Anne Lastrapes, RN, LM, CPM
Licensed Midwife Practitioner

Over 30 years’ experience in nursing and prenatal, labor, delivery and postpartum care. Past President of Louisiana Midwives Assn.; Advisory Committee of Midwives for State Board of Medical Examiners.

In 1985 her nursing career led her into the areas of labor and delivery, and nursery and postpartal care in a hospital. She taught prenatal classes, transported high risk infants, worked in the OR for c-sections as well as the NICU and served as assistant head nurse of the OB Department.

In 1994 she became a midwife apprentice and assistant. She was licensed as a midwife practitioner by the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners in 1997 and certified by the North American Registry of Midwives in 1998. She has served as president of the Louisiana Midwives Association for seven years and is currently on the Advisory Committee of Midwives for the State Board of Medical Examiners, appointed by the Governor of Louisiana. She has over twenty years of childbirth experience and has practiced midwifery for nine years specializing in home births.

She believes that childbirth is a natural God-given process and not an illness, and out-of-hospital home births or those at birth centers are a safe alternative to childbirth when attended and supervised by a licensed midwife. She feels a responsibility to women to eliminate fear, restore confidence, and give birth back to the family.