Our Certified Nurse Midwives
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What is a midwife?
A midwife is a trained healthcare professional who provides comprehensive care during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. Midwives specialize in natural, low-intervention birth and emphasize personalized, holistic, and evidence-based care for individuals and families.
Education
Most obstetric training focuses primarily on managing complications and abnormalities. Midwifery education specializes in supporting normal physiological birth while recognizing deviations that require intervention. This means we're experts in helping birth unfold naturally, yet always observing and assessing to identify if medical assistance or intervention is needed.
Meet the Midwives
Heather Soper, DNP, CNM
My goal is to create a nurturing, empowering, and safe birthing experience where families feel heard, respected, and supported every step of the way. I believe in the strength of the human body, the power of informed choice, and the beauty of birth.
I have over 17 years experience in the labor and birth profession, serving first as a labor and delivery nurse for 7 years, and then as a nurse midwife for the last 10 years. After attending births in the hospital for 6 years, I had a life changing experience giving birth at home. This experience led me into providing families with home births for the last 4 years, and I’ve been so blessed to do this work.
I’d love to have the opportunity to walk alongside you on this incredible journey.
CNM- coming soon!
We believe in honoring the normal birth process while ensuring a safe and empowering experience for every family. Our goal is to create a nurturing space where birth unfolds naturally, with expert care and loving support.
How we are different
Certified Nurse Midwives (CNM’s) provide a wider scope of care as compared to Certified Professional Midwives (CPM’s) or Licensed Midwives (LM’s). CNM’s are licensed Nurse Practitioners in Virginia and can prescribe medicine when needed, have strong collaborating relationships with local doctors and hospitals when consults or transfers are needed, and are recognized by insurance companies for out-of-network insurance reimbursement. CNM’s can also care from women across the lifespan- from age 12 to 99. This means that the midwife who cares for you during your pregnancy and birth can care for you afterwards, for years to come. We value the continued relationship we get to have with our clients.
