Your Midwives


  • Certified Professional Midwife, Certified Nurse Midwife, Certified Lactation Counselor, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant

    Aimee has an abiding commitment to the field of maternal and infant health and has served expectant and postpartum families for twenty-five years. She is dedicated to providing respectful, compassionate and individualized care.

    Transformed by the experience of giving birth to her first child in 1996, Aimee embarked on the path to midwifery. She became a certified labor doula with Doulas of North America in 1999, while working toward her goal of becoming a certified professional midwife (CPM).

    Originally trained and certified in the Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth, Aimee taught Bradley classes for seven years before co-writing and teaching a holistic childbirth education curriculum for families seeking to give birth at home.

    Aimee completed her clinical midwifery training through apprenticeship with practicing midwives in Virginia and Louisiana. She received additional midwifery training in Senegal with the African Birth Collective, and in Tennessee with the The Farm midwives, before earning the CPM credential in 2009.

    The same year, Aimee co-founded Ten Moons Midwifery, a home birth practice that provides primary care of the well mother and newborn throughout the childbearing year. Over the years, Ten Moons Midwifery has offered a variety of community-focused programs to families across the Shenandoah Valley, including birth circles providing support and healing spaces to tell stories and ask questions, and an infant loss sewing circle connecting bereaved parents with one another.

    Aimee is also a midwifery educator, a clinical preceptor registered with the North American Registry of Midwives and Midwives College of Utah, providing training and apprenticeships for CPM students. She has been a panelist and speaker on the subjects of pregnancy loss, breastfeeding and midwifery care. During her time in NYC she served as a Clinical Instructor with Columbia University in the Science of Nursing Practice with Childbearing Families course.

    Aimee brings a deep interest in botanical medicine to her work. In 2009, she completed a nine-month apprenticeship in the art and science of herbal medicine with Kat Meier of Sacred Plant Traditions. She has led workshops in botanical medicine with an emphasis on the use of herbs for pregnancy, birth and healthy families.

    Aimee helps people successfully breastfeed, and when she was an accredited La Leche League leader from 2001 to 2019, she led monthly lactation support group meetings. Currently, she offers private lactation consultations.

    Aimee holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice in Midwifery and a Master of Science in Nursing from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on Visual and Critical Studies in Photography and Reproductive Health from Virginia Commonwealth University.

    After completing her MSN, Aimee worked as a labor and delivery nurse at Woodhull Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York serving childbearing families within the nation’s largest public health care system and at Refuah Birth Center, a freestanding birth center in Rockland County, under the umbrella of a Federally Qualified Health Center.

    In 2024 she earned the Certified Nurse Midwife credential, and returned to the Shenandoah Valley and homebirth midwifery care.

    Aimee is the mother of three breastfed children, each born under the care of midwives. 

  • Certified Professional Midwife, Registered Nurse

    Desiree attended her first homebirths in Eugene, Oregon (1994-1996) as labor support to friends receiving traditional midwifery care. From this foundational experience, authenticity has remained essential to her midwifery practice. She follows her Mexican maternal and paternal grandmothers as a seamstress and artist by creating birth-inspired textile art for birth workers on Etsy.

    Desiree trained in the apprenticeship model and earned a Certified Professional Midwife credential through the North American Registry of Midwives in 2009. She values birthing women of all cultures and participated in a midwifery internship assisting the mothers of Mboro, Senegal. As a CPM, Desiree has provided holistic midwifery care to rural homebirth families with Ten Moons Midwifery.

    In 2012, she participated in the Green Comfort School of Herbal Medicine's Foundations and Apothecary courses, deepening her relationship with medicinal plants. Committed to lifelong learning, Desiree earned a registered nurse credential in 2021, which she used to serve mothers of diverse and high-risk needs as a labor and delivery nurse. She will complete a Bachelor of Science in Nursing with James Madison University in the Fall of 2024.

    Desiree has worked with numerous Certified Professional Midwives and Certified Nurse Midwives to support women in achieving optimal birth outcomes in homes, birth centers, and hospital settings.

    She has volunteered in leadership roles for a grassroots birth advocacy group and her state midwifery organization. She has volunteered as a doula and childbirth educator with a crisis pregnancy shelter. As an RN, Desiree volunteers once a month at her community free clinic to assist women experiencing health disparities in receiving gynecologic care.

    Desiree is the mother of four children and grandmother of one, all born and breastfed under the care of midwives.