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Our Team

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Whitney Herrelson 

Certified Professional Midwife, Licensed Midwife 

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Whitney holds a Bachelors of Science in Midwifery from the Midwives College of Utah. She is a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) through the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM).

She is a Licensed Midwife with the state of Hawaii (MW-28).

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Whitney began midwifery training in 2012, and has attended clinical rotations around the country and US territories gaining experience in birth centers and homebirth practices. ​

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Whitney is a Neonatal Resuscitation provider through the American Heart Association.

See more about Whitney's education and experience here.

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Whitney has 2 children who were born at home.

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Alex Amey, RN, BSN

 

Alex is a bachelors certified Registered Nurse (RN-BSN), Women’s Health Herbalist, and student Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) at Georgetown University living in Maui, Hawai’i. Her journey began as a nursing student in 2015 at Regis University in Colorado where she became licensed as a Registered Nurse in 2019. During that time, she graduated as an Herbalist from Herbalism Roots and became a DONA Certified Doula trained in India. She served the Colorado state hospital - Denver Health - as a volunteer doula for those in need of free doula services. She then trained as a Labor and Delivery Nurse at Rose Medical in Colorado where she worked for 1 year before moving to Maui. In Maui, she settled into the community and began working as a Labor/Delivery nurse at Maui Memorial, in the OB Clinic as a nurse at Malama I Ke Ola, as a Hospice nurse at Hospice Maui, as well as a homebirth Midwifery Assistant at Maui Midwifery. She served thousands of birthing families over her years as a nurse and continues to bring integrative medicine into her homebirth practice. She later continued her herbalism studies through Aviva Romm and became a Women’s Health Herbal Educator. She enrolled in Georgetown University in 2021 pursuing her masters in Certified Nurse Midwifery (CNM) and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP) degree. She trained at Malama I Ke Ola Health Center  and with the Midwifery Group at Kaiser Moanalua in Oahu spending over 800 clinic hours in women’s health and prenatal care, catching 30 babies, and hundreds of on call hours attending to laboring people in the hospital setting.

 

She believes in providing supportive, empowering, and trauma informed care from womb to tomb. She birthed her first child at a home waterbirth in Maui in Febuary of 2024 which furthered her passion for supporting postpartum families and their right to choose their birth place. She is excited to bring an integrative holistic approach to homebirth midwifery care and is committed to serving the community of Hawai’i long term.

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Maui Midwifery has a consulting and collaborative working relationship with Dr. Nathan Riley MD FACOG, Beloved Holistics PCA

​Our Pholosophy of Care

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1. Midwifery care protects body autonomy, including individuals' human, reproductive, and sexual rights to choose where, how, and with whom one gives birth.

 

2. Care at Maui Midwifery is inclusive. We respect individual ethnic and cultural needs and we aim to be safe providers for LGBTQIA+ individuals. We practice with a Health at Every Size philosophy of size-friendly healthcare. We are commited to anti-racism in midwifery. We support individuals' religious and spiritual needs. 

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3. Midwifery care is client-centered. We believe that childbearing is a deeply individualized event in a person's life, and we recognize a person's lived experience and inner-knowledge as invaluable. Birthing people are experts in their own bodies and are therefore central decision makers when it comes to their care.

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4. Midwifery care is family-centered. Supporting and encouraging involvement of a person's designated family members and/or support people, to the extent desired, in all health care experiences promotes community-building and healthy relationships. 

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5. Midwifery care is low-intervention. The midwife's role is to hold space, provide guidance, and set perimeters for safety based on the best available evidence. We believe in non-intervention in normal processes, and appropriate use of interventions and technology for current or potential health problems. We are experts in non-pharmacologic pain relief measures. â€‹â€‹

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6. Midwifery care is trauma-informed care. Birthing people and families should be treated with loving respect during all aspects of pregnancy, labor, birth and postpartum period. By providng trauma-informed care we reduce toxic stress, improve the provider-client relationship, and promote healthy outcomes.

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Maui Midwifery follows the The International Childbirth Initiative (ICI)

12 Steps to Safe and Respectful MotherBaby-Family Maternity Care

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Learn more about the Midwifery Model of Care here.

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