About Queen City Birth Services

Meet Our Birth Center Team
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Erin Murphy, CPM, LM
Certified Professional Midwife
​Licensed Midwife
Erin is the mother of five sons, and has been attending births as a birth worker for 17+ years. In addition to attending births in the out-of-hospital setting as a midwife, she provides childbirth education classes, and placenta encapsulation services. Erin created Queen City Birth Services LLC in 2018 to help fill the need for resources for expecting families in Staunton, VA and Augusta county. In 2020, Erin opened Augusta County's only freestanding birth center in Fishersville, VA.
Erin was born at home herself, and she grew up in a culture that supported the normal physiology and sanctity of birth. This upbringing instilled in her a deep respect and reverence for the profound impact of the birth experience on growing families. Erin started doula work in 2002 and began her clinical midwifery training in 2016, Erin has also earned her Midwifery Bridge Certificate through the North American Registry of Midwives which satisfies US MERA and ICM educational competencies. She is CPR and Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certified.
 By choosing to receive prenatal, birth, and postpartum care with Erin Murphy, you will receive top quality midwifery care, with continuity of care, at an affordable fee. 
Erin also holds a doctoral degree in music, and teaches part-time at two local universities as an adjunct professor of music. In her free time, she enjoys riding her two mustangs, and farming sheep and goats with her family.
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Olivia Moran,
Birth Assistant, Advanced Student Midwife.
 Olivia is a a mother of 6, who believes all people deserve the birth they want. She
started in birth work in 2004. It began with the pregnancy and birth of her oldest child.
Researching all kinds of birth, the history of birth, and how we birth today. In 2015, Olivia,
received her Doula training from Breath of Life Midwifery, in Roanoke VA. She gained her La
Leche League Leader certification in 2016. Olivia currently still runs LLL Roanoke. During her
Doula work, Olivia become more inspired to become a Midwife. She began her journey as an
apprentice Midwife in 2017, with Breath of Life Midwifery. She spent four years as an
apprentice with Breath of Life and then one year as a student Luna Midwifery. Olivia finished
her apprenticeship in 2020. In 2020, Olivia was accepted to nursing school and will graduate in
May of 2022. During her apprenticeship, Olivia completed Lactation Educator training and
became a certified Lactation Counselor. Olivia plans on becoming a Certified Professional
Midwife (CPM), Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) and an International Board Certified Lactation
Consultant(IBCLC).
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Amy Estep,
Birth Assistant
Amy and her husband of 13 years have three children together--two boys, 13 and 9, and a daughter who is 2. Her husband is a USMC combat veteran.
All three of Amy's births were different, but she realized after the birth of her second son that she found her "spark," and has been interested in birth work ever since. 
Amy is NRP and CPR certified, and has completed childbirth education coursework specific to natural, physiologic birth to better know how to support laboring families. Amy is  excited to work alongside the brith center team while meeting and helping care for area women and their sweet little ones. At your birth you will often find Amy quietly charting and offering gentle labor support should you request it. 
In her spare time, Amy likes vacations to the beach, geocaching, watching documentaries, and long walks through Target.
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Leah Rhodes, 
Student Midwife
Leah Rhodes is student midwife, working towards her CPM credential. She is also a DONA International trained birth doula offering services to expectant families in Staunton, Augusta County, and the surrounding areas. Leah is an Augusta County native, wife and mother of three. She became inspired to become a birth worker after the planned homebirth of her second daughter. Her journey as a birth worker started in March, 2018 when she attended a birth doula training workshop by DONA International. Leah believes that birth is a natural physiological event that should be trusted and that parents should have control of their care, be able to ask questions and make informed choices. She also believes in honoring the parents and their individual wishes/wants/needs for their own unique birth journey. To supplement her doula training she has expanded her knowledge of pregnancy, labor, and birth thru classes and one-on-one training specific to labor support of natural birth. Leah is NRP and CPR certified. Leah regularly works as an apprentice with midwives in Roanoke--so we don't get to see Leah as often as we like--but when we are lucky enough to have her at births, she can often be found charting, offering labor support, or assisting the midwife. 
Queen City Birth Services LLC
1610 Goose Creek Rd.
​Fishersville, VA 22939
540-435-3907
QueenCityBirthServices@gmail.com