Meet the moonstone birth team. 

Lori Steinmann, ARNP CNM
Owner, Midwife

Lori graduated in 1986 from the University of Iowa school of Nursing. In her last semester, she picked up a job as a clerk in the newborn nursery and NICU and instantly fell in love with nursing and found her calling. She was offered a job as a mother baby nurse when she graduated, and worked a variety of positions in all areas of maternal child nursing- NICU, postpartum, high risk antenatal, and labor and delivery. She can still recall the first delivery that she assisted with, and how she truly felt that she was where she belonged. 

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Lori went back to school for her FNP at Drake University. She wanted a career where she could have a variety of choices, and still be close to home for her 4 young children. She started work as a Family Nurse Practitioner in 1998. She loved the variety it brought, but missed working with pregnant moms and their newborns. She made the decision to return to school once again for her Post Masters Certificate in Nurse Midwifery at the University of Missouri in Columbia, graduating in 2000 and never looked back. 

Combining her two degrees has given her the opportunity to be with families at the beginning, and continue to watch them grow. After 23 years of delivering babies in the hospital setting, she opened Moonstone Midwifery to allow her patients the choice to birth at home, away from unnecessary medical intervention. 

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"It's a privilege to be present at any birth. I believe midwifery is a calling- it's not just a career. You give up a lot of your own life to be with these families. You become a part of their lives and they become a part of yours. I am blessed to have been a part of so many journeys- some of the babies I delivered when I first began are now having babies of their own. Birth is a true miracle and this is where I belong."