Grace Midwifery

Grace Midwifery Doran Richards, Denyse Phelps, and Clare Muczynski are all deeply passionate about supporting growing families and are excited to serve you at Grace Midwifery.
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Grace Midwifery offers women, and their families, both home and cottage birth in the Shenandoah Valley. Our goal is to build community and connection through maternity care. We, as a team, seek to provide each family in our care, with professional yet intimate relationships as we serve them through antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum. We strive to improve maternal and newborn outcomes for low-risk women. We believe that women and their families should be supported and empowered in their birthing experience. We offer informed decision making throughout the entirety of your care. We are committed and eager to serve women holistically, in mind, body, and spirit. The Midwives Model of Care is based on the fact that pregnancy and birth are normal life processes. The Midwives Model of Care includes:

Monitoring the physical, psychological, and social well-being of the mother throughout the childbearing cycle

Providing the mother with individualized education, counseling, and prenatal care, continuous hands-on assistance during labor and delivery, and postpartum support

Minimizing technological interventions

Identifying and referring women who require obstetrical attention

The application of this woman-centered model of care has been proven to reduce the incidence of birth injury, trauma, and cesarean section. Copyright (c) 1996-2008, Midwifery Task Force, Inc., All Rights Reserved.

To all of the amazing, brave, and caring women we have served over the years---your strength, love and resilience inspir...
03/08/2026

To all of the amazing, brave, and caring women we have served over the years---your strength, love and resilience inspire us everyday.

We are old school - we still do FREE consultations! Would you like to schedule consultation to see each other in person,...
03/07/2026

We are old school - we still do FREE consultations!

Would you like to schedule consultation to see each other in person, individually, and talk about what community birth would look like (cottage birth, or home birth)?

Reach out! www.gracemidwifery.com

Matriarchs of Midwifery: Wisdom, Care & Legacy is coming up April 17, 2026 - 5:00 pm- 9:00 pm at Shenandoah University!...
03/05/2026

Matriarchs of Midwifery: Wisdom, Care & Legacy is coming up April 17, 2026 - 5:00 pm- 9:00 pm at Shenandoah University!

We want to honor the midwives in our state and near by - and to say THANK YOU to them for their work, for their accomplishments, for their love of serving women and families in our area. This is a free event open to the public! Share and invite folks - get the word out, and help us let others know!

✨ When: April 17, 2026
🕔 Time: 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM
📍 Where: Halpin-Harrison Hall, Stimpson Auditorium (2nd fl), 600 Millwood Ave, Wi******er, VA 22601

Midwives being honored:

Juliana Fehr
Zan Ruby
Alice Bailes
Marsha Jackson
Leslie Payne
Peggy Franklin
Sheila Mathis

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm - Meet & Greet, Gather & Refreshments
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm - Video Honoring Midwives
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm - Introductions from each participant (10 min each)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm - Questions & Comments from Audience
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm - Fellowship & Refreshments & Closing

Cost is FREE!

https://giveahand.com/fundraiser/help-schwethelm-family-get-back-on-their-feetIf anyone feels led to help a local family...
02/25/2026

https://giveahand.com/fundraiser/help-schwethelm-family-get-back-on-their-feet

If anyone feels led to help a local family out ----

Help the Schwethelm Family stay together and acquire a safe place to call home!Selena and her son Julyen are parishioners at Sacred Heart. Selena was laid off from her job in November 2025 and has been searching for work since then.We know what happens during a time of unemployment: the bills pile u...

02/23/2026
02/18/2026

In a time when so much is crumbling, is burning, I don’t want to romanticize the ashes that come with destruction and devastation. As we approach Ash Wednesday and the season of Lent, I do want to keep asking what the Holy One can do with dust, and to keep looking for how I can be part of that. So many blessings to you, beloved ones, as the new season arrives.

BLESSING THE DUST

All those days
you felt like dust,
like dirt,
as if all you had to do
was turn your face
toward the wind
and be scattered
to the four corners

or swept away
by the smallest breath
as insubstantial—

did you not know
what the Holy One
can do with dust?

This is the day
we freely say
we are scorched.

This is the hour
we are marked
by what has made it
through the burning.

This is the moment
we ask for the blessing
that lives within
the ancient ashes,
that makes its home
inside the soil of
this sacred earth.

So let us be marked
not for sorrow.
And let us be marked
not for shame.
Let us be marked
not for false humility
or for thinking
we are less
than we are

but for claiming
what God can do
within the dust,
within the dirt,
within the stuff
of which the world
is made
and the stars that blaze
in our bones
and the galaxies that spiral
inside the smudge
we bear.

—Jan Richardson
from Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons
janrichardson.com/books

Image: “Ash Wednesday Cross”
© Jan Richardson
janrichardsonimages.com

We are here to serve - to listen, to be in community with you and your family.Have you considered a free consultation to...
02/16/2026

We are here to serve - to listen, to be in community with you and your family.

Have you considered a free consultation to discuss your pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum?

We are experienced and knowledgeable as a team, here to give you (and your family) 120% - to ensure you feel loved, safe, heard, and respected.

Reach out for a free consultation with us! We love building community and connections through maternity care!

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Middletown, VA
22645

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

+15402952186

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Welcome to Grace!

Doran, Miriam and the students at Grace Midwifery have been serving women and their families in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia for many years. She has had her practice since 2012. Serving women through childbirth and postpartum is a calling that she believes is a ministry. Grace is in abundance here... call us for a free consultation today! [PC Chelsea Maree Photography]

We now have donation link, if you want to share with family and friends to donate to your maternity care bill: www.venmo.com/midwifedoran

We also have an insurance biller, Rose Reimbursement, who can help you process your bill to insurance. https://www.facebook.com/rosereimbursement

The Midwives Model of Care is based on the fact that pregnancy and birth are normal life processes. The Midwives Model of Care includes: