Fairbanks Midwives at Interior Womens Health

03/11/2026

03/11/2026

03/06/2026

Behind the scrubs, our providers value friendship, movement, and self-care.

Our midwives recently spent some time working out together and supporting each other outside the clinic. Taking care of ourselves helps us show up with energy and compassion for the patients we care for every day.

We love seeing our team support each other both inside and outside the clinic.

How do you like to recharge?

03/02/2026

Join our wonderful IBCLC Alison Munoz for the Successful Breastfeeding Class tomorrow from 5:30-7:30 at Fairbanks Children’s Museum. Alison has been donating her time to teaching this class for several years and she will get you off to a great breastfeeding experience. Our class is always free and open to all prenatal families! Regular Baby Cafe services will take place as normal at the same time.

02/28/2026

02/08/2026

❤️Going red for women’s heart health ❤️

Heart disease is the #1 cause of death for women, yet so many don’t realize they’re at risk.

This month is about awareness, education, and action:
❤️ Know your numbers
❤️ Learn women’s heart attack symptoms
❤️ Support the women around you

Wear Red Day: Feb 6
Put on red, share this post, and help keep the conversation going.

Your heart matters.

01/27/2026

Our family nurse practitioner colleague Misty Holacka provides excellent primary care!

01/23/2026

Certified Nurse Midwives play an important role in women’s healthcare, offering personalized, supportive care through pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond. At Interior Women’s Health, our midwives provide attentive, patient-centered care focused on helping individuals feel informed, supported, and cared for every step of the way.

01/07/2026

It’s a new year, so time for a new you!

Schedule an appointment with our family nurse practitioner, Misty Holacka, FNP-BC! She is approachable, listens, and collaborative. She will work WITH you to develop a personalized and effective care plan that meets your healthcare goals!

01/06/2026

Get screened for cervical cancer by any of our awesome providers!

OBGYNs: Dr. Karl Baurick, Dr. Doris Heilman

Nurse-practitioners: Amy Lasher, Misty Holacka

Nurse-midwives: Tanya Ignacio, Kristina Amundson, Allison Horner

12/17/2025

We love our new family nurse practitioner, Misty Holacka, FNP-BC! She is approachable, listens, and collaborative. She will work WITH you to develop a personalized and effective care plan that meets your healthcare goals!

10/27/2025

With Halloween approaching, I was contemplating the historical association between midwives and witches. While doing a little research, I came across this 2019 blog post by Lilian Climo for the International Museum of Surgical Science, titled “A Note from the Collections: Midwives and Healers in the European Witch Trials”.

I found the following excerpt to be interesting:

“Among the many surprising and seemingly unreasonable reasons women could be tried and killed as witches, was their role as a midwife or healer.

This fact may be shocking, as today we perceive midwiving to be a positive career. What could be so wicked about helping safely deliver babies, or using herbal remedies to alleviate the pain of childbirth? However, it was likely the employment of plant medicines that posed the biggest issue for the Catholic Church during this time. For instance in Western Europe, midwives often used belladonna, deadly nightshade, and ergot ,a fungus which grows on rye, during the labor process (Lang). These remedies seemed to be generally effective in easing some of the suffering of childbirth, yet, the church likely perceived any attempt to assuage this pain as a violation of God’s wishes (Ehrenreich and English).

Major European churches enforced the belief that pain during childbirth was punishment for Eve’s Original Sin (Ehrenreich and English). Therefore, ameliorating the pain of delivery could have been equated with witchcraft. “

A Note from the Collections: Midwives and Healers in the European Witch Trials. Ramirez, Eduardo, Colombian Surgery: Ovariectomy, 1954. IMSS