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The Midwife
Cynthia Luxford, LDM, CPM

I am a traditional, apprentice-trained Christian midwife who is also State Licensed and nationally credentialed. I have been studying and practicing midwifery since 1980. I completed a four year apprenticeship with Patricia Edmonds from Forest Grove, Oregon.  During that time I attended many births with her and in 1990 began caring for my own clients in the Lincoln City area with the direct supervision of Patricia.  In November of 1993, was certified by the Oregon Midwifery Council, and passed. In 1994 I became a Licensed Direct Entry Midwife.  My license also carries a special endorsement to use legend drugs and devices.  This means that I have attended continuing education courses where I became skilled in using anti-hemorrhagic medications, oxygen and I.V. therapy for the treatment of shock and dehydration.  I can administer Vitamin K and erythromycin to the newborn and administer the Rhogam injection to Rh-negative mothers.   I can also use local anesthetic and place sutures.  In May of 1998, I became a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM), Certified by the North American Registry of Midwives.  I provide prenatal, birth and postpartum care including the necessary laboratory (blood) work. 

I have served as the vice president, and Secretary of the Oregon Midwifery Council, and attend regular peer review and statewide meetings. I also attend as many continuing education workshops as I can. I hold a current Adult CPR, Standard First Aid, and Certification in Neonatal Resuscitation and Advanced Life Support for newborns.

I have completed the Cesarean Prevention Movement's childbirth educator course, called "Birth Works", and use the class content to teach my own clients during the course of their prenatal care.  I am a faculty member of the National College of Midwives in Taos, New Mexico, where I am a preceptor for apprenticing midwives.  I am also a preceptor for Birthingway College of Midwifery in Portland, Oregon and Aviva Institute.   These apprentices are involved in varying degrees in my practice.  I oversee their midwifery academics for the college, and provide them with the hands on midwifery skills they require to become midwives through the apprenticeship model. 

I am the wife of the most wonderful “midwife’s husband” ever.  He has been to 16 births with me in the past 12 years, by special request.  Being married to a midwife is a very tough and thankless job.  I appreciate him for all the support he gives me.

I am also the mother of two beautiful adult daughters.  Both were born with the same midwife who

trained me.  That same midwife, Patricia, was also present during the births of my two grandsons, whom I was extremely honored to receive from my oldest daughter. 

Cindy in Oslo, Norway with sculpture of big babies