Come find the Sweet Water
Moonlit Midwives is a holistic wellness practice specializing in supporting families from conception, through all of life's births and rebirths, and the final transition. We offer care that centers the unique needs of each individual, with all of their nuances, unique qualities, and interesting characteristics. All beings and all bodies are truly welcome here.
Services Include:
Birth Related Midwifery Care & Home Birth, Community Building, Holistic Pain Management, Ancestral & Inner Child Healing, Grief & Death Support (Spiritual & Physical)
Kimberly Onile-Ogygia, Midwife
Licensed & Certified Professional Midwife (She/Her)
Kim brings an entire universe of experience, and wealth of knowledge to her work as a midwife. As a legally trained community advocate, as a member of several marginalized communities, as a mother of four multiethnic children, Midwife Kim has the ability to connect with people on a level that welcomes, affirms, and values human diversity in every way. Kim has worked with families in extremely rural environments and in crowded urban centers, with families from end to end on the religious spectrum, and with families in the LGBTQ+ community, and served them all well. Her track record for healthy outcomes, and positive patient satisfaction speaks for itself.
Kim is a Certified Professional Midwife, and Licensed Direct Entry Midwife in the state of Utah. She has 6 years of experience providing home birth and birth center deliveries. She specializes in trauma informed care, shared decision making, and improving maternal health and well-being. Kim has a Law Degree from The University of Missouri - Kansas City, and a Bachelor of Art in Sociology with Emphasis in Black and Latina/o Studies from the same university.
When not working, Kim's hobbies include gardening, cooking, watching the Resident, and trying new foods.
Jo Von Ogygia-Onile, Soul Midwife
Alchemist & Certified Reiki Master Tekina Ogygia (They/Them)
Jo Von brings a whole life approach to their work as a Soul Midwife. Their midwifery journey has been intense, healing, and immensely beautiful yet it has not even reached its peak. Jo Von's journey into Soul Midwifery started after taking care of their late Father for the last year of his life in 2015. After spending years doing shadow work to heal their inner child wounds they were able to accept their Ancestral gifts and set fully into their power. After years of working as Chef Instructor, Alchemist and Reiki Master, in 2020 they suffered a life-threatening injury due to hospital negligence and had to undergo 2 years of intense physical therapy to regain their physical independence. Due to the injury, Jo Von was diagnosed with multiple chronic illnesses, but refused to continue taking Western medicine for pain management after a month. While recovering they obtained knowledge in herbalism to help naturally bring pain relief and aid reducing inflammation. Afterwards they were able to help others honor where their own healing journey and help them to transition slowly from Western medicine to Holistic Pain Management.
Jo Von is a Soul Midwife, High Priestess, Certified Reiki Master of multiple modalities, Alchemist, and Metaphysical practitioner with a specialization in Ancestral trauma and Inner child work. They are currently enrolled in the CNA program at OTech to pursue the Nursing degree path and their goal is to become a Certified Hospice Registered Nurse. They believe that this life is not meant to be easy, but it is also not meant to be filled with sorrow, paying bills, and loneliness. Individuals deserve to live a life surrounded by love, abundance, and joy and heal in love. This is the journey of Soul Midwifery and the one thing that is constant in life is birth, change, and death. In their soul garden, they work with their clients to honor their healing, face all of themself and honor each part of their clients being that has contributed to what makes them who they are."
When Jo Von is not working they like to spend time with family, create new food recipes, watching the anime Apothecary Diaries, garden, arts/crafts and cuddle with their fur babies.
Elena Xoca Hardeman
Apprentice Midwife Elena (She/Her)
Elena is a junior in high school who desires to enter the medical field following in her mother's footsteps. Ever since she was little watching her mom go to births in a hurry, she has admired her for how she cares for her patients. After each birth her mom would tell her the gender of the baby, how the birth went and even use medical terminology. The experiences her mom described and the unknown words is how she knew she wanted to follow in her footsteps and become a midwife. To be able to see her patients smile at their babies that she would help guide into the world means everything to her.
Elena's goal is to become a Certified Nurse-Midwife, study the nuances of nutrition and health outcomes, and gain experience through each and every wonderful being she encounters. She hopes to make connections while also helping others.
When Elena is not working on her goals she likes to spend her time baking, going outside, spending time with family, reading, writing poetry, playing with her cat, and watching Grey's Anatomy.
You have a right to quality care:
Respect for your cultural and spiritual beliefs, values, customs, and preferences
Equal care regardless of age, race, ethnicity, religion, socio-economic status, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, language, or culture
Equal care regardless of physical or mental disability
Courteous, responsive, and respectful treatment from healthcare workers
Timely, appropriate, and effective pain management
Refuse care or treatment; refuse to consent
Complain without fear of retaliation or negative consequences to your future treatment
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Location: 243 East 400 South, Central City, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111