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Montpelier’s Laureli Morrow is experienced at helping women bring babies into the world. She previously did home births as a direct entry (lay) midwife and went on to become a birthing center nurse. Now Morrow has earned her master’s degree as a certified nurse-midwife and joined a hospital she says is like coming home. Morrow started last month at Gifford Medical Center in Randolph, where she worked as a registered nurse in the hospital’s renowned Birthing Center from 1998-2005.
“Some of my closest friends are here,” says Morrow. “I feel fortunate to be back at Gifford. It just feels like coming back home.”
A 1986 graduate of the Sage Femme Midwifery School, a direct entry midwifery school in California, Morrow went on to earn her associate degree in nursing from Norwich University (previously Vermont College) in 1994, her bachelor’s degree in holistic studies from Vermont College of Norwich University in 1998 and then her master’s degree in nurse-midwifery from the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing in Kentucky.
She worked as an apprentice, birth assistant and direct entry midwife from 1986-1992. Her birthing center nursing career took her to Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin and Gifford from 1994-2005. And in recent years she’s worked as sexual assault nurse examiner at Gifford and Central Vermont Medical Center. She’s also worked as a registered nurse in Alaska, helping native populations, and as a volunteer at the former Green Mountain Waldorf School, with the People’s Health and Wellness Clinic in Barre, and as an La Leche League leader, offering breastfeeding counseling, education and support.
A New Hampshire native, she’s lived in Vermont for 17 years and took some time off throughout her career to raise two sets of boys, Thorin and Wolfie, now 22 and 19 respectively, and Gus and Forest, ages 5 and 3.
For the Montpelier family, nursing is in their blood. Morrow’s husband John Caron is a registered nurse and oldest son Thorin is now in the nursing program at Norwich.
In her free time, Morrow enjoys swimming, “cooking and eating,” kayaking and spending time with her family. At work, her clinical interests are women’s health and care, including gynecological and perinatal care. She is also interested in natural and alternative modalities to health care that incorporate nutrition, exercise and healthy lifestyle choices.
“I really embrace the midwifery philosophy, which is holistic care. It’s not patient and provider; it’s a relationship they develop,” Morrow says, noting her role is to “listen and meet people where they are to give them the care they want.”
“Women need to be empowered and I want to help women find their own strengths so they are in charge of their health,” she says.
Morrow is board certified by the American Midwifery Certification Board, and a member of the Vermont Midwives Alliance and the Vermont chapter of the American College of Nurse-Midwives. She is now seeing patients at both Gifford Ob/Gyn and Midwifery in Randolph and Gifford’s Berlin clinic, the Gifford Health Center at Berlin, located off from Airport Road.
At Gifford, she joins a team of certified nurse-midwives. To learn more or schedule an appointment with a member of the midwifery team, call the practice at (802) 728-2401.