Rosanne Gephart, CNM, MSN, IBCLC

Breastfeeding Home Visit Program


Lactation Consultant

Santa Rosa, CA
Designation

IBCLC

Practicing Since

1981

Cost or Fee Range

Free (donor-supported)

Designation

IBCLC

Practicing Since

1981

Cost or Fee Range

Free (donor-supported)

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About

Bio

Rosanne is a certified nurse-midwife, (CNM), nurse practitioner (NP), and board certified lactation consultant, (IBCLC). She has 38 years experience working with mothers and babies in hospitals, birth centers, and homes. Rosanne is the founder of the Santa Rosa Birth Center, (formerly the Womens Health and Birth Center), in Santa Rosa, CA. Rosanne directed one of the first centers in the USA to be designated “Baby Friendly” by the World Health Organization. Rosanne has served in leadership and teaching positions in numerous state and national organizations that serve to promote the excellent care of midwives, birth centers and lactation professionals. She currently works as a midwife, lactation consultant and business consultant for numerous centers.

Associated with

Breastfeeding Home Visit Program

Location

583 Summerfield Road Santa Rosa California 95405


Languages

English, Spanish


Home visits

Yes


Lactation Expertise

Breast augmentation or reduction

Infants with anatomical challenges

Multiples

Relactation

Teens

Training and education

CNM MSN IBCLC

Reviews for Rosanne Gephart, CNM, MSN, IBCLC

Review by: D O W S
Written on: 04/28/2025
Age: 50s
Mother of: N/A
Worked together: N/A

‘Angels’, INDEED…ARE among us? 5 Stars

Angel
Umong
Us
TY
ROSANNE!

Why did you seek this provider's help?

~Because, every ‘’Doctor”, I had seen? TOO many? ‘White men in White coats?’ ALL…Said I could NOT concieve, “it’s IMPOSSIBLE”! So I kept, I think they call it ‘doctor shopping’? lol! silly isn’t it? Until someone, after so MANY?… “you’ll never(s)”… ~someone said, “midwife?”… I had NO idea WHAT ‘that’ even was? Boy, did I do some research? I just recently got confirmation, found out? I’m actually autistic? ASD? lol “disorder”? ~’they’re’ so weird! DIFFERENT???~Neurodivergent? Neurospicy? ‘Wierd.’ JUST different? Who knew? Lol ~THIS ANGEL??? Said, {and I QUOTE} (was like a ‘song’, to my ears…musical? .…MAGICAL, FINALLY? the ‘TRUTH’!) ~”YOU WERE ‘BORN’ FOR THIS!”… & ~”YOU ARE GOING TO ‘DO’ GREAT!” …AND… BOY WAS SHE ‘correct’! I SO HOPE she reads this & remembers… I hope it ALL comes ‘FLODDING’? back to her… I’m actually kind of ‘COUNTING’ on it? She instructed me to: ‘write a instruction sheet?’ … for each of my 2 children’s births? MY WISHES, IF it COULD… go best in that direction? Safely? Due to my special needs? ~More importantly? SHE HONORED IT, like MY WISHES, MATTERED. I’m not crying you are? ~she made sure?… ‘they’ honored it as close as they could safely? Things like NO drugs, I wanted to do it ‘naturally’? I WANTED to BE there, completely: energetically, physically, spiritually, ALL of that. I wanted to ‘FEEL’ it ALL? ... NO DRUGS! “NATURAL”! I do admit I change my mind for a few seconds when I got scary lol but it didn’t last. I was so grateful. She honored it and I was there entirely present except for the naps in between contractions lol WE EVEN HAD my first’s, Video recorded? Yeah I know? FILMED? A whole group of people too? Blood relations AND the ones I ‘adopted’ too? my SOUL family? Choosen? It WAS chaos AND perfect. ~That Angel even stayed with me the entire time TWO HOURS, precisely for each… …packing my bottom with warm washcloths? so I wouldn’t rip? or rip as little as possible as she explained to us, with a towel example? Remember Rosanne? I DO! Every nano/milli…second? Time slowed? ‘Time dilation’’, IS a thing. ~because I had also, refused a episiotomy… I refused it all. AND FOR VERY GOOD… ‘OVERLY’ REASEARCHED/TRUTHS FOR ME/MY SITUATION? ~”Don’t even WASH my babies, please?” …”NO injections? ‘Poking’?” …”nothing in the eyes, don’t take them away from me…” ‘yada yada yada’? ‘difficult’? yep. ~BUT SO POWERFUL FOR ME? ~as in, MY unique experiences? NEEDS. ~Changed my life? Gave me, Strength? …to continue, surviving it ALL? Till now? And THEM? ~BESTEST ‘kids?’ EVER?!? No more I admit, ‘kids’?… at least in society‘s eyes? 1992 & 1994… ALWAYS MY KIDS THOUGH? I am hoping? ~she now recalls, How VERY ‘physically challenged’ I was? “sick” …how I LOST weight pregnant and threw UP even looking at a vehicle? Trabutaline Rx?bedrest? Discussion of tying my cervix SHUT? I think that’s the name of the drug that stops preterm labor? when cntractions are TOO early? It’s NOT a fun medication… ~How just ‘Looking at’ a car? …it didn’t even have to be ‘ON’ Running? …I VOMITED EVERYTHING UP AGAIN? -How with my first? ‘Bugge’ lmafo? ~I only was ABLE? ~to breast-feed…I think it was six weeks?… before I had dropped SO VERY low, my own body weight? …they told me, I HAD to stop. ~ I think I was pre-birthweight of like 100 pounds when I left the hospital? BOTH TIMES? It was so close… it has always been an issue of mine?… with MY health issues and ‘challenges’? ~ROSANNE? ~If you are ABLE, please contact me? … I REALLY need that MAGIC? …one more time? If I got a chance In ‘H**L’ of surviving? Those white men in white coats? Again? …ugh! do you recall, The DIFFERENCE? between the two? Birth experiences So close together also? How VERY different they ‘felt’? I believe you did? Do you know why? Hoping… TY, For EVERYTHING! D

Relevant Background
  • Multiples
  • Vaginal Birth
  • Latch Issues
  • Supply Issues
  • Unmedicated Birth
  • Weaning

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