Carol Gautschi
Carol Gautschi, CPM, LM, trained in California with, among others, Dr. Nial Ettenhausen in the 1970s and early 1980s. She has attended homebirths since 1978 and has worked as a Traditional Holistic Midwife on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula since 1979. For her first 25 years Carol served as an unlicensed midwife.
Her teaching style is unique because not only does she teach the nuts and bolts of her subject, but also emphasizes the unseen (or intuitive) realm of birth. She fosters the importance of the midwife relationship not just with the mom but the baby. Carol believes that the unseen world is more real than the seen, especially with regards to birth.
Carol is co-founder of the Washington Alliance of Rural Midwives (WARM), and chairs Olympic Peninsula Birth Matters.
She has seven children, ten grandchildren and has been married to Paul since 1974. Her Web site is: http://gentlebirths.net