Home Birth in San Diego
with Brooke Ray, Certified Nurse Midwife and Team. All Families are Welcome!

With Certified Nurse Midwife, Brooke Ray, Licensed Midwife Brigid Merritt, Certified Nurse Midwife, Elizabeth Bradford, you get decades of midwife experience and wisdom. They bring everything to you for a safe and satisfying homebirth.

Experience

Brooke has attended over 2000 births as a midwife and has a variety of experience working in a hospital, a birth center, and homes. The importance of experience can’t be understated when it comes to safety. It makes all the difference!

CNM Privileges

Being a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) comes with some bonuses! CNM's can prescribe medications for you if needed AND we are the only home birth midwives in San Diego who have a back up physician. So if you need to transfer to the hospital, you'll have a natural birth-friendly provider waiting for you.

We Accept Tricare and Medi-Cal and Aetna and Cigna!

Brooke accepts Tricare and MediCal insurances to better meet your needs

A Midwife's Story

Meet Brooke Ray

Brooke’s path to midwifery began with the homebirths of her own children. They sparked in her a passion for guarding the sacredness of birth that still burns in her today.

After the births of her own three children she became a doula, a childbirth educator and a midwife’s apprentice. As her children grew she went to Nursing School to become a Registered Nurse and then earned a Master’s Degree in Midwifery from UCSF.  Her first job as a Certified Nurse Midwife was at the UCSD Birth Center. She worked there for six years before starting her own homebirth practice. Homebirth was her original inspiration and continues to be her favorite setting for childbirth.

Throughout her career she has been committed to making homebirth more accessible for all and has worked hard to meet the requirements to contract with MediCal and Tricare.

20+

Years Of Midwifery Excellence

1000's of

Happy Clients

Top Tier

Suturing Skills

100's of

Referrals & Resources

Our Services

What We Offer

We offer all this, and more! For a full list of services, click here.

The San Diego Home Birth Package

A home birth with our team is all inclusive. You get all your prenatal testing, prenatal visits, labor & birth, a water birth option, and postpartum home visits in this package. Our intimate team will be at all of your prenatal visits, your birth and the follow up visits making this a great option for people who want to know and bond with the team who will be at their birth.

Convenient Midwife Office

The Homebirth Midwife office is clean and modern and centrally located in Mission Valley. It is a dynamic space shared with a chiropractor, who specializes in pregnancy and newborn babies. Childbirth Education classes are also held here.

Insurance Billing Services

After your baby is born and it comes time to submit a claim to your insurance company for reimbursement, Maureen George offers insurance billing services.

What's all the hype about....

Water Birth

Water boasts several benefits, the most striking being it’s ability to decrease the pain of labor. It provides instant relief for almost everyone who tries it!

Other benefits of laboring in the water are:

  • Ease of movement, which can make labor more efficient
  • Improved circulation
  • Reduced risk of vaginal tearing

Class Schedule

Praise

What Our Clients Say

  • Brooke, Brigid, and Elizabeth were all truly incredible from start to finish. Being the husband there were a lot of concerns and worries ahead of the birth. When the day... read more

    Matthew Meech Avatar Matthew Meech
    February 18, 2026

    Brooke and Brigid are amazing and I feel so positive about my whole birth experience! I felt so safe with them, and empowered to have had the birth I dreamed... read more

    Roslyn Patrick-Sunnes Avatar Roslyn Patrick-Sunnes
    February 18, 2026

    Brooke and Brigid are phenomenal. They became part of our family. I want to have another baby just to work with them again! They are professional but so warm and... read more

    Monica P Avatar Monica P
    February 3, 2026

    I knew from the beginning of pregnancy that I wanted to have a home birth if possible, even as a first time mom, and sought out midwife care in San... read more

    Margaret Chiu Avatar Margaret Chiu
    January 17, 2026
  • We had our first child with Brooke and her team, and they were incredible from start to finish. Brooke and Brigid were both so warm, empathetic, and made us feel... read more

    Sophie Edwards Avatar Sophie Edwards
    January 5, 2026

    I had 4 other consultations before choosing Brooke Ray and Brigid to be my midwives and I’m so glad I listened to my gut. I was hoping for a successful... read more

    Sophie Whitney Avatar Sophie Whitney
    November 14, 2025

    Brooke and Brigid were my birth team for my first baby and home birth. We were connected to Brooke through a mutual friend and after meeting in person, we felt... read more

    Cori Gacad Avatar Cori Gacad
    October 6, 2025

    Before I found Brooke, navigating menopause felt overwhelming and isolating, but she changed everything! From our first appointment, she was warm, approachable, and incredibly knowledgeable. She has such a calm,... read more

    April Wilder Avatar April Wilder
    May 10, 2025
  • Brooke Ray and her team were amazing. They were professional, kind, friendly, and knowledgeable. I did not have to worry about their care throughout the process. Wonderful experience with this... read more

    Tiffany Callaway Avatar Tiffany Callaway
    March 25, 2025

    The whole time I was under Brooke’s care, I felt so deeply taken care of. Physically, mentally, emotionally. This was my first homebirth, and I am so glad that I... read more

    Sey Pitton Avatar Sey Pitton
    November 26, 2024

    We are so grateful to have had Brooke supporting us through our fourth pregnancy & first home birth. Brooke and her team were amazing— they are super friendly and professional,... read more

    Jessica Hickey Avatar Jessica Hickey
    July 25, 2024

    Brooke was my midwife for my second pregnancy and I am beyond grateful for her thoughtful care throughout the whole process. She took the time at each prenatal appointment to... read more

    Ariana Brookshier Avatar Ariana Brookshier
    July 6, 2024

Our Team

Meet Our Team

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Brooke Ray

CNM, RN

Brigid Merritt

Licensed Midwife

Maureen George

Office Manager & Biller

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