Jackie Griggs, CNM, is a Certified Nurse Midwife who has been practicing in the Houston/Beaumont area for the past 35 years. She is a mom of 5 grown sons, 3 born at home with the help of midwives. – Two grandchildren and a new grand baby just recently. She has helped mainly with home and birth center births, but has worked in the hospital some as well. She is the owner of a birth center in Beaumont, – Birth Center of Beaumont – and also helps with home births in the Houston area. She has been on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Birth Centers, until just recently, and still is a very big advocate for midwifery care at a birth center or home, for the women of this country. She is also focused on training new midwifery students and helping to increase the number of birth centers in Texas and the United States

Erin Sing is a the program director for the Texas Tech Nurse Midwifery program, which is primarily a distance program, and a midwife in Houston, TX. She has also held various volunteer roles in the American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM) and the state affiliate of ACNM, known at the Consortium of Texas Certified Nurse Midwives.

Jackie Griggs, CNM, & Erin Sing, CNM