Christina Owens, CPM, LM 

                  
I am a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) having completed the Commonwealth of Virginia requirements for professional practice as a Licensed Midwife (LM) in 2013. 

 I attended the Florida School of Traditional Midwifery in Gainesville, Florida, in the late 90's. I also completed an apprenticeship at the Birth Center of Gainesville and worked with homebirth midwives in FL and VA. Neonatal Resuscitation and CPR are part of my credentials as per requirements as a CPM and LM.

My experience includes many years of attending births in the home and birth center setting with a great deal of waterbirth experience.  I have also spent ten years working as a nurse in a family centered maternity office with several midwives and doctors.  I am especially interested in preserving vaginal breech birth as an option as well as vaginal birth after a cesarean.

It is my belief that pregnancy and birth are normal physiologic changes in a person's life span that are unique to each of us as well as their desires and wishes for that life changing event.  I feel it is your choice as to how and where you will give birth as well as who will attend you. How your baby is treated during this transition is equally important.

​I am the mother of 4 beautiful, grown women and grandmother to 6 adorable grandbabies:
2 grandsons and 4 granddaughters.

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June Byrd, Birth Assistant

I am a retired Licensed Midwife from Florida who joined the EVa Homebirth team in 2019.  I spent 11 years in private practice in Florida as in the Birth Center arena for several years. Previously, I was a Licensed Practical Nurse from the 1980's until midwifery school. Some of the places I have worked are L & D, Home Health, Family Practice, Pediatrics and Gynecology, just to name a few. Having graduated from the Florida School of Traditional Midwifery in the late 90's, I have attended hundreds of births in the Community setting.  I am a current Neonatal Resuscitation Provider and CPR certified.

I am the mother of grown children and the grandmother and great-grandmother to many!

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Midwifery Students: 

Kimberly Lane, RN, SM

I have always loved birth. I can still remember as a young child, renting medical textbooks from the library and reading them late into the night with a flashlight in hand. After graduating high school, this passion led me to nursing school. I graduated in 2017 and passed the NCLEX two months later to become a Registered Nurse. After those years spent in clinical rotations and studying traditional American medicine, I realized that while I had learned so much, it wasn't a path that I wanted to pursue any further. I felt continually more drawn to individualized care that was based in communities and a model of care where the client led the experience and their opinions mattered and were honored. This brought me to midwifery and, specifically, the path of becoming a certified professional midwife. I officially began my midwifery training in August of 2022 and it has been one of my greatest joys ever since. 

When I am not doing birth work, I enjoy mothering and homeschooling my three little ones (and one on the way!), restoring our 1920 farmhouse, growing our homestead, going on long walks with my husband, teaching classical ballet to my dance students, and continually implementing ways to add slowness, stillness, and simplicity back into our days.

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Breastfeeding Counseling 
​Placenta Encapsulation

Racheal Boyea-O'Brien, CLC

Racheal and Khali

Racheal is the mom of two, Joshua, age 8, and Khali, age 7. She is a Certified Lactation Counselor and a Boilermaker Apprentice at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. She has been offering breastfeeding support to others since the birth of her daughter and offers in-home, office and phone consultations for anyone needing breastfeeding support.  

Racheal has also been offering placenta encapsulation to our clients and others since 2017.

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