OHMI Midwives

08/08/2025

Feeding your baby comes with endless questions (and even more opinions).

Our interactive prenatal breastfeeding class will give you the knowledge and confidence to start strong based on your own goals and priorities. Learn how to build a healthy milk supply, master latching techniques, care for your newborn, and so much more.

Saturday, August 16th
10am-12pm
1 Turtle Creek Circle Suite B
Swanton, OH 43558

Spots are limited. Sign up here: https://intakeq.com/booking/ibaebj

08/07/2025

At we follow established best practices -which include community standards of care, up-to-date evidence-based information, resources, practice protocols, and guidelines. We are committed to applying informed decision-making for antenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum midwifery care, as well as newborn procedures. Informed decision-making is implemented with clients receiving verbal and written information regarding all pregnancy, birth, and newborn-related screenings and treatment. We provide ample opportunity to share our recommendations, and for clients to ask questions -we spend about an hour with each client at every appointment. Clients can choose or decline standard recommendations and sign informed choice documents indicating their preferences. At OHMI Midwives, we understand that each mom and baby dyad is unique.

✨If you are pregnant and inquiring about homebirth midwifery services, and you live in the Toledo area (within 60 miles) please complete our online inquiry form. 💕

​

08/07/2025

About OHMI Midwives
An Individual-Mother-Centered Approach
OHMI Midwives have established business practices according to the Midwives Model of Care (cfmidwifery.org). Each midwife on staff is a licensed professional midwife, having completed an extensive didactic and hands-on apprenticeship, passed the National Professional Midwife Certification exam through the North American Registry of Midwives, maintain active membership and involvement in state midwifery organizations, and participate in extensive continuing education practices to maintain their credentials.

We provide traditional midwifery care with access to modern clinical services for low-risk, healthy individuals throughout the childbearing years. Autonomy and informed decision-making are hallmarks of our midwifery care.

#

08/07/2025

Michele DeMeo LM, CPM, RCS, LMT
DBA: Shelly Varelli
Shelly Varelli is a Licensed Certified Professional Midwife serving Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan.
​​Shelly is the mother of three children and has worked with pregnant people as a doula, childbirth educator, midwife assistant, and licensed massage therapist for over 20 years.
“My hope is to offer well-rounded care that pulls on the collective knowledge from all of my prior experiences working in emergency medicine, as a professor of cardiovascular testing, a registered sonographer, bodyworker, and years of studyingalternative/holistic lifestyle and parenting practices”. ​
​
Shelly continues to actively offer massage therapy, energy healing, or other birth-related services including placenta encapsulation in the Toledo area.

08/07/2025

Lisa Baldwin is a Licensed/Certified Professional Midwife serving Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan. “I have over 25 years of childbirth, breastfeeding, and holistic mothering experience. I have extensive knowledge and experience in fertility awareness and ecological breastfeeding”. Lisa is a mother of sixteen children, 15 of them (including one set of twins!) were born at home with the support of an amazing midwife. “
It is my hope to offer the same kind of support that I was blessed with throughout my childbearing years. I am an advocate of woman-to-woman support. I believe it is our duty to pass our experiences down from one generation to the next.

08/07/2025

Mommy Postpartum Massage by Midwife and Massage Therapist 💕 You deserve it!

✨💕✨Schedule a massage or buy a Gift Certificate for a prenatal or postpartum session here:

Direct link for online scheduling:
https://midwifery-massage.square.site/
Toledo Pregnancy Massage & Midwifery Care | Shelly Varelli Holistic Birth Services

08/06/2025

07/30/2025

If y’all don’t already know, we geek out over research that includes OOH providers/community midwives.

We have extensive practice guidelines that inform how we practice. Check out the latest updated guide guidelines for intermittent auscultation of fetal heart rate in the community birth setting.

“Consensus Guidelines for Intermittent Auscultation in United States Community Birth Settings” (Akerson, S., Bradbury, S., Davis, R., Gordon, W., Romano, A., Scholles, H., July 4, 2025). https://doi.org/10.1111/birt.70002

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/birt.70002?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwL3D99leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHp1c2j_ECl_q1pL6GqNkf3p7wF72ZWs3BA65we-Rvx3q5A8pfIyCnN0n-zcO_aem_TCHKi55gDrRuynxGF3Cm2g nes m

Background Intermittent auscultation is the gold standard for fetal assessment in uncomplicated pregnancies and labors and is used universally in the community birth setting. Great variation exists ...