Grace Midwifery offers women, and their families, both home and cottage birth in the Shenandoah Valley.
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Doran Richards, Denyse Phelps, Morgan Williams, and Clare Muczynski are all deeply passionate about supporting growing families and are excited to serve you at Grace Midwifery. Our goal is to build community and connection through maternity care. We, as a team, seek to provide each family in our care, with professional yet intimate relationships as we serve them through antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum. We strive to improve maternal and newborn outcomes for low-risk women. We believe that women and their families should be supported and empowered in their birthing experience. We offer informed decision making throughout the entirety of your care. We are committed and eager to serve women holistically, in mind, body, and spirit. The Midwives Model of Care is based on the fact that pregnancy and birth are normal life processes. The Midwives Model of Care includes:
Monitoring the physical, psychological, and social well-being of the mother throughout the childbearing cycle
Providing the mother with individualized education, counseling, and prenatal care, continuous hands-on assistance during labor and delivery, and postpartum support
Minimizing technological interventions
Identifying and referring women who require obstetrical attention
The application of this woman-centered model of care has been proven to reduce the incidence of birth injury, trauma, and cesarean section. Copyright (c) 1996-2008, Midwifery Task Force, Inc., All Rights Reserved.
10/24/2025
The 2025 Cochrane review on immediate and early skin-to-skin contact after birth highlights that further randomized controlled trials comparing skin-to-skin contact with ‘usual care’ are no longer ethical.
The findings show there is now enough evidence to make immediate skin-to-skin contact after birth the global standard of care, and as WHO already recommends skin-to-skin the standard of care, the authors argue that randomizing the separation of mother and newborn may no longer be justifiable.
A day in the life of clients, students, preceptor, office days, clinicals, paper signing, instrument cleaning, consults, etc.!
10/19/2025
“We pray they all take turns.“
This is something you might hear Midwives say in regards to due dates. People ask us what that means. Well we just had three babies in three days, that’s what it means! “Thank you” to all the moms and babies who took turns!
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Welcome to this little precious girl who made a speedy entrance this morning!
10/18/2025
Such a cutie born this morning, his parents are a great team! Two births, in two days, now a nap.
10/17/2025
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We had the honor and the pleasure of welcoming a new little baby girl Earthside this morning at 3:13 AM! We’re excited for all of our families getting ready to welcome a new family member this month. We like to post images like these to show the world, the public, that this is what birth can look like for a low risk healthy mama!! This never gets old to witness- and the stars when we left witness to our beautiful Creator and his design for women and babies.
10/16/2025
Wonderful fall day doing what we love!
10/13/2025
We are so glad to have you join us! ** Midwives Special Guest List Coming Soon ** Come and pay homage and give honor to some of our finest examples of midwifery! We will gather over light refreshments as we gather around our elders to hear their stories and gain wisdom about the calling of midwifery...
10/12/2025
Just putting here to look at later.
Even accounting for possible bias and data collecting errors, the differences here are chilling.
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Doran, Miriam and the students at Grace Midwifery have been serving women and their families in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia for many years. She has had her practice since 2012. Serving women through childbirth and postpartum is a calling that she believes is a ministry. Grace is in abundance here... call us for a free consultation today! [PC Chelsea Maree Photography]
We now have donation link, if you want to share with family and friends to donate to your maternity care bill: www.venmo.com/midwifedoran
The Midwives Model of Care is based on the fact that pregnancy and birth are normal life processes.
The Midwives Model of Care includes:
Monitoring the physical, psychological, and social well-being of the mother throughout the childbearing cycle
Providing the mother with individualized education, counseling, and prenatal care, continuous hands-on assistance during labor and delivery, and postpartum support
Minimizing technological interventions
Identifying and referring women who require obstetrical attention
The application of this woman-centered model of care has been proven to reduce the incidence of birth injury, trauma, and cesarean section.
Copyright (c) 1996-2008, Midwifery Task Force, Inc., All Rights Reserved.
