What is a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM)?
Our midwives are trained healthcare professionals with a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, a Master’s degree in Nurse Midwifery, and provide comprehensive care during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. CNM’s specialize in natural, low-intervention birth and emphasize personalized, holistic, and evidence-based care for individuals and families.
Education
Most medical obstetric training focuses primarily on controlling risk, and 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
Accepting due dates from August- December 2025
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 5 years, and I’ve been so blessed to do this work.
I have a wonderful, supportive husband and blended family of 5 kids. When I’m not working as a midwife, I enjoy playing piano on the worship team at church, having deep conversations, and exploring God’s beautiful creation.
I’d love to have the opportunity to walk alongside you on this incredible journey!
Lindsay Lambeth, CNM, CBC
Accepting due dates from January 2026 and beyond
As a midwife my mission is to provide empowering, family-centered, and evidence-based care. For years I’ve walked alongside women through some of the most transformative moments of their lives first as a labor and delivery nurse and lactation specialist, and then as a midwife. I consider it such an honor!
After practicing hospital-based midwifery in Roanoke, I now support families in safe births in the out-of-hospital setting. I have seen countless times the strength of women, the beauty of birth, and the importance of autonomy. It is my joy to get to know each family I serve, to listen well, and to walk with you as you welcome your baby into your arms. I also enjoy providing well-woman, preconception, and problem visits when needed.
After facing our infertility diagnosis, my husband and I were blessed to finally welcome our daughter with the support and care of midwives. My experience longing for and waiting on our child, as well as my faith in Jesus, continues to shape the heart I bring to this work.
When I’m not attending births, you can find me in the garden with my daughter or tending to our animals on our little hobby farm.
I look forward to connecting with you to discuss the vision you have for your birth!
Meet the Birth Assistant
Sarah Barbeau, RN
I’ve been passionate about birth for as long as I can remember. For the past eight years, I’ve had the incredible privilege of serving families as a labor and delivery nurse—a calling I truly believe was placed on my heart. My greatest joy is partnering with laboring moms to help them have the birth experience they hope for. It is truly an honor to be part of such sacred moments, and it’s a beautiful thing to witness each woman finding her strength in pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period.
I’m a Roanoke native and feel so grateful to call this beautiful place home. When I’m not at work, you’ll usually find me reading, running, or spending time outside with my amazing husband and our two sweet kiddos.
I’m deeply thankful for the opportunity to walk alongside families during such meaningful seasons of life—and I hope each one feels supported, encouraged, and cared for every step of the way.
Sarah not only attends births as a birth assistant, but she also does an in-home 2-day postpartum/newborn visit providing breastfeeding support, PKU testing, assessments on mom and baby, and educational support. Sarah also teaches our Body Ready Method birth preparation class at the birth center.
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 wide scope of care. 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 for 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.
