Birth & Midwifery in Costa Rica
RESOURCES FOR PARENTS AND PRACTITIONERS

Uva Meiner

Uva Meiner, Holistic Midwife, has worked for 15 years with couples, mothers and families during preconception, pregnancy, birth, postpartum and beginnings of parenting. Uva's path is to help form conscious families who embrace this journey as a very important contribution to peace inside ourselves and out, as well as creating a joyful and sacred celebration of life.

Nati Steverlynck

Nati Steverlynck is a Certified Professional Midwife by the North American Registry of Midwives. She has done intensive clinical practice at the hospital, birth center and home setting and she is co-founder of Acompañando Mamás al Nacimiento (AMAN). Together with Ansu Coto, a doula and massage therapist, they offer a childbirth class in hypnobirthing. Nati is also a member of With Woman (www.womenwithwomen.org), an organization that supports woman-centered maternity care in underserved populations around the world. She has a career in Arts and Ceramics and birth shows frequently in her art work.

Marie Tyndall

Marie Tyndall is a midwife who has worked in diverse settings—from hospitals in Canada and England to rural communities in Iraq and Nicaragua. Originally from Canada, she now resides in Costa Rica where she teaches childbirth classes and works as a consultant for government health care services to help Costa Rica improve the care women receive in hospitals. Marie has been working for several years to support traditional midwives in Central America and currently has a project with a group of 20 traditional midwives in the north of Costa Rica.

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