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Corina Hossle, CPM LM – Founder, Clinical Director & Midwife

Corina ordered her first “How to Become a Midwife” book in 1992, but raising three children, homeschooling, and running several businesses got in the way of her dream. At 42, with her kids leaving home and her life shifting, she decided to make the leap!

Corina doula’d her way through midwifery school, serving high risk mothers who were provided doulas for support. She attended National Midwifery Institute, which is accredited by the Midwifery Education Accreditation Counsel. She passed her North American Registry of Midwives test in 2012, and became a Certified Professional Midwife.

Since beginning her journey, she has worked with 13 different midwives at over 300 birth center or home births. She spent months assisting Hispanic women on the border of Mexico who spoke no English, has witnessed Amish women give birth by lamplight, has attended doctor’s wives who chose home birth and placenta encapsulation, and has sat with hippy mamas singing to their babies under full moons. Corina even spent 18 months as a staff midwife at the only freestanding birth center in the Caribbean, working with island families in Trinidad and Tobago.

After teaching at an accredited midwifery school in Florida for several months, Corina decided that Richmond VA was the place to open her birth center, and she came to RVA on a mission! Embrace Midwifery Care & Birth Center (and Embrace Wellness Collective!) is her dream come true.

“The truth is, all women birth in similar ways and they all know how to do it. It’s Intuitive. My vision is to create space and support so that women can access that intuition and birth with joy.”

Linsey Kornya, CPM LM – Staff Midwife

After the gentle home birth of her first son in 2005 in Saint Louis, Missouri, Linsey felt the calling to midwifery. She loved giving birth, and felt transformed by this powerful first birth experience. The experience of support and autonomy she had with a midwife in an out of hospital setting, helped ease the transition to motherhood.

She felt driven to increase the options for growing families in St. Louis; at the time there were very few options for out-of-hospital birth, or even for in-hospital midwifery care. Linsey started an apprenticeship in Missouri in 2006.She was lucky enough to work with several different midwives on her journey, and interned at the same birth center in El Paso as Corina. Linsey opened a homebirth practice in 2010 in the City of St. Louis, and expanded quickly to a partnership practice and small birth center.

Linsey loved serving her community in Missouri, and is sad to leave her families there, but is excited to serve her new community in Richmond. She moved to Richmond in the fall of 2017 with her husband and three children to be closer to family and to work with Corina at Embrace. She loves the energy, excellent care and excitement at Embrace and is thrilled to be a part of it.

Committed to helping other women birth on their terms, Linsey is dedicated to combining the art of midwifery with evidence-based medicine. Witnessing and supporting the hard, beautiful and private
work it takes to bring new life to the world is an honor and responsibility she takes very seriously. She has a passion for physiological, out-of-hospital birth which she believes can be safe, beautiful, empowering and sometimes even transformative. She also loves supporting clients through the first tender weeks postpartum and helping every family transition to their new normal as smoothly as possible. Even after helping at over 350 births, Linsey still sometimes sheds a tear or two of joy, _and remembers details from each and every birth. Helping usher new life into the world really is the best work imaginable and does not get old.

Adrianna Ross, CPM LM – Staff Midwife

My calling to become a midwife blossomed in 2003. I welcomed our son at home under the gentle guidance of a midwife.  My goal as a midwife is to provide accurate, evidence-based information so families can make the best choices for THEM. I provide professional, safe, holistic care.

As a mother, midwife and herbalist I have sought educational paths that honor traditional wisdom.  This has allowed our family to travel and live in amazing places across the country.  We built an off-grid cabin in the woods, raised livestock and tended gardens. Now settling in Richmond Virginia, I hope to share this wisdom of birth and life with the RVA community.

Attending births for over a decade, I provide women with individualized care that meets their unique needs.  I have worked in various out of hospital practices, from high volume birth centers to rural community practices.   I am certified in Advanced Women Herbal studies, hold a degree in poetry from Virginia Commonwealth University and am a Virginia Licensed Midwife and nationally certified as a Professional Midwife through the North American Registry of Midwives. I am currently working towards professional membership in the American Herbalist Guild. I maintain certifications in Neonatal Resuscitation and CPR and am constantly educating myself via workshops and trainings to stay current on evidence based research and protocols.

AMY CHANDLER – OFFICE MANAGER

Amy is a graduate of the University of Richmond and has worked in medical offices here in Richmond, in Northwest Ohio, and most recently comes to us from an ob/gyn in Rochester, NY. She and her husband are excited to be back in the Richmond area, this time with their two toddlers in tow! In her free time Amy loves to be outside with her family, practicing yoga, and going to see live music.

“When we moved back to Virginia I was so excited to hear that Richmond would be adding their first midwife-run birth center! Bringing a child into the world is such a powerfully beautiful thing, and I’m thrilled to be working with such a great group of women on what I think will be an awesome addition to the RVA birth community.”