388-2191

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