Meet Your Midwife

Rachel Marriott is a Licensed Midwife and Certified Professional Midwife. She graduated from the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine with her undergraduate degree in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Studies (a philosophy of public health) while working as a doula and Emergency Medical Technician in the Los Angeles area.

After graduating from USC, she attended the National College of Midwifery, and received her midwifery degree in 2013. She has attended home and birth center births as a midwife all throughout Southern California, as well as overseas in the Philippines. She also teaches clinical midwifery skills for several midwifery colleges, including Midwives College of Utah, Mercy in Action College of Midwifery, and her alma mater National College of Midwifery, where she has been a preceptor since 2017.

Rachel brings calm, supportive energy to the births she attends, as well as a passion for family-centered care. She had home births with all three of her pregnancies, and is so grateful to the amazing midwives who supported her along the way.

In 2021, Rachel became the first out of hospital midwife in Ventura County to precept for California State University Channel Island’s Family Nurse Practitioner program.

In 2023, Rachel became the Vice President: Birth Center Division for the Ventura County Midwives Association (VCMA). With VCMA, she has helped develop and teach a Different Roles, Common Goals presentation to medical students and doctors at a local transferring hospital educating on the Midwifery Model of Care, scope of practice, and midwifery integration into the existing medical framework; and spearheaded Improving Transfers from Planned Community Birth to Hospital sessions with both EMS workers and Ventura County Fire Department leadership. 

In 2025, Rachel successfully led Simi Valley Birth Center to achieve Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers (CABC) accreditation, becoming the only accredited birth center in all of Southern California as of the time of this writing.

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I am so thankful I found you just in time for my delivery. Thank you for helping me have the delivery I wanted and for all your support after. We will always remember your role in the birth of our first son.
Pear
You played a big part in keeping us calm, normalizing and even boosting our spirits when the road felt bumpy
Melissa
Thank you so much for being there for our birth experience. Given all the circumstances, I think it was the most ideal it could have been -- I felt good and informed on all the decisions we made and really empowered -- thanks to you!!
Mor
I greatly appreciate you taking such good care of me. Thank you, thank you for your kindness, time and stitching (you did a wonderful job; I did not feel any pain during my healing process).
Rebekah
Thank you so much for making my delivery exactly what I wished for. You never left my side and that was so integral in each step and each choice that was made.
Sarena
We would like to thank you so much for your kindness, care, and compassion in helping us through the birth of our baby. You have made the whole birthing experience more smooth and calming… for both of us.
Norma