ABOUT US
Bloom Waterbirth & Wellness Center is staffed by experienced midwives and other health care professionals who provide comprehensive midwifery and wellness services, educational resources, and community events to support the families we serve.
Heidi Marshall, LM
I graduated from Colorado State University in 1994 with my Bachelor of Science in Natural Resource Management/Botany. I had been working for the BLM and Environmental Protection Agency doing botanical work on endangered species when I found myself working near Point Arena, CA. If you have ever been to Point Arena, you would understand how the beauty and magnetic pull of the area literally changed the direction of my life. I went back to Colorado only to gather my belongings and make Point Arena my new home. This is where I learned about the strength and beauty of community, and this is where the root of my calling to serve moms, babies, and families began.
During the next 20+ years I started a family, gave birth to my two daughters at home, learned to grow loads of food, and began midwifery school. Raising my own children alongside the families I served shaped my understanding of truly personalized, relationship-based care and the importance of community in the childbearing and postpartum journey. During this time, I was fortunate enough to travel to Jamaica and Senegal to work in maternity hospitals. Due to this experience, I was able to learn valuable skills from the local birthing women and midwives, expanding not only my capabilities but also my perspective on the birthing process. Throughout these years I developed a strong background in evidenced based midwifery care, informed choice, functional and herbal medicine, nutritional healing, physiological birth, and water birth.
As my midwifery practice evolved, I moved to Ukiah in 2015 to open Bloom Waterbirth and Wellness Center. At Bloom, I am passionate about creating an environment where the birthing families feel safe, informed, and empowered. I strive to blend comprehensive clinical expertise with intuitive, family-centered care to support healthy, transformative births. The care provided at Bloom reflects my core philosophy that birth is a normal physiological process, and that true wellness begins long before labor and continues well after birth. I place a strong emphasis on comprehensive postpartum care, understanding that this critical window has lasting impacts on both parent and baby. Through attentive follow-up, hands-on breastfeeding support, and guidance in recovery and newborn care, I strive to ensure families feel confident, nourished and supported as they transition into this new chapter. I believe that when women and families receive thoughtful, continuous care, it not only protects and enhances their health and their baby’s well-being but also strengthens the foundation of the entire family. At the heart of my work is the belief that informed care is empowering care. By providing education, support and respect for each family’s unique needs and choices, I aim to help families build or maintain lasting health. Strong, healthy families are the cornerstone of thriving communities, and I strive to contribute to that greater whole through the work I do.
Adrianna Martin, LM
My journey to midwifery began in 2014 when I attended a DONA workshop that certified me as a birth doula. I began attending births of friends, and spent two years working with families in our sweet community at Bloom as a student midwife, and then worked as a staff Midwife Assistant.
What began as an innate fascination with pregnancy, birth, and babies has become a passion for educating and empowering families about their choices in healthcare. As a Licensed Midwife, my aim is to ensure that the people I work with, live and birth with awareness. Awareness of their options, their strength, their innate abilities, and the inner guidance that is inherent within them. I am constantly in awe of our clients, and honored by the privilege and blessing of walking alongside them as they move through some of the most intimate and transformative experiences of their lives.
Audrey Rees, LM, CPM
I was called into birth work 15 years ago after the transformative birth of my son under the care of midwives. That experience awakened my commitment to physiologic birth and set me on the path to becoming a Licensed Midwife in California.
For the past 14 years, I have served families as a doula, midwifery apprentice, and midwife. My journey began in hospital settings, where I witnessed the profound difference between intervention-heavy birth and undisturbed, supported physiologic birth. Through those experiences, I became clear that most healthy mothers need less intervention and more patience, which guided my decision to pursue community-based midwifery in homes and freestanding birth centers.
My training was shaped by both traditional apprenticeship and formal education. I attended the College of Traditional Midwifery at The Farm in Tennessee, where I learned from seasoned community midwives and experienced deeply rooted models of birth. I later graduated from the National Midwifery Institute to fulfill California licensure requirements and refined my clinical skills in a busy Humboldt County birth center. Over the years, I have supported families throughout Northern California and Hawai‘i in both home and birth center settings.
In addition to midwifery, I am inspired by permaculture principles and the art of growing food and medicine. I run a small-batch herbal medicine company, Rooted Moon Medicinals, crafting remedies to support mothers, babies, and families through pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond.
I believe pregnancy, birth, and postpartum are powerful thresholds for transformation—not only for families, but for communities. My work is grounded in deep respect for the body’s innate intelligence and the understanding that our physiologic design reflects Nature’s wisdom. I am devoted to midwifing not only babies, but also a broader cultural shift toward honoring birth as sacred, supported, and life-shaping.
Karen Miller-Han, BS, RDMS
My journey to ultrasound took many twists and turns, going through other careers in banking, catering and medical transcription, before finally settling on ultrasound in the late 1990s. There was always something so fascinating about never knowing what I was going to see when I started scanning a patient. I started off assisting the ultrasound technologists at St. Helena Hospital in St. Helena, CA and Sutter Lakeside Hospital in Lakeport, CA, and developed a love of working with people—not just getting images of a particular part of their body, but learning about their lives and what was special about each of them.
I trained over four years and eventually challenged the state board examinations to become a registered diagnostic medical sonographer. During that period of time I got married to a chiropractor and had our son, born by a C-section, followed three years later by our daughter, also a C-section. Up to that point I had no knowledge that there was really any other way to birth than in a hospital setting. I worked in various hospitals as a temporary tech because I wanted to be able to be at home as much as possible while the children were young. Once they reached school age, I started looking for more work outside the home and eventually was led to start a 3D/4D business in 2011 which grew into working with midwives as they found out about my services. By 2012 I was introduced to home birth and after attending my first birth, I was so impressed by what a birth could be, such a difference from my experiences in the hospital. I’ve since developed a passion for working with families and utilizing ultrasound for not only health care but also enabling the bonding process for the whole family.
Deedee Levine, MS, OTR/L, CLC
Occupational Therapist | Pelvic Floor Therapist | Lactation Counselor | Birth Doula | Childbirth Educator
Deedee Levine is a licensed Occupational Therapist with a passion for supporting women, babies, and families through every stage of the perinatal journey. Her work blends clinical expertise with a deep respect for the body’s natural processes, creating a holistic approach to care that supports healing, connection, and empowerment.
Deedee specializes in pelvic floor therapy, women’s health, and pediatric occupational therapy, helping clients navigate concerns such as birthing prep postpartum recovery, core and pelvic floor dysfunction, feeding challenges, developmental support, and nervous system regulation. She integrates a variety of therapeutic approaches—including client education, gentle myofascial techniques, functional movement, and body awareness—to help restore comfort and optimal function.
In addition to her work as an occupational therapist, Deedee is also a lactation counselor, birth doula, and childbirth educator. She is passionate about empowering families with evidence-based information, compassionate support, and practical tools that help them feel prepared and confident during pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood.
Deedee believes that care during the childbearing years should be collaborative, respectful, and deeply supportive—for the whole family unit. She is honored to work alongside families at Bloom Waterbirth & Wellness Center to nurture healthy beginnings for both parents and babies.