Birth Care Midwives

Staff Midwives

Merrylee Morschhauser

Certified nurse-midwife
Quality assurance
Interim clinical director
Merrylee grew up in a large family, and remembers being present at the home births of her younger siblings, which fueled her passion for midwifery and out-of-hospital birth. She graduated wth a BSN from Messiah College, and took a job in high-risk labor and delivery in Philadelphia while studying for her MSN in midwifery and women's health at the University of Pennsylvania. While she has much experience in high-risk OB, her passion has always been for normal, out-of-hospital birth, and she has worked at Birth Care since receiving her midwifery degree in 2010. She is our quality assurance coordinator, and does occasional clinical shifts as well. She lives in western Pennsylvania with her husband and her three children, all of whom were birthed out-of-hospital with Birth Care midwives.

Jaime Lynn Lewis

Certified nurse-midwife
Jaime Lynn was a Birth Care nurse for many years before she became a midwife. Her soft voice and gentle ways calm the storms of labor. Her children, now totaling three, were Birth Care babies as well!

Bonnie Gruenberg

Certified nurse-midwife
Bonnie U. Gruenberg is a certified nurse midwife and a women’s health nurse practitioner. She obtained her MSN in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. After a decade working in tertiary hospitals and attending 1500 births, she returned to attending births out-of-hospital at Birth Care. Bonnie authors and illustrates books about obstetrical topics, and also about her other passion, wild horses. She is author of the book Birth Emergency Skills Training: Manual for Out-of-hospital Providers, She has two grown children, two horses, and one husband. She also raises fancy chickens in her backyard. Visit her website at www.BonnieGruenberg.com

Rose Fisher

Certified nurse-midwife
Rose Fisher is a certified nurse-midwife with more than a decade of experience as a doula, midwife’s apprentice, and nurse. She volunteered at a mission clinic/birth center for 3 years in Paraguay, South America, where she acted in the role of primary midwife. She is passionate about evidence-based mother/baby care. She loves working in the gentle, nurturing environment at Birth Care as a certified nurse-midwife. It provides her with the fantastic opportunity of serving women and watching the miracle of new life being birthed every day.