Lauren (she/her) grew up in the western suburbs and was drawn to the City early on. She moved downtown for college and left to live and travel in the Pacific Northwest but returned because Chicago is home.

Childbirth has always had a magnetic draw for Lauren, especially the privilege of guiding, encouraging, and supporting laboring people through the process. She began her birth-world career as a doula in 2009. After graduating with a BA in Biblical Studies and Women's Ministry from Moody Bible Institute, she desired to support people more tangibly. The idea of becoming a midwife was appealing and became her focus. She worked as a labor and postpartum doula for five years, then a registered nurse with a degree from Loyola University Chicago. While working as a nurse in labor and delivery, she attended the University of Illinois in Chicago for her Master of Science in Nursing in midwifery and has been a Certified Nurse Midwife since 2018. Lauren has been working as a home birth midwife with Gentle Birth Care and has greatly appreciated her time with the families and birth workers in the community birth setting!

Lauren seeks to support physiological birth and provide care that reaches individual families needs. She is so excited to be a part of this community-based birth opportunity. She will be a part of furthering health care that believes in body autonomy, safe and evidenced-based care in birth, and compassion throughout the life cycle.

Lauren is excited to help build a freestanding birth center in her City! She lives in Andersonville with her husband and two children. She enjoys tromping around the neighborhood, biking, eating the delicious flavors in Chicago, and visiting our local parks.