Birth & Babies Spotlight

Mercy Oceans Midwifery

Dania Shelton, LM, CPM
In Business Since 2010

Dania Shelton serves the community and future generations as a homebirth midwife, helping people fully bloom into parenting. She built her practice over 13 years while mothering her own 5 children. Now a grandmother, she continues to offer a full scope of care for pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Her services include customized education on labor, birth, breastfeeding and early parenting.
Dania’s children and her husband have always been supportive of her midwifery. “The greatest thing for me has been to be the midwife for my grandchildren,” she shares. “I hope that because of the support families receive, they discover a strength that allows them to emerge confident and ready to face all the continued challenges of parenting and life.” Dania encourages parents to embrace pregnancy, learning as much as they can. “Trust your instincts and no one loves your baby more than you do.”

Mercy Oceans Midwifery serves Butte, Tehama, Glenn, Yuba and Sutter Counties
mercyoceansmidwifery.com

FemFit Redding

Mikilah Speer, Founder, Head Coach, Prenatal & Postpartum Specialist
In Business Since 2021

Mikilah Speer saw a gap in the fitness industry for pregnant and postpartum women. Determined to create a solution, she created FemFit, a team of fitness professionals who offer a holistic approach to fitness for women, including a plethora of workshops and classes in breathwork, pelvic floor health, menstrual cycle education and training, nutrition support for optimal hormone health and support for pregnant and postpartum women through fitness. Her team appropriately modifies functional strength & conditioning movements to support women through their seasons of life.
FemFit has been a great success, facing the need to expand several times in the past three years! Mikilah is a mother of three children who get to witness her empowering women everyday. “Women bring their daughters to the gym and we are all setting a beautiful example of strength, self-care, connection, and so much more. Its a beautiful thing to not only lead, but be a part of.”

FemFit Redding serves Shasta County
femfitredding.com

Three Moons Doula & Photography

Mikalyn Zacharias, Doula & Photographer
In Business Since 2021

Born and raised in the North State, Mikalyn’s passion for birth began at the birth of her daughter in 2013. She shares the electricity and magic of birth with women through her photography and services as a doula. Her mission is to encourage women to feel confident and powerful during their birthing experience while capturing precious moments with her birth photography.
“My doula told me while pregnant that, ‘you’re the one delivering your baby, not me, not the midwife, not your husband, YOU!’ That always stuck with me because, as a doula, it taught me that I’m simply the quiet confidence in the room, the guiding light needed to help in a difficult moment and the rest is up to her.”
As an entrepreneur and mother, Mikalyn is grateful that her children and husband support her mission. The three moons in her name represent her children and her husband as well as the cycle of womanhood.

Three Moons Doula & Photography serves all counties in the North State
threemoonsdoula.mypixieset.com

Dandy Lions Children’s Shop

Jessica Sylvia, Owner
In Business Since 2009

Jessica Sylvia enjoys helping her customers find memorable gifts for their loved ones that will be passed down for generations. Her favorite childhood toys were ones that she made special memories shopping for with her grandparents. Delighted to share this nostalgic journey, she brings happiness to her customers and a personal experience as they explore her cute and whimsical children’s shop.
Dandy Lions Children’s Shop is the only children’s specialty store in Tehema county. “There is nothing like my store,” Jessica says with joy as she explains her passion for the historic building and the creativity and care she put into designing a memorable experience. She puts a lot of effort into using minimal packaging and sourcing quality, nontoxic and sustainable products for people to enjoy for a long time. Locals and travelers love discovering her shop as she often has regulars that stop in from their I-5 route.

Dandy Lions is located in the historic downtown of Red Bluff.
623 Main St, Red Bluff • dandylions.shop

Luna Madre Midwifery

Katarra Shaw, LM, IBCLC
In Business Since 2006

Katarra Shaw has been a midwife for her entire adult life. Home birth midwifery is a medium for her passion in reproductive justice and her love of miracles and the human body. She believes that birth is sacred and the initiation into parenthood created by pregnancy, birth and the postpartum time can be transformative when people feel safe, respected and supported in their choices.
Katarra practices with evidence-based informed consent, a mindful presence, a compassionate heart and gentle hands. As an educator, she has trained many new midwives and continues to share her wisdom and knowledge in the birth community.
She says, “The childbearing year, which encompasses pregnancy, birth and postpartum is a time of huge transformation, of celebration and grief and an opportunity to access unique parts of our psyches as we become the vessel for new life.”

