Penelope is a Licensed Midwife with the Medical Board of California and Washington State Department of Health. She holds a Certified Professional Midwife through the North American Registry of Midwives. She is a certified birth doula since 2001 and worked on the PACE LABOR study at Harvard University where she assisted births at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's hospital between 2002 and 2005. ​Penelope has a Bachelor of Arts in Design and returned to University to study Graduate Entry Nursing at Boston College. While in nursing school, knowing her commitment to home birth, Penelope realized nursing school to be training for hospital based care. She decided to move into an out-of-hospital education. She attended Maternidad la Luz, a MEAC accredited midwifery program, the only accredited midwifery school with integrated birth center in the country. Through her years of study she gained a passion for the power of nature and physiologic birth, how our birth shapes our attachment style,Vagal tone and adaptability in relation to the world. She has studied many anthropological aspects of birth and human microbiome, anatomy and physiology, psychology, homeopathy and Ayurveda as a life style.

She has enriched her conventional training with:​

Yoga meditation and pranayama, Vedic science:Ayurvedic health including birth and postpartum, Vastu shastra home clearing​​, Family Constellation work, Conscious mothering, Non-violent communication, Ancestral Healing, 5 Rhythms dance, \

Homeopathy and herbal studies

The Matrona Holistic Birth

Birthing from Within

Indie Birth

Sacred Birthing Doula: Birth and postpartum

Holistic Neonatal Resuscitation

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I am here to guide you through your pregnancy and birth.

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