Sarah Maquire

My path to midwifery began when my first grade teacher called my parents to report a shouting match between me and a boy in class; I had been proudly talking about my new baby sister, and he said that breastfeeding was “gross.” It may have earned me a visit to the principal’s office, but a future ‘lactavist’ was born.

After I graduated from Michigan State with a degree in Zoology, I worked for a midwife in Detroit while I prepared to start a masters program in international public health. That experience helped me to realize that I didn’t have to leave the country to find a health system in need of change. I became a nurse through the second degree program at University of Detroit Mercy, and worked in labor and delivery for several years before
getting my masters as an Adult Health nurse practitioner, and then my post-masters degree in midwifery, both from Wayne State.

I believe every woman deserves to have respectful, knowledgeable, nurturing, supportive care during her pregnancy and birth experience. Both of my children were born at the Alternative Birth Center, guided into the world by a Metro Partners midwife (and the excellent labor support of my husband, Phil). Joan Lynn caught my daughter, Anikah, in 2005, and Mary Davis’ gentle hands greeted my son, Salem, in 2008.

I am thrilled to join this team of midwives who believe in the power of women and birth and to work with such supportive physicians.