Luna Madre Midwifery serves Butte, Glenn, Tehama, and Sutter Counties
Chico • lunamadremidwifery.com

Sacred Mountain Harmonics

Donna Bringenberg
In Business Since 2022

Donna Bringenberg has spent more than 40 years in Mount Shasta helping women as a traditional midwife, doula and birth assistant; and has also worked with children with sensory processing issues and autism spectrum disorder. After personally experiencing the benefits of the Harmonic Egg, she was moved to bring this innovative energy healing force to Mt. Shasta.

The Harmonic Egg® is a patented technology that delivers the frequencies of light, sound, and color to the body in a resonant chamber. The chamber was designed in a dodecahedron shape, and it incorporates Tesla mathematics, sacred geometry and the Golden Mean Ratio within its construction. Sessions can help relieve stress and calm down hypersensitivities, restoring balance to the mind, body and spirit.
Donna offers a sliding scale and says, “During these difficult times on the planet where people are having crises of many different kinds, the Harmonic Egg is an available tool to bring us back to center so that we can make good decisions for ourselves and those we love.”

Sacred Mountain Harmonics serves the North State and visitors in Mount Shasta
Mount Shasta • sacredmountainharmonics.com

Heirus Midwifery

Catherine DeVeau, LM, CPM
In Business Since 2021

Catherine DeVeau is changing the world by helping provide healthy foundations for life in assisting families through intentional pregnancy, birth, and parenting. As a licensed home birth midwife she also offers craniosacral fascial therapy (CFT), a bodywork modality that releases fascial strain and trauma. CFT can help alleviate issues in infants such as: oral tethered ties, colic, spit up, torticollis, constipation, indigestion and more.

Catherine was motivated by personal experience to add CFT to her offerings as she saw radical results in her own body. “The legacy/vision I want to leave behind is that we can change the course of history by choosing to be intentional with the processes of life. We can choose to partner with our bodies and our babies as they grow and really we can circumvent trauma before it has the power to ‘stick’ and affect generations to come.”

Heirus Midwifery serves Shasta, Trinity, Tehama, and Butte Counties
Redding • heirusmidwifery.com

Life Light Pregnancy Help Center

In Business Since 1981

Life Light Pregnancy Help Center is a woman-led, Christian nonprofit that supports women in a pregnancy crisis by offering a comprehensive overview of options and resources free of judgment. Services at the Center are geared for women who are in an unplanned pregnancy or need help during a pregnancy and parenting. The Center does not provide any health or medical services including birth control or emergency contraceptives, prenatal care, and STI/STD testing.  It does not provide nor refer to abortion services or providers.
Center volunteers consist of experienced parents and grandparents who share a wealth of knowledge and wisdom with the women and parents who seek help. They offer mentoring and teach classes in pregnancy and parenting, mental health and life skills such as managing a home and developing healthy relationships. Women who attend the classes earn points which can be exchanged for products in the baby boutique.

According to Executive Director Cindy Herzog, “Life is sacred at any stage and we have pregnancy options. We are a safe place to explore your pregnancy choices.”

Life Light Pregnancy Help Center serves the greater Redding area and Shasta County
Redding • lifelightcenter.org

Redding Midwifery Group

Naomi Bjorgan, LM, CPM
Mariah Van Dyke, LM, CPM
Te’sa Lubans DeHaven, LM, CPM
In Business Since 2021

Redding Midwifery Group aims to normalize birth in a loving and welcoming community while offering a place to birth at the Redding Birth Center, established in 2018. The group’s success is apparent from the many stories shared from one mama to another, suggesting a safe and trusted space to birth with this team of licensed midwives.

RMG midwives practice evidence-based maternity care for healthy women choosing to give birth out of the hospital. Mothers can choose a water birth, either at home and at the birth center, which is fully equipped for all low-risk pregnancies and deliveries, including VBACs.

RMG provides holistic gynecological care, functional bloodwork, and lab testing along with midwifery care. They are also a great resource for new parents seeking local support.

Redding Midwifery Group serves Redding and the surrounding area.
Redding • reddingmidwiferygroup.com