![]() ![]() Maria is the ideal that the rest of the healthcare system should aspire to. ![]() Melanie Watts, MD and Shankar Levine, MD I trusted her experience and her trust In me helped me trust myself. Knowing that Maria knew me, understood me and what I wanted as well as being the consummate professional at the ready to deftly manage any situation. It is because I found someone I trusted, so implicitly that I could let go of my doctor brain and delve fully into being a birthing woman. People ask me how I could possibly have done two home births as an ER doctor who knows all the risks of childbirth and all the things that can go wrong. ![]() Yet she never loses sight of what is best and safest for you and your baby, walking with you and helping navigate the path when things don't go exactly as you planned, and they never do. She becomes such a part of your life that she must become like another member of the family for all of her clients. Working with Maria, it feels like you must be her only patient - that is how deeply she listens and truly hears you, how deeply she cares. “By allowing the birth process to unfold in its most natural way, we honor traditions that have the power to shape our spiritual and cultural identity.” Please email for more information or use the online system below to make a free introductory appointment. Zoom and home prenatal visits are 1 hour long and postpartum visits are in your home. Maria serves San Francisco with home birth midwifery services, as well as labor management at home midwifery services. She suspects that her highest appreciation of spirituality emerges from the repeated witnessing of miracles. Maria feels honored to attend the birth of a child, always feeling that it is a very special invitation to a private celebration. Having given birth at home herself, Maria knows the path that lies ahead. She is also the producer of a video, It’s My Body, My Baby, My Birth that you can see on YouTube. She has served on the Board of Directors of the California Association of Midwives and the Midwives Alliance of North America. She has been in a San Francisco home birth practice since 1986 and founded the Bay Area Homebirth Collective. She has also trained as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). Maria Iorillo is a California Licensed Midwife (LM) as well as a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM). ![]()
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