Hello my name is Marianne Manley RN, CNM, I trained as a Nurse Midwife at the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney, Australia and graduated in 1987. I then retrained at a Nurse Midwife program affiliated with the University of San Jose, California, called EPA; because I heard that it was easier to be paid by insurance if I attended an accredited school in the USA. Although I have lived in California for most of my life I originally from Sweden. I have worked in hospitals, birth centers and done home births in Australia, Northern California and through, Christian Midwife Homebirth Service I have