She grew up in the Panama Canal Zone and received her degree in nursing from Louisiana State University. Gloria speaks Spanish and has a working knowledge of American Sign Language. She has helped bring hundreds and hundreds of babies into the world, the vast majority here in the Oldest City. Midwives provide primary care to women throughout the life cycle. Midwifery care emphasized health promotion, education, and disease prevention.
Midwives offer the time, personalized care, and attention all women deserve.
A CNM can prescribe and administer medications, including all forms of birth-control methods, and can order diagnostic and laboratory tests. Nurse-midwives make every effort to facilitate the normal process of birth, yet are able to use the resources of modern medicine to provide the best possible care. Free early pregnancy classes are offered periodically at the office. By appointment only. The St. Augustine Record and Morris Digital Works .