Who We Are

Mary Ann Baul, LM, RN, CPM, CBC, has been a licensed midwife since 1982, practicing in Flagstaff. She has an Associate of Applied Science in Midwifery from Northland Pioneer College and an Associate of Nursing from University of the State of New York. She is the former Executive Director of Midwifery Education Accreditation Council, a federally recognized agency that accredits schools for midwives in the United States. She has served as president and is a member of the Arizona Association of Midwives. She is also a member of Midwives Alliance of North America, National Association of Certified Professional Midwives, Citizens for Midwifery, and is a faculty member of the National College of Midwifery. She is also a certified breastfeeding counselor and teaches our breastfeeding classes. Mary Ann is married, the mother of one son, and a native of Flagstaff with nine brothers and sisters. When she gets an occasional day off, she loves hiking, gourmet vegetarian cooking, and most of all being with her family.

Kindra Hersh, LM, CPM, received her BA in Psychology from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado in 2006. After training as a birth and postpartum doula through DONA international, she moved back to her hometown of Flagstaff to study midwifery with us in 2007, graduating with an Associates Degree in Midwifery from the National College of Midwifery in 2009. She became licensed in the state of Arizona in 2010. She currently teaches our childbirth classes. She and her 4 siblings were all born at home in Flagstaff. She has two nephews and twin nieces, making Kindra an auntie to 4. She was present at the births of three of them. She was married in August of 2009 and is looking forward to starting a family of her own. In her free time she enjoys mountain biking, river rafting, hiking, and spending time with her family.

Emily Perry, SM, received her BS in Zoology from Northern Arizona University in 2003. She began her internship with us in 2009 after witnessing the midwives’ care of her sister-in-law and niece at their home birth. After working 8 seasons as a Grand Canyon River Guide she found herself on a new path to becoming a midwife. She is trained as a birth doula through DONA international and is currently enrolled as a student at the National College of Midwifery. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her close extended family including her two nieces and one nephew.

Paula Pelletier-Butler, BS, LMT, SM, has a background in nursing and has been working in the women’s health and empowerment field since 1986. She has been a perinatal, infant and women’s health massage therapist and educator for 21 years and is currently in the final months of completing her master’s degree in midwifery sciences at Bastyr University. Her midwifery training has taken her from the rural islands and big cities of the Pacific Northwest to the communities of Flagstaff and Tuba City. Her love and passion for pregnancy and birth began with the births of her children, who were all born with the loving assistance of a midwife. She has been attending home, birthing center and hospital births for over 19 years with friends, family, and professionally as a massage therapist, doula, birth assistant and student. She has always felt blessed to be a part of such a transformative and sacred life event. She has additional training in acupressure, yoga, cupping, moxabustion, abdominal and pelvic bodywork, infant and perinatal Craniosacral therapy, aromatherapy, reflexology, herbalism and homeopathy that she incorporates into midwifery care. In her spare time she loves hiking, dancing, baking, reading, playing cribbage and being with her husband, kids, and extended family.

Becky Weidinger, BSEd, LM, grew up in Arizona on a farm and a ranch, choosing Northern Arizona for her college education. After earning a BS in Education there, she married and began raising a family and assisting her husband in his pastoral ministry. Her midwifery training began shortly after the birth of her sixth baby, having had three hospital births and then three homebirths with midwives. She became licensed as a midwife in Arizona in 1994. Five of her children are married and she has had the honor of delivering many of her grandchildren. One of her children is in college and still living at home. Becky is involved in the music ministry of the church and remains active as a midwife as well as in the birthing community of Flagstaff. She is a member of the Arizona Association of Midwives and the Midwives’ Alliance of North America. She enjoys music, needlework, photography, and most of all her large extended family. Becky is not currently working full time with our practice; however, she does help us out when we need help or take vacations.