 |
|
|
|
Find an OMA Midwife
 |
Ri Teref-Ta CNM (RN/ADN, BA, MSN)
Ri Teref-Ta has been a nurse for 18 years. She has spent 12 years working in the hospital setting in Labor and Delivery, GYN, Newborn/Postpartum and Newborn ICU care. After having her first child at home, she applied to Frontier School of Midwifery and became a Certified Nurse-Midwife. She has been a CNM in a home birth practice for the past 7 years. She specializes in complimentary holistic care of pregnant women, normal newborn care and well-woman/family planning. Her philosophy is that birth is an empowering experience for each woman and health care should focus on self-reliance through nutrition and lifestyle changes. Ri now has 2 children, both born at home and practices midwifery at Community Midwifery Services, LLC.
website |
 |
Ruth Cobb, CNM, CPM
Ruth Cobb, Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM), Certified Professional Midwife (CPM), has been serving women and their families as a homebirth midwife in the Tulsa area since 1977. She begin her journey in midwifery in an apprenticeship with a traditional midwife at age 19. Already having her certification through the North American Registry of Midwives and the Oklahoma Midwives Alliance, she begin her formal education towards a degree in nurse-midwifery in 1997 and is now licensed by the State of Oklahoma as a Certified Nurse Midwife.
Ruth believes and supports the philosophy that pregnancy and childbirth are normal, natural events in a woman's life. She provides physical and emotional help through services of well-woman care, prenatal care, labor and delivery, and postpartum care.
website |
 |
Michelle Robidoux, CPM
Michelle has been providing home and birth center births in the metro area since 1993. She is the current owner and partner of Community Midwifery Service. Michelle holds the belief that birth is an instinctual gift that all women posses and hopes to help her clients find their untapped strengths through birth. Michelle is the current Educational Director of the OMA.
website |
|
|
Alice Sirmons, CPM
Alice Sirmons is a CPM with NARM and a Senior Midwife with OMA Inc. She has been doing home births in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas for over twenty nine years. She believes "God made women to have babies" and it has been her privilege to catch ten of her twelve grandchildren.
website |
 |
Gail Brown , CPM, ND
Gail Brown began her interest in midwifery in 1983. She completed an apprenticeship in Arkansas and the Association of Texas Certification program. Gail was a co-founder of the Oklahoma Midwives Alliance in 1985 and currently serves as OMA President, the 4th term. In 1996 she merited the National Certification of Certified Professional Midwife. 1998 completed the ND program in Trinity School of Natural Health. Gail is a partner at Community Midwifery Services in Norman, Oklahoma. Gail's role as a caregiver to women is to guard and educate, focusing on preventive measures. Birth is the act of creating and living that bring memories and impressions that last a life time. Home Birth is a safe choice for low risk women.
website |
|
|
Charlee Lacy, CM
Charlee Lacy offers midwifery care from her office in Edmond, Oklahoma. Charlee is currently a Certified Senior-Level Midwife with the OMA. She is presently serving as OMA Secretary for a second term, and is active in obtaining continuing education and certification on a national level.
Charlee believes that a woman's body is created to birth, as a normal part of life, and that babies can be birthed naturally and prayerfully in the comfort of one's home. She agrees that parents who are completely informed, and who participate in their pregnancies and births, have the best possible opportunity for a safe and joyful outcome. She works diligently to support and protect the normal birth process. Charlee is very grateful to have served women and families through the gift of midwifery since 1996.
|
 |
Yvonne Silbernagel, CM
Yvonne Silbernagel is currently a Senior Midwife at Community Midwifery Services in Norman, Oklahoma where she started in 2005. She is an active member of the Oklahoma Midwives Alliance, an organization in which she currently serves as President. Her devotion to natural childbirth began 14 years ago when she educated herself and became aware of the many advantages of natural childbirth and fought for her own intervention free birth. She then trained as a Doula (labor support person) when she saw that many of her friends were unable to attain their goal of natural childbirth. She then continued her journey and became a Monitrice (midwives assistant) and then eventually a midwife through the OMA Midwifery Program. She is currently in the process of becoming a Certified Professional Midwife. She has also explored new ways to help mothers in pregnancy, labor and delivery by educating herself in homeopathy, Bach flowers and cells salts. She feels that every mom should have the opportunity for the best birth possible in an environment where she feels secure and empowered.
website |
 |
Faith Morie, CPM
Faith Morie is a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) based in Tulsa, but she regularly takes clients within a 130 mile radius. Faith is the oldest of ten home-schooled children - seven of which her mother birthed at home, so her love and experience with birth and babies started at a very young age. She trained academically with the Association of Texas Midwives Midwifery Training Program from 2002 - 2007. During that same time, she trained clinically with 14 different midwives - some who worked in joint practices at birth centers, and some who were independent homebirth midwives. Faith appreciated the many styles and techniques she learned from the many talented women who trained her. After graduating and becoming a certified midwife, Faith spent seven months volunteering as a midwife in Israel - working with two Israeli home birth midwives, as well as in Labor and Delivery in a Jerusalem hospital and a Palestinian clinic. Since returning to Oklahoma, she has a private practice where she specializes in Waterbirth and VBAC's. She likes working with young mothers - educating and building relationships with them so that they can feel comfortable with their midwife, as well as confident in their ability to birth naturally. She also enjoys working with women from different national backgrounds, and feels privileged to have delivered babies from many cultures - including American, English, Mexican, Russian, German, Czechoslovakian, Israeli and Palestinian.
website |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
