Mary the Midwife, LM, CD (DONA), ICCE, DONA Doula Trainer
Mary’s personal knowledge compliments her vast experience. She has given birth to nine children having eight homebirths and one birth center birth with seven very different midwives providing her care.

Mary has attended over five hundred birthing women and has worked with eight licensed midwives and ten internationally certified midwives. Plus she has assisted numerous doctors, certified nurse midwives and nurses.

Her midwifery experience began in 1990 when she became a homebirth midwife assistant and she did that for almost five years.

She then became an internationally certified childbirth educator and she still teaches classes today.

From there she became a certified doula and doula trainer for DONA International and she continues to train doulas twice a year.

During her career as a doula she started the Arizona Doulas Organization & Birth Education Association, Inc. (ADOBE) and continues to oversee the whole organization as the President of the Board and is dedicated to serving women and babies.

Increasing the number of midwives and visibility of homebirth is her new passion. She currently is working on the board of directors of the Arizona Midwifery Institute, Inc (AMI) and is establishing a student midwifery program in Belize Central America.

Anne Marie Palzer, CPM, NMD Back-up Midwife
Dr. Palzer is a licensed naturopathic physician in the state of Arizona and a certified professional midwife with the North American Registry of Midwives, a national organization that certifies midwives and promotes midwifery in all 50 states.

Dr. Palzer's practice focuses on providing care for women and children throughout all stages of life. Her services include complete pre-natal and post-partum care based on a wholistic midwifery model, homebirth, pediatric care, and well woman visits using the most natural and effective treatment options available.

To learn more about Dr. Palzer visit her web site at www.annemariepalzer.com.

Shell Walker, CPM, LM Back-up Midwife
Shell Walker has traveled throughout the Americas and feels privileged to have learned from and to have studies with many indigenous  and conventional healers. Since 1985 her primary focus has been holistic woman's health. 

Shell's formal midwifery training was initiated 1993 through the traditional model of apprenticeship with Lynn Richards, an accomplished midwife, author, and activist. 

To round out her midwife experience, she has completed over 300 hours of clinical internship within birth centers and hospitals in Central America.

Thanks to this dynamic path, she have received hands-on instruction and training from traditional midwives, licensed midwives, certified professional midwives, nurse midwives, nurses and physicians.  Shell has attended births in urban settings, rural settings, birth centers and hospitals. 

Shell prides herself on her ability to offer her community midwifery service that merges the ethics of authentic midwifery with the clinical standards of professional care.

To learn more about Shell Walker visit her web site at www.themidwife.net.