Oak Grove Midwifery

Rachelle Canady, CPM has been attending births in the Rogue Valley since 1997 and is passionate about supporting women and their families as they journey through the many wonders of pregnancy and childbirth.   She believes strongly that birth is normal and is continually awed at the strength and beauty of the women she works with as they trust their bodies and welcome their babies!

Originally trained through the apprenticeship model, she also interned in a clinical setting in the Philippines, as well as completing an academic midwifery program.  She received her national midwifery certification in 2009 and anticipates state licensure in 2012.  She is the mother of two gorgeous girls who continue to teach her more lessons than she could ever imagine teaching them.      

Jenn Head, LDM, CPM, LM, is a Certified Professional Midwife, an Oregon & California  Licensed Midwife and doula that has been attending births since 2001. She finds the journey of growing a baby and family exciting, and trusts wholly in the birthing process. She completed midwifery school at the International School of Traditional Midwifery in 2007 and did her clinical internships in the United States and in the Philippines.  

She has also spent time as a Senior Staff Midwife in Attiak, Uganda working with the organization Earth Birth, now Mother Health International.

International midwifery is a passion for her, and hopes to create a practice and lifestyle that allows her to travel and serve worldwide.

She lives in Ashland, and is married to her best friend of 20+ years. They have three awesome girls.

 Jessica "Veege" Ruediger, CPM, PPD first began attending births in Southern Oregon in 1996 as an apprentice and student midwife. In 2003, she earned a parallel BA in Women's Reproductive Lives: Biology, Evolution and Culture from Western Washington University in Bellingham Washington. During her time in Washington, she also completed training to become a Postpartum Doula from Seattle Midwifery School. She returned to the Rogue Valley to start a family, where both of her daughters were born at home. 

Meanwhile, she spent the next several years practicing the fine art of balancing parenting two young children with midwifery training, attending homebirths as an apprentice and an assistant midwife. In the summer of 2010, she interned at Mercy Maternity Center in Davao City, Philippines. She received her national midwifery  certification in 2011, and is Certified Professional Midwife.  She was voted one of southern Oregon's favorite midwives in Oregon Healthy Living of 2011.