Rebecca Ray, RN, LM, CPM

I graduated nursing school in 1999 with a passion for maternal and newborn healthcare. I spent the next eight years working as a maternity nurse with a desire to pursue midwifery. But three children later, I decided to stay home and homeschool my children for a season first. In 2012 with an ever-present passion in women’s health, I enrolled in midwifery college. I spent the next three years at a birthing center in the southern Philippines completing my clinical training. The Philippines has outlawed home birth which has left a lot of impoverished women without viable options for birthing their babies. The birthing center I served at focused on caring for these women and providing compassionate, maternal care to them. I graduated with the intention of using my midwifery skills to serve other women in need of low-cost, compassionate care not provided by their community. This desire led our family to a town in the southern region of Pakistan where I served in a women’s hospital providing maternal care to the women of that community for the next three years. Serving in two Asian countries has given me exposure to birth practices of other cultures.

Since returning to the US, I received my Florida midwifery license and have served families in two busy birth centers here in Jacksonville. When I am not caring for pregnant women or catching babies, I love spending time with my husband and my three sons. I love baking, reading, traveling, and playing board games with my family.