Anne Hirsch is a Washington state licensed midwife and a Certified Professional Midwife who has been practicing for 12 years. She provides a unique brand of woman-friendly maternity care for women having normal healthy pregnancies, birth and postpartum. She loves home birth/birth center birth and personalized prenatal care because she believes this gives the woman, her baby and her family the most empowering, safe and gentle birth experience. Hirsch trained in Infant Massage with pioneer Vimala Schneider and has been instructing parents in the art of massaging their babies for over 26 years. She utilizes the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy to help women relieve the aches and pains some experience in pregnancy and to help the baby get into an optimal position for labor. She also teaches yoga as a valuable tool for developing the skill needed for the strenuous work of labor/birth.