Mother Roots Midwifery
culturally rooted, community-centered, inTegrative, trauma-informed, & evidence-based care & classes for families and birth-workers
Balance Fertility & Womb Wellness. Consult for Natural + Herbal + Cycle Balancing
Monitoring and support from the onset of active labor + birth + post partum + newborn transitions + latch
Our team
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EDUCATIONAL DIRECTOR
With over 23 years of combined experience supporting families through birth and mentoring doulas, midwives, and community health workers, Sara is dedicated to expanding culturally inclusive and accessible care. Her work is deeply rooted in culturally specific traditions of care, honoring the wisdom, practices, and healing approaches of diverse communities.As a birth-worker and healer, she has supported families across home, birth center, and hospital settings. Her practice is grounded in a deep understanding of the physiology of pregnancy, labor, and birth, and integrates somatic bodywork, trauma-informed care, and culturally rooted approaches that center the whole person. Her training includes herbal and natural remedies, lactation support, newborn care, cesarean recovery, acupressure for pregnancy and labor, perinatal and infant massage, and craniosacral therapy for both birthing people and newborns.
Sara brings extensive clinical experience, having worked as a Birth Assistant within multidisciplinary care teams across various birth centers. As a doula, she has collaborated with OBs and CNMs in Portland, Oregon, where she was trained to provide continuous support during labor, cesarean births, and postpartum recovery. She has also served as a Postpartum Midwife, supporting families in the immediate 48 hours after birth and throughout the first six weeks postpartum.
As a mentor and educator, Sara has trained and supported hundreds of birth-workers through her work with the Oregon Health Authority Traditional Health Worker Commission, Birthingway College, SMC Doulas, National College of Midwifery, Oakland Better Birth Foundation, and numerous conferences and workshops. Her teaching centers culturally grounded knowledge, community-based care, and the integration of traditional wisdom with evidence-based practice.
Sara is also a mother of five children, with personal birth experiences spanning home birth, water birth, and life-saving cesarean. These experiences deeply inform her compassionate, adaptable approach to care. Known for her intuitive connection with newborns, she brings a calming presence and practical wisdom to support families in building confidence, connection, and joy in early parenthood.
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CLINCAL DIRECTOR
Israel is a midwife, mother of seven, founder of Mother of Many Midwifery Services, and serving families in Oregon with a deep commitment to community-based, culturally rooted care. As the clinical director and primary midwife at Mother Roots Midwifery, she brings over 10 years of experience supporting families through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, grounded in a lifelong calling to nurture, educate, and advocate for mothers and babies.Her work is rooted in culturally specific traditions of care, honoring the wisdom, practices, and healing approaches of diverse communities. Israel is dedicated to restoring birth as a safe, supported, and empowering experience—centering the voices, identities, and lived experiences of the families she serves.
She has worked across homes, birth centers, and community settings as a midwife, doula, and medical assistant, bringing a holistic and relationship-centered approach to her care. Her practice integrates a strong foundation in the physiology of pregnancy and birth with trauma-informed, somatic, and evidence-based care. She supports families with knowledge and skills in natural birth, postpartum recovery, lactation, newborn care, and holistic wellness practices that nurture both parent and baby.
Israel’s vision is grounded in reproductive justice and the belief that culturally rooted, holistic midwifery care can transform outcomes for families—particularly those from historically marginalized communities. She is passionate about protecting the parent-infant bond, honoring cultural traditions, and creating spaces where families feel safe, seen, and supported in their full humanity.
As a leader, mentor, and educator, Israel is committed to building a strong, community-based birth workforce. She supports birth-workers in developing both clinical skill and culturally grounded practice, ensuring that care remains accessible, inclusive, and reflective of the communities it serves.
Her own experiences as a mother have deeply shaped her path, reinforcing her belief in the power of birth as a transformative and sacred life event. Through her work, Israel continues to cultivate spaces of healing, connection, and empowerment for families and future generations.
Testimonials
"Sara has not only grace and intuition in birth but also displays a reverence for the sacredness of each mother's journey. She is a skilled midwife and educator, and brings a level of experience with specifically the diverse communities that is desperately needed in the homebirth community."
-Racha Tahani Lawler, CPM, LM Midwife
“As a first time mother of twins, I was seeking lots of guidance through the entire process. I met Israel by chance at the local farmers’ market, and I immediately sensed her kindness, compassion, and genuine passion for her practice.
She really helped me feel calm and confident about my experience, and she often brought ease to my mind after we talked. She was with me every step of the way while I decided to go to the hospital. It was so helpful to have an advocate by my side during this process. I’m happy to have met and worked with Israel, and now I’m happy to call her a friend as well!”
Stephanie H.
“Sara’s was my midwife, teaching me how to eat right, take care of my body, mind and spirit in my process of learning to be a mother. She supported me in so many ways, from the daily struggles of deciding what foods to eat, ways to sleep more comfortably, even how to deal with some trying heartburn, to the more complicated emotional rollercoaster that is pregnancy. But, by far, the biggest impact she had was during my labor. Somehow, even though I felt in my being I could not have a natural childbirth she guided me with patience and persistence to my goal, and eventually helped my daughter come into this world. I can honestly say I'm not sure I would have made it without her.
-Athena L
“I highly recommend Israel to anyone anyone who is looking for a strong support person for their birth. Israel knows what she’s talking about, provides any help she can give, and just goes above and beyond for her clients! We loved having her to help welcome our baby into the world.”
-Hailey B.
“Sara’s birth and body work is done with such grace, knowledge, love and respect—for women, mothers, babies, families, and the process itself. She has a warmth, a connection, and an intuition—all of these touched me deeply, instilled healing, and made my birth experience all the more positive.”
—Lita M., Oakland, CA.
“My experience with Israel is that she is kind, inclusive and knowledgeable. I always enjoyed my appointments with her, I felt seen and heard, you could tell when you spoke to her she listened to understand and support not just to respond ♡.”
-Adrianna R.