Congratulations on your pregnancy! We know first hand that this journey of growing your family can be simultaneously exciting, overwhelming, scary and joy filled. Our hope is to partner with you and your family in order to provide you with the information, support, knowledge and reassurance that you need to feel fully equipped to welcome this new phase of life.
We are both passionate about this beautiful place we call home, and about ensuring that all families have access to their choice of maternity care provider in their own home community. We also believe that pregnancy and birth are both normal and tremendously significant times in the life of the individual, the family, and in the wider community. It is a privilege and a gift to share these unique and profound experiences with the families of Sooke.
We are both passionate about this beautiful place we call home, and about ensuring that all families have access to their choice of maternity care provider in their own home community. We also believe that pregnancy and birth are both normal and tremendously significant times in the life of the individual, the family, and in the wider community. It is a privilege and a gift to share these unique and profound experiences with the families of Sooke.
uta herold, rm
With her mother being a midwife, Uta got in touch with the profession in her earliest childhood. At five years of age she found her calling and decided to become a midwife.
In 1981, she graduated from the midwifery program at the university in Magdeburg, Germany, a school with a history of more than 230 years of midwifery education. She has worked as a midwife ever since and has attended approximately 2500 births to date.
Within her midwifery practice, she has also worked as a prenatal class instructor and a Pelvic Floor Class instructor. In 1995, she graduated from a three year program in Classical Homeopathy, and in 2006 attended a one year program in Traditional Chinese Medicine with a focus in obstetrics. Uta includes her knowledge and experience in these complementary therapies whenever it is indicated and meets the interests of her clients.
Her passion for this special profession is nourished by every birth she attends. Being able to share this unique and profound experience with women and their families is a great gift for Uta that never becomes routine.
Uta is a mother of two boys, born in 1999 and 2001.
kaitlyn whitworth, rm
Kaitlyn has been working in maternity care since 2006, when she co-founded the West Coast Doula Collective in Port Alberni after finding her passion for supporting families through pregnancy and birth. In 2013 she received her Bachelor degree with honors in Midwifery from the University of Otago in New Zealand. She then returned home to Vancouver Island and had her own daughter, born in 2014.
Kaitlyn has a wide range of experience, from supporting women in a large, high-risk obstetric hospital to supporting and guiding families through homebirth in rural & remote communities. To each situation, regardless of how diverse, Kaitlyn brings her intuitive and empathetic care to meet the specific needs of the person and family she is caring for.
Delighted to now be settled and practicing in Sooke, Kaitlyn feels so very privileged to support local women and their families in growing new Sooke babies!
Kaitlyn believes that all people deserve maternity care that is respectful, professional, and centered on their own unique needs. The client-midwife partnership provides time and space for sharing information (both ways!), and for the development of a trusted relationship. She is constantly learning from women and their families in the context of this relationship, and is genuinely grateful!