ELIZABETH R. CLARKSON, CNM, MSN
When I was pregnant with my first child, I knew I wanted to have midwives and birth out of hospital. I used a larger practice and had a planned birth center birth. It was not quite the experience I had envisioned and in 2000 when pregnant with my second and living in the area I discovered Midwifery Care Associates.
Read moreI fell in love with Louise and Pam. It was exactly the type of personalized care and homebirth I had dreamed of. As years went by I felt even more drawn to midwifery and in 2008 I returned to school and completed my Bachelors in Nursing at TCNJ with the goal of becoming a midwife. After graduation I was a home birth assistant with Midwifery Care and also worked as an OR nurse as I earned my MSN in Midwifery at Frontier Nursing University, doing part of my clinical rotation here.
As a client I had three beautiful homebirths and have a deep understanding of what draws people to our practice. I feel very strongly that women should have options to birth where they feel most safe and supported and am thrilled to join a practice where this is a shared passion.
I live in Princeton with my husband, four children and a few too many rescue dogs and cats.
NICOLE M. MYERS, CNM, MSN
I believe I wanted to be a midwife before I even knew such a career existed. As the oldest of four children, I was fascinated with pregnancy and read everything my mother brought home from her OB appointments. It wasn’t until I read Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin that I realized that I wanted to spend my life supporting families and their birth choices as a midwife.
Read more I began working as a volunteer doula and then in 2003 became a birth assistant for Midwifery Care Associates. Watching women give birth in their homes surrounded by their families was beautiful and inspired me to begin training to become a certified professional midwife.
During this time, I had my own three children with Midwifery Care Associates. Two were home births, but my middle child decided to arrive a little too early and was born in the hospital. I am glad that I got to experience both and realized then that what really mattered to me wasn’t the place I was giving birth, but who my providers were and how they cared for me with empathy and respect.
It was toward the end of my CPM training that I realized I wanted to be able to practice in both home and hospital setting. I was encouraged by Louise Aucott and Pam Rosser, my own midwives, and began the process of first acquiring a BSN at Drexel University, and then MSN in Midwifery at University of Pennsylvania. I gained experience as a labor and delivery nurse and then as a CNM at a large hospital based practice before taking a position at Midwifery Care Associates. I am so happy to be able to join this practice and provide the type of individualized care I received from my midwives.
Throughout my journey in this field of work, I have been supported by my amazing husband, Joe. Together we live in an old farmhouse in Jobstown, NJ with our three children, Rosie, Jack and Jojo.
PAMELA ROSSER, CNM – Retired
My desire to become a midwife began during my second pregnancy when I choose to have my baby with midwives in an out of hospital setting. The difference between the care I received with midwives and the care I had received in my first pregnancy and birth with a doctor in a hospital was dramatic.
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After 12 years of nursing in intensive care units, I made a huge change and began working as a nurse in a birth center with midwives. For 6 years I worked in out of hospital birth, attending women at home with Louise Aucott, CNM in 1990 when she first opened Midwifery Care Associates, and in the birth center. During this time I realized the next step for me was to attend midwifery school. I felt it was important to see the hospital side of birth and worked for 2 years in a high-risk hospital setting as well as continuing to attend out of hospital births.
In 1993, I graduated from the University of Medicine and Dentistry School of Health Related Professions as a Certified Nurse Midwife. I worked for three years as a CNM in a variety of settings both hospital and birth center gaining experience. Then in 1997 I happily joined Louise Aucott, CNM at Midwifery Care Associates.
Heather Daniel, CNM and Danielle Melican, CNM came to us first as students. We immediately saw they had the passion and heart of true midwives and were hopeful that some day they would join our practice as it grew. Our wishes have come true and now together we offer a full scope midwifery service that includes home and hospital birth in addition to gynecologic care for women of all ages.
Our support of midwifery extends to incorporate participation as clinical preceptor and guest lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Nurse Midwifery Program, and as clinical preceptor for numerous educational programs.
I live in Pennsylvania with my dear mid-husband Kip and my geriatric cats. I have two wonderful grown sons, Zevan and Cody. I love to garden and cook and cuddle all the babies.
LINDA S. MYERS, Office Manager – Retired
Linda joined Midwifery Care Associates in September of 1996. She retired in July of 2023. She remains one of the important foundational cornerstones of our practice’s foundation.
ELIZABETH R. CLARKSON, CNM, MSN
NICOLE M. MYERS, CNM, MSN
PAMELA ROSSER, CNM – Retired