Our Staff
Peggy Cohen (she/her) is certified by the North American Registry of Midwives as a Certified Professional Midwife and is licensed in Vermont. She is a member of the Midwives Association of North America (MANA), the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives (NACPM), and Vermont Midwives Association (VMA). Peggy graduated with honors from Ohio University. Her post graduate work in Midwifery was done at the Seattle Midwifery School. She graduated from there in 1994 and has been helping babies out ever since!
In 1995 Peggy moved to the Burlington area from the Pacific Northwest and founded the home birth practice, Full Spectrum Midwifery. She has had the good fortune to work with some amazing students, midwives and families over many years.
In 1995 Peggy moved to the Burlington area from the Pacific Northwest and founded the home birth practice, Full Spectrum Midwifery. She has had the good fortune to work with some amazing students, midwives and families over many years.
Shari Corr (she/her) is a licensed midwife in the State of Vermont and certified by the North American Registry of Midwives. She is the proud mother of two grown daughters who were born at home with the help of Full Spectrum Midwifery. Before becoming a midwife she worked as a Certified Massage Therapist, Doula, Childbirth Educator, and Practitioner of Maya Abdominal Therapy. When she’s not busy catching babies, you can find her hiking, dancing to live music, or curled up with a good book.
Ivyrose Lopez (she/her) is currently a student midwife with Full Spectrum Midwifery. She came to birth work through a family culture of homebirth. Witnessing her sibling's births instilled in her a trust in the process and strength of families making informed choices about their own healthcare. Her doula training was completed in 2006 and she has supported families both at home and in the hospital since then. As a student at Birthwise Midwifery School in Maine, she is completing her academic training throughout the year while working with the Full Spectrum team for her hands-on practical training.
Meena Kumari Dieterich (she/her) began the academic portion of her midwifery education at Birthwise Midwifery School in 2020, and is thrilled to be joining the Full Spectrum Midwifery team for her clinical training. Born at home in Brooklyn, NY, she carries a life-long love of birth stories and community care into her midwifery work. Meena studied Anthropology and Reproductive Justice at Hampshire College, where her senior thesis explored the American birth care system through oral and archival histories. She is a Certified Lactation Counselor and DONA-trained birth doula, and has worked as a birth and abortion doula with the NYC-based volunteer collective The Doula Project since 2015.