The Midwives

Olivia Joy Kimble, LM, CPM, MSM

Owner, Midwife

Olivia’s approach to midwifery is leadership through shared goals: empower the client towards health, birth with strength and purpose, and parent through postpartum with endurance and love. Olivia is a focused, dedicated leader in midwifery aiming to bridge gaps of knowledge and understanding about birthing at home so that families and facilities can all equitably use time and resources to help achieve our shared goals of safe moms and babes.

Midwife

Melissa Moreland, LM, CPM

Melissa’s approach to care is rooted in deep presence, true informed consent, and unwavering respect for patient autonomy. She believes birth belongs to women and families—not to systems or policies—and is passionate about family-centered care that honors each person’s values, intuition, and choices. She deeply trusts normal physiologic birth and believes that healthy people are safest giving birth at home, protected from the cascade of unnecessary medical interruptions and interventions.

Olivia Joy Kimble

Olivia found midwifery through a winding path after graduating from college. She was working in a national arts non-profit but found herself spending more and more time volunteering at women’s clinics. Childless and idealistic Olivia and her husband, Teddy, quit their jobs in Minneapolis and drove out to start a new adventure in women’s health and tech in Seattle, WA.

While volunteering in a homeless youth clinic in Seattle, Olivia discovered one of the pregnant teens was working with a doula. From that moment on Olivia worked diligently to learn the art of labor support so that she could support and accompany families during a miraculous moment in their lives. Working as a doula for military families, she realized she needed to outgrow the doula role and become the leader in the room. It was also in WA that she attended her first home birth — a small and quiet event in a 1-bedroom apartment attended by a Somalian midwife. Compared to military birth in a hospital the home birth with a midwife felt like the right way to lead and support a family through birth.

Under the guidance and training of notable doulas and strong midwives, Olivia studied at Bastyr University to receive her Master’s in Science in Midwifery, with a focus on pelvic floor health in pregnancy. Beyond providing routine care, Olivia strives to enlist the client’s own skillset and motivation to embrace the changes and goals of pregnancy to prepare for a successful, empowered birth at home. She has also traveled and trained widely to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to safely support vaginal breech birth.

Olivia welcomed both of her babes at home under the care of midwives. Both her son and daughter are now skilled at labor triage after years of listening to phone calls from laboring families and are always eager to know if the baby born was a boy or girl and their new name! Her family also lives and works on an organically grown market garden vegetable farm, Pine Island Free Farm. You can find her and the whole family at the Rochester farmer’s market on most Saturdays!

Olivia Joy Kimble, LM, CPM, MSM

    • Licensed Traditional Midwife, Minnesota Board of Medical Practice, #1083

    • Certified Professional Midwife, North American Registry of Midwives, #CPM20100015

    • Master’s of Science in Midwifery, Bastyr University

    • Bachelor of Arts in Applied Math and History, Macalester College

    • Certified Birth Doula, DONA International

    • Childbirth Educator, Simkin Center for Allied Birth Professionals

    • When Survivors Give Birth, Simkin Center for Allied Birth Professionals

    • Physiological Breech Birth, University of British Columbia

    • Breech Pro Essentials, Breech without Borders

    • Breech Basics, Spinning Babies Breech

    • Reteach Breech, Dr. Stu Fischbein

    • Neonatal Resuscitation Program

    • Adult/Infant CPR

Melissa Moreland

Melissa is a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) with over 16 years of experience as a nurse and birth professional. Her journey into midwifery began early, sparked by witnessing birth as a teenager, and deepened through years of professional work. She spent seven years as a labor and delivery nurse, gaining a strong foundation in both physiologic birth and emergency skills.

While working in hospital-based birth, Melissa became increasingly drawn to the continuity, autonomy, and relational depth of midwifery care. After experiencing her own transformative home birth—welcoming her 10-pound baby with the support of a home birth midwife—she felt called to step fully into the homebirth model. She went on to train and work for four years as a birth assistant before completing her education and becoming a CPM in 2025.

Melissa’s approach to care is rooted in deep presence, true informed consent, and unwavering respect for patient autonomy. She believes birth belongs to women and families—not to systems or policies—and is passionate about family-centered care that honors each person’s values, intuition, and choices. She deeply trusts normal physiologic birth and believes that healthy people are safest giving birth at home, protected from the cascade of unnecessary medical interruptions and interventions.

Having experienced both hospital birth and homebirth herself—welcoming her first child in the hospital and her next two babies at home with midwives—Melissa understands firsthand the profound difference that relational, personalized care can make. She views birth as sacred, intimate, and transformative, and considers it an honor to walk alongside families through pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period.

Melissa is married to her best friend and is the mother of three children. Outside of midwifery, she enjoys spending time in nature, cooking and nourishing her family and community, reading, thrift store shopping, and being with the people she loves most.

Melissa Moreland

    • Licensed Traditional Midwife, Minnesota Board of Medical Practice, #1117

    • Certified Professional Midwife, North American Registry of Midwives, #CPM25090841

    • Registered Nurse since 2010

    • Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Oral Roberts University

    • Neonatal Resuscitation Program

    • Adult/Infant CPR

    • Reteach Breech, Vaginal Breech and Twin Births, Dr. Stu Fischbein

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