Meet the team

Midwives

Adrienne Brown

CPM, LDEM

Adrienne Brown is a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) and a Licensed Direct-Entry Midwife (LDEM) who provides modern, comprehensive, and expert care for people as they create and grow their families. She grew up on a farm in rural central New York and witnessed natural birth and natural living from a young age. When Adrienne sought out a midwife in 1995 to have a home birth for the first of her three children, Caleb, she was shocked at how medicalized and politicized the business of birth was, and how marginalized and misunderstood the practice of midwifery had become.

And that’s when she became a birth advocate.

Adrienne got involved in the political work of supporting informed choices for families, and founded grassroots consumer-based birth advocacy groups. She went on to study women’s studies and sustainable leadership at Goddard College and Prescott College, and midwifery at Maternidad La Luz in El Paso, TX, and has attended hundreds of births all over the country – from the South, to the East, and now in the West. She has served people in rural and intercity areas and from the process of family planning all the way through postpartum care. Her focus is sharp, and her experience is broad.

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Rachel Twelmeyer

CPM, LDEM

Having worked as a part of our team for several years, Rachel moved into the role of Staff Midwife in 2022. She is officially a “boy mom” with three young sons, all born at home with midwives. Rachel brings her gentle presence and reassuring calm to her work as a midwife.

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Sheryl Keating

DEM

Sheryl has been a part of our team for the last 5 years working as a Birth Assistant, which has allowed her to attend many, many deliveries, all while running a corporate business. She made the decision to change careers and take on the enormous task of midwifery education, and is very close to her goal of becoming a Certified Professional Midwife! Sheryl is passionate about being a part of the solution to a restrictive reproductive healthcare system, and believes that supporting families is one of the most important things we can do. Sheryl is a huge Utes fan, a lover of all pets, and a mother of two.

Staff

Savannah Easter

Student Midwife/Birth Assistant

Riley Kua

Front Desk/Birth Assistant

Kaitlin Kocherhans

Student Midwife/Birth Assistant/Facility Manager

After birthing her first baby at WMW, Kaitlin found her calling in midwifery. She has since worked her way up in the ranks to living her dream as a student midwife. Kaitlin is passionate about caring for mothers, maternal mental health, and providing support for families as they enter into new chapters of parenthood and life.

Kate Pitcher

Billing/Birth Assistant/ Placenta Encapsulation

Adrianna Costello

In Memoriam

Adrianna worked alongside Adrienne beginning in 2011 and played a key role in the creation of Wasatch Midwifery + Wellness. She was a certified childbirth educator teaching The Bradley® Method of Natural Childbirth since 1996. Her heart and soul resided in childbirth education, teaching parents how to navigate the USA’s broken maternity care system to get evidence-based, humane, compassionate birth care. Adrianna was a dear friend to many in the birth community, as well as countless new parents who were fortunate to experience her care and support. We miss her with our whole hearts every day.

Amber Sugden

Birth Assistant

Janessa Furness

Medical Assistant/Birth Assistant