Experience and training:

  • Graduate of the National Midwifery Institute
  • Eight years assisting/apprenticing in a busy homebirth practice
  • Lactation Counselor since 1980
  • Birth Matters columnist in Growing Up In Santa Cruz since 2001
  • American Red Cross CPR instructor
  • Co-founder and director of Birth Network of Santa Cruz County
  • Gave birth to, breastfed and raised three children (now adults) with my husband of over 30 years

 

Birth offers a rare opportunity for growth and empowerment – both as a woman and as a couple.  Welcome the experience, it will serve you well as parents.


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There’s nothing to compare with the birth of your child – not your wedding day, a trip to Hawaii, or a new car.  Be willing to give birth the same consideration of financial investment as those other special times.


 

 

 

Laura Maxson, LM, CPM

(831) 336-0961

midwife@scshop.com
By appointment on Mondays and Thursdays

Slide show from my 2009 midwifery trip to the Dominican Republic.

 

 

 

 

 

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