Meet the MidwiFE

SARA FINA

Midwife + Mamma + Teacher

    • Licensed Midwife (LDEM)

    • Certified Professional Midwife (CPM)

    • SMC Full Circle Doula

    • Neo-Natal Resuscitation Program

    • CPR Certified

    • Reiki Level 2 Practitioner

    • Cranio-Sacral for or Pregnancy, Post-Partum, & Infants

    • Acupressure Massage for Pregnancy, Post-Partum, & Infants

    • Peri-Natal Yoga Instructor

  • My work as a Doula + Midwife + Mother + Teacher extends over 23 years.

    My calling to Midwifery is interwoven within my lineage of medicine + healing traditions.

    My care for families is deeply rooted in BIPOC traditions, integrating Ayurveda + Islamic traditions of mother-care.

    My practice is grounded in a deep understanding of the relationship between the physiology of pregnancy, labor, and birth, and the spirituality + emotional experience that is integrated through somatic bodywork, trauma-informed care, and culturally rooted approaches.

    I center the whole person, responding with individualized care that integrates home, birth-center, hospital experiences; and balances with sacred herbal and natural remedies, lactation support, newborn care, cesarean recovery, acupressure for pregnancy and labor, perinatal and infant massage, and craniosacral therapy for both birthing people and newborns.

    My experience includes working as a Birth Assistant within multidisciplinary care teams across various birth centers. As well as a doula within Hospital Based Practices and systems; collaborating with OBs and CNMs, including continuous support across fertility, pregnancy, labor, birth, cesarean births, and 40days postpartum recovery. And as a postpartum midwife, supporting families in the immediate 48 hours after birth and throughout the first six weeks postpartum.

    As a mentor and educator, I support birth-workers, building workforce of Doulas and Midwives, including serving on the THW Commission with the Oregon Health Authority, Teaching with Birthingway College, SMC Doulas, National College of Midwifery, Oakland Better Birth Foundation, as well as numerous conferences and workshops.

    My teaching includes culturally rooted knowledge, community-based care, and the integration of traditional wisdom with evidence-based practice.

    My greatest honor is being the mother to five children, with personal birth experiences spanning home birth, water birth, and life-saving cesarean.

Testimonials

"Sara has not only grace and intuition in birth but also displays a reverence for the sacredness of each mother's journey. She is a skilled midwife and educator, and brings a level of experience with specifically the diverse communities that is desperately needed in the homebirth community."

-Racha Tahani Lawler, CPM, LM  Midwife


“Sara was my midwife, teaching me how to eat right, take care of my body, mind and spirit in my process of learning to be a mother.  She supported me in so many ways, from the daily struggles of deciding what foods to eat, ways to sleep more comfortably, even how to deal with some trying heartburn, to the more complicated emotional rollercoaster that is pregnancy.  But, by far, the biggest impact she had was during my labor. Somehow, even though I felt in my being I could not have a natural childbirth she guided me with patience and persistence to my goal, and eventually helped my daughter come into this world. I can honestly say I'm not sure I would have made it without her.

-Athena L

“Sara’s birth and body work is done with such grace, knowledge, love and respect—for women, mothers, babies, families, and the process itself. She has a warmth, a connection, and an intuition—all of these touched me deeply, instilled healing, and made my birth experience all the more positive.”

—Lita M., Oakland, CA.