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Our Mission
The Birth Center’s mission is to provide safe, holistic, and compassionate care to women and families in a comfortable, low-intervention environment where women feel supported, empowered, and involved in their medical decisions. Care is provided based on evidenced-based practices as well as an innate trust in the human body.
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Our Team
Amy Kirbow CPM, LM, LICENSED MIDWIFE
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Amy has walked alongside women and helped them in birth for almost 20 years, and for more than 10 of these years has been certified as a midwife. She began her pursuit of midwifery after the traumatic birth of her first son 23 years ago. Following that experience, she knew the modern medical approach should not be the starting point for woman nor the definition of birth. Having learned about midwifery as an option she chose a natural birth using midwives for her two other sons with redeeming and life changing outcomes. Understanding the spectrum of what birth can be both with and without education and a plan, Amy has made it her mission to help women have options, choices, information and education.
Prior to beginning work with the Bozeman Birth Center, she practiced as a Certified Professional Midwife and Licensed Midwife in a solo home birth practice for over 10 years. Amy believes birth is natural, normal and intricately designed and the less we do as providers to interfere, the more it works. She believes in the model of midwifery and loves supporting women in out-of-hospital environments, be it in the home or in the birth center setting.
Her philosophy of birth is simple: because birth is intricately designed, intervention should rarely be necessary. Midwives should be the standard of care for women who are low risk. She believes the childbearing years are the best years of a woman’s life; they should be celebrated, embraced and enjoyed. It is her honor to walk alongside women during this beautiful and sacred time supporting them, their choices and their family. As a midwife, Amy supports classical midwifery values.
Her goal at the Bozeman Birth Center is to work with the growing community, offering exceptional service and individualized care to women and families. She aims to work with her clients to provide them with the comfortable safe birth experience they know is possible. Amy knows each woman is unique, and every birth story should be as well. Her desire is to help women to see birth as a normal, beautiful life event waiting to unfold. She eagerly looks forward to walking alongside you in this journey.
Laney Lewis CPM, LM, Licensed Midwife
Laney grew up in southern Indiana in a small town called Spencer. She started her midwifery career in 2019 in the Dominican Republic where she witnessed her first birth and was able to learn from many talented doulas, CPMs/CNMs and OBGYNs both American and Dominican. This jump started her love for birth and the excitement of what it means to be a midwife.
In October 2020 she moved to Bozeman, MT where she began her apprenticeship. When not assisting in birth, Laney loves to hike, spend time with friends and loves learning new things. One of her favorite quotes that well represents her birth philosophy is by Ina May Gaskin: “Birth Matters... It matters because it is the way we all begin our lives outside of our mother's bodies. It's the means from which we enter and feel our first impression of the wider world. For each mother, it is an event that shakes and shapes her to her innermost core. Women's perceptions about their bodies and their babies' capabilities will be deeply influenced by the care they receive around the time of birth.”
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Kate Goeler , CPM, LM
Kate began her midwifery journey in 2022 after 7 years working in sports medicine, and 10 years of global travel to developing countries. Around the world she was meeting women desiring more educational and dignifying pregnancy care options. Her training has included time with midwives in Georgia and Bozeman, ultimately landing in Bozeman to continue pursuing her midwifery career with the Bozeman Birth Team.
Her training in sports medicine and heart to offer more personalized pregnancy care to women has given her a unique passion to understand the physiology of birth and help women prepare their bodies and minds for the journey of bringing new life into the world.
Kate believes physiological birth is trustworthy, and personalized midwifery care should be more accessible to women and families.
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Sandra Schlossin, RN, CPM, LM,
Interim Midwife
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I have always had a love for life and science the incredible and wonderous makings of the human body. I first felt called to midwifery after spending time in Haiti on a Missions trip in 2000. I became a Registered Nurse in 2006 and worked in Emergency Nursing since 2008, always with the tug on my heart to become a Midwife. I finished raising my family of 5 children, was blessed with the title of Nana to now 7 grandchildren and have a husband of 41 years.
I now have the title midwife and am thrilled to join the Bozeman Birth Center as interim midwife, which means I will be here to help in the busiest months as well to support the primary midwives during their vacation time.
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Marissa Newell Resident Midwife Apprentice
I’m Marissa, a Third Phase Primary Assistant with two years of experience in birth work. My journey into midwifery feels like it was written into my story from the beginning—I was born at home, so the path felt natural. What drew me deeper into this work is the power of informed consent and the deeply relational nature of midwifery. I believe every birthing mother deserves to feel seen, heard, and empowered in their choices.
I’m originally from the East Coast and feel most at home near the water. I’m a bit of a homebody at heart, which is ironic for how often I get woken up in the middle of the night to go serve a laboring mother. Looking ahead, I dream of taking midwifery overseas to connect with underserved communities and offer care that is rooted in relationship.
Midwifery, to me, is more than a job—it’s a calling. It is gritty, tough, and indescribably beautiful, much like birth itself. And everyday I'm glad I answered that call.
Megan Richardson, Licensed Apprentice
Jennifer Shaw, Licensed Apprentice
It is our love language to walk alongside women as they grow and birth new life. It is our mission to ensure the midwifery model of care is passed to the next generation of women. To this end, we encourage and invite midwifery students into our practice. Our students are Licensed with the state of Montana as Midwifery Apprentices and are professional, reliable, confident and caring. Students are required to maintain HIPPA confidentiality and are certified as doulas, childbirth educators, birth assistants and are qualified in CPR and NRP.