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Chapter Members -- Birth Professionals

The following women are birth professionals who serve the Washington DC Metro Area, and are ICAN professional subscribers. They are, therefore, supportive of ICANs mission to improve maternal-child health by preventing unnecessary cesareans through education, providing support for cesarean recovery, and promoting Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC).

  • Tammi McKinley, LM, CPM
    Northern Virginia Midwifery, PLLC
    E-mail: tammi@novamidwife.org
    Telephone: 571-318-6136
    Website: http://www.novamidwife.org
    Services: Providing a full range of traditional midwifery services and resources for the Northern VA homebirth community. Tammi is also a homebirth after cesarean (HBAC) mom and understands through experience the VBAC journey.


  • Heidi Morefield, M.Sc., ICPFE
    Janma Birth
    E-mail: heidi@janmabirth.com
    Telephone: 202-445-1840
    Website: http://www.janmabirth.com
    Services:
    • Birth Doula
    • Natural Childbirth classes
    • Pre-&post-natal yoga

  • Loralee Pendergast
    Birthing from the Heart Maternity Services
    E-mail: klaerj@verizon.net
    Telephone: 703-779-2945
    Website: http://www.birthingfromtheheart.com
    Services: Childbirth Education
    Birth Doula
    Post Partum Doula


  • Kelly Valceanu
    E-mail: breastmilkrocks@hotmail.com
    Telephone: 703-629-1237
    Services: Bradley CBE
    Birth Doula
    LLL Leader


  • Katy Vega
    Life Streams Eternal
    E-mail: kvega95@ccnh.edu
    Website: http://lifestreamseternal.com 38629 Liebchen Lane
    Leesburg, VA 20175
    540-338-6563

    Services: classes in childbirth education, herb walks, introduction classes in Naturopathy, private Naturopathic consultations, Ki Method (www.kinginstitute.org) treatments, doula/childbirth assisting, and nutritional consulting.


  • Lindsey W. Vick, CH
    Sunflowers Healing and Wellness, LLC
    E-mail: Lindsey@SunflowersHealingandWellness.com
    Telephone: 703-489-0754
    Website: http://www.SunflowersHealingandWellness.com
    Services: Experience emotional and physical wellness through hypnotherapy. Specializing in the needs of women during their childbearing years, Sunflowers Healing and Wellness can help you release damaging anger, anxiety and fear and help prepare you for your vbac and/or heal you from your cesarean birth. Also offering hypnobirthing classes for expecting moms. Lindsey is also an ICAN member and an HBAC mom. Special rates for ICAN members!



  • Jenn Whitaker
    Company name: Jenn Doula
    E-mail: jenn.whitaker@gmail.com
    Telephone: 571-278-8467
    Website: http://jenndoula.com/
    Services:
    • Birth Doula

    • ICAN Co-leader

    • TENS Unit for labor

    • Homeopathy for labor and birth



  • Camilla Yrure

    E-mail: info@revelbirth.com
    Website: http://www.revelbirth.com
    Telephone: 703-209-2869

    Services: r e v e l birth services provides birth and postpartum doula support to families in Northern Virginia and the Washington DC Metro area.

    Specialized training or previous experience:
    • Teens
    • Over 40
    • Families conceiving with ART and IVF
    • VBAC
    • Home Birth
    • Clients on bed rest
    • Same sex couples
    • Postpartum mood disorders
    • High risk
    • Single parents
    • Waterbirth

    Special services available:
    • Placenta encapsulation
    • Acupressure and/or acupuncture in labor
    • Henna belly designs
    • Cloth diapering education
    • Elimination communication education
    • Babywearing education
    • Baby-led weaning
    • Pregnancy, birth and/or newborn photography
    • Sibling support (for your older children at the birth)
    • Antepartum doula



  • Disclaimer: ICAN's Professional Subscriber Network is intended as an informational resource for consumers. ICAN is pleased to pass along the names of professionals who have given us permission to release their names for referral. Please understand that ICAN is not a credentialing agency or a regulatory body. As such, we are not responsible for the competency of the professionals listed. Consumers are encouraged to take responsibility for their birth experience by informing themselves regarding the competency of those professionals that they retain. Asking questions, obtaining local references and understanding that you are responsible for your own choices by thorough reading and discussing care with other parents and care providers is essential and is your responsibility.

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