Meet the Midwives & Team

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Metro Area Midwives & Allied Services

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Mairi Breen Rothman

Mairi Breen Rothman, CNM, DM, FACNM

My interest in birth started when I had my first baby, and then became a Bradley childbirth educator. My first career was as a modern dancer and choreographer, but the first time I saw a birth that was not my own, I thought to myself, “I could never make a dance that good!” Gradually moving along the path to midwifery, I had three more children. I have given birth once in the hospital with a doctor, once in the hospital with a midwife, and twice at home with a midwife—or two!

I have had a long-held dream of being “the village midwife,” serving people who live right around me, and holding the space for them to have the births that they envision for themselves, no matter what their circumstances. I was so happy to find Erin Fulham CNM and learn that we shared the same dream, which led us to start M.A.M.A.S., the first home birth midwifery service based in Takoma Park! Erin is now retired, but Emily, Luisely, and I continue to live the dream of offering state-of-the-art, personalized, evidence-based care to women and people assigned female at birth, throughout the lifespan.

We are interested in hearing about every aspect of our client’s lives and are passionately committed to providing state-of-the-art, client-centered perinatal care, breastfeeding, early parenting, gyn care, fertility services, primary care, and urgent care. My most deeply-held belief is that every woman and birthing person is entitled to autonomy, respect, and compassionate care, and full authority over their body and their health.

I completed my midwifery training at the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing in 1996, and in 2019 became one of the first eight Doctors of Midwifery in the U.S. (through the Midwifery Institute at Jefferson). When I am not catching babies, I love to read, go to the movies, and sing.

Mairi Breen Rothman

A few of my favorite things...

Favorite Book: The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk

Favorite Movies: Contact, Love Actually

Favorite Musicians: Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Michael Jackson, Gloria Estefan, and my own kids (look for “epuline” on soundcloud.com)!

Alex Fitzpatrick MSN, SCNM, RN

Alex Fitzpatrick, MSN, SCNM, RN

Alex has attended births since 2014 when she shadowed M.A.M.A.S. and fell in love with the physiologic and patient-centered care they provide. She quickly became a Certified Birth Doula, while an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. Upon graduating (Double Major in Spanish and Women’s & Gender Studies), she moved back to Baltimore, Maryland, to attend Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She became heavily involved in the Birth Companions program, which trains student nurses to provide free doula support and received her MSN in 2020. Since then, Alex has worked as a Labor and Delivery nurse, bringing as much physiologic, gentle, evidence-based care as possible to the hospital setting.

She began Midwifery School in 2022 at Frontier Nursing University and will graduate in 2024. She is also a clinical instructor for Hopkins and CCBC students and adores teaching new nurses to be patient advocates and critical thinkers in the medical space. In her free time, she loves long runs with her partner and two dogs, DIY-projects around the house, and crime podcasts. Alex is so grateful to M.A.M.A.S. for igniting her passion for birth-work and so excited to work with you!

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Leslie Hill Jenkins

Leslie has three children—the first born in a Boston area hospital, and the next two born at home in Maryland. After the birth of her second child, she traded in her administrative role at a Fortune 500 company for the satisfaction of using her considerable skills to support her family, and home birth midwifery.

Leslie came to M.A.M.A.S. after working with several area midwives for 5 years and homeschooling her children Leslie says that M.A.M.A.S. and home birth is not about catching babies, but building strong healthy families. Leslie sees her role in supporting families as helping clients manage everything about having a baby that involves PAPER, from billing, to insurance, to FMLA forms, to registering your birth, and is also happy to dispense invaluable parenting advice based on the wisdom gained through parenting three children. When not arguing with insurance companies on your behalf, Leslie enjoys helping with the Maryland 4-H aerospace program, challenging herself at the gym, and cheering on her football-star youngest child, who is headed off to play college football in the Fall of 2023.