Our Staff
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Peggy Cohen, LM, CPM
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Peggy Cohen 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 and midwives. She is delighted to join forces with April Vanderveer and Shari Corr to provide quality care to the families they serve. |
April Vanderveer
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April Vanderveer is a Certified Nurse Midwife who has trained and worked in women’s healthcare since 1998. She originally assisted Peggy Cohen at Full Spectrum Midwifery from 1998-2000. She then went on to earn her nursing degree and worked at the Women’s Center at Copley for 11 years. She completed her Midwifery training at Georgetown University in 2014, and since then has been working as a midwife in Vermont. She loves helping women across the lifespan, specializing in pregnancy, birth, fertility, contraception and menopause. She is excited to rejoin Peggy at her full scope midwifery practice in Burlington.
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Shari Corr is currently a student midwife and is thrilled to be apprenticing with Full Spectrum Midwifery. She is the proud mother of two daughters, Ananda and Joya, both born at home with Full Spectrum Midwifery. Shari is a certified Massage Therapist, Birth Doula, Childbirth Educator, and owner of Ten Moons Massage and Doula Services. Shari has received training in Mayan Abdominal Massage and advanced training in pregnancy techniques from Rosita Arvigo herself at the Arvigo Institute.