Midwifery

Mayo Clinic is thrilled to be celebrating 25 years of midwifery service in 2022! The Certified Nurse-Midwife team provides care throughout the Midwest as an integral part of the Obstetrics and Gynecology team.

Our midwives are advanced-practice providers with specialized training, education and certification in obstetrics and women's health. Nurse midwives care for women from early adolescence through the onset of menopause, including prenatal and birth care. Just like physicians, they are qualified to prescribe and administer medications as independent, licensed practitioners. Midwifery care focuses on providing holistic, evidence-based medicine and encouraging women to make informed decisions about their health care.

Midwives primarily provide care for low to moderate risk pregnancies while also providing support to all patients receiving care at Mayo Clinic. Midwives manage patients with gestational diabetes, advanced maternal age, obesity, miscarriage, hypothyroidism and patients with a history of cesarean birth. Midwives collaborate and consult with their physician colleagues as needed when high risk conditions arise.

Midwifery care is available at a variety of Mayo Clinic locations throughout the Midwest. Delivery sites are available in Southeast Minnesota, Southwest Minnesota, Northwest Wisconsin and Southwest Wisconsin in the Mayo Clinic Health System. Prenatal care provided in Rochester is available for local and destination maternity patients. Within the Rochester practice, midwives manage patients on the Owl, Loon and Sparrow teams including through the Early Pregnancy Clinic.

Meet the Mayo Clinic Midwifery Teams:

• Rochester
• Southeast Minnesota
  • Austin
  • Ellsworth
  • Owatonna
  • Red Wing
  • Zumbrota
• Southwest Minnesota
  • Mankato
  • New Prague
• Northwest Wisconsin
  • Eau Claire
• Southwest Wisconsin
  • Arcadia
  • La Crosse
  • Onalaska
  • Tomah

Meet the Rochester Midwifery Team:

Miriam (Miri) Levi, CNM, FNP-BC, WHNP-BC, IBCLC, MBA 

Midwest Director of Midwifery

Loon/Owl Team

Special interest in breastfeeding management, innovation in obstetric care models, doula support, primary care, and telemedicine.

 

 

Candi Anderson, CNM

Hospitalist Midwife

Cardinal Team

Special interest in midwifery hospitalist care, excellence in quality and patient safety, and group prenatal care.

 

 

Madeline (Maddie) Baloga, CNM

Hospital and Clinic Midwife

Owl Team

Special interest in doula support, perinatal substance abuse, and diversity and inclusion in obstetric care.

 

 

Jennifer Benson, CNM

Clinic Midwife

Bluebird Team

Special interest in complex care and high risk pregnancy, preconception management, infertility, and LGBTQ+ care.

 

 

Tracey Boldon, CNM

Hospitalist Midwife

Cardinal Team

Special interest in midwifery hospitalist care, excellence in patient safety, and quality metric tracking and reporting processes.

 

 

Anna Calhoun, CNM

Hospital and Clinic Midwife

Owl Team

Special interest in trauma informed care, midwifery education, mindfulness based childbirth and parenting support, and diversity and inclusion in obstetric care.

 

Kara Fairbanks, CNM

Hospital and Clinic Midwife

Loon Team

Special interest in excellence in patient safety, diversity and inclusion in obstetric care, and evidence-based midwifery care.

 

DeAnna Griebenow, CNM

Hospital and Clinic Midwife

Loon Team

Special interest in evidence based patient-centered midwifery care during labor and birth, midwifery and resident education, and nitrous oxide treatment for pain management during childbirth.

 

Julie Lamppa, CNM

Clinic Midwife, Lead Provider for the Early Pregnancy Care Clinic

Sparrow Team

Special interest in early pregnancy loss, medical author and editor, learner education, outpatient-based quality initiatives, and incorporating appropriate midwifery care into high risk pregnancies.

 

 

Leah McCoy, CNM

Hospital and Clinic Midwife

Owl Team

Special interest in excellence in quality and patient safety, peer reviewer, outpatient cervical ripening, postpartum hemorrhage management, and obstetric emergencies.

 

 

Hannah Dettinger, CNM

Hospital and Clinic Midwife

Loon Team

Special interest in weight gain in pregnancy, midwifery and resident education, midwifery workforce recruitment, and patient-centered evidence based care.

 

 

Susan Skinner, CNM

Hospital and Clinic Midwife, Lead for Mindfulness Based Childbirth and Parenting Program

Owl Team

Special interest in stress and mindfulness in pregnancy, doula support, midwifery education, and non-pharmacologic pain methods in labor and birth care.

 

 

Rebecca Smith, CNM

Hospital and Clinic Midwife

Sparrow Team

Special interest in early pregnancy loss, providing safe transfer and prenatal support to patients planning an out of hospital birth, and obstetric research in rural health and obstetric risk management.

 

Information for midwives based in the Mayo Clinic Health System

The Mayo Clinic team includes a variety of learners including midwifery students who work with our midwifery team to care for our patients throughout their pregnancy journey. Learn more about the Mayo Clinic nurse-midwifery student program. 

 

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