The Wild Moon Story

Wild Moon Midwifery & Healing Arts came into being the way so many callings do: by listening closely to what was needed and responding with an open heart. When my family and I moved to the Methow Valley in 2013, I was still completing my clinical residency. Everywhere I turned, I heard the same thing: our community needs a midwife. Families wanted a choice. They wanted someone local who could walk alongside them through pregnancy and birth, someone who could weave together skilled hands, a steady presence, and trust in the natural rhythms of the body. And so Wild Moon was born, out of the soil of this valley, out of my own journey of mothering and midwifery, out of the desire to tend birth as both ordinary and sacred. The name carries what I hold most dear: the wildness of birth, untamed and alive, and the cyclical, luminous mystery of the moon, always shifting, always returning. Together they remind me that every birth is its own season, its own story, its own initiation. At Wild Moon, we stand at the threshold with families. We witness. We protect. We walk with you through the fierce and tender passages, the joy, the intensity, and sometimes the sorrow. Because birth, in all its forms, is worth honoring.

Meet the Team

Meet Christina

I first felt the call to midwifery when I was pregnant with my daughter. I remember sitting across from midwives I was interviewing for my own homebirth and thinking, this is the work I want to do, talking about bodies, guiding people through pregnancy, walking with them into parenthood, holding space for both medicine and mystery. But my own first birth was not the shining story I had dreamed of. I lost my way in it. I found myself caring for everyone else in the room, my midwife, my doula, my mother, instead of standing fiercely for myself and my baby. I did not yet know how to trust myself enough to ask for what I truly needed. That labor broke me open. It taught me more than any class or apprenticeship ever could. Those lessons became the seeds of the midwife I was becoming. They asked me to grow fierceness, to grow tenderness, to grow trust in my own knowing. When I became pregnant with my son, I chose to step off the well-worn path. I carried him through an unassisted pregnancy and birthed him in ceremony, in my own home, clay and charcoal on my skin, leaves laid on my body, my breath carrying me into the den I had become. That birth healed me. It showed me the immense power of simplicity, trust, and the ancient wildness of the birthing body. I have walked a winding path of apprenticeship, study, ceremony, and clinical training. Along the way, I have attended many beautiful births, some straightforward and others tangled with complexity or grief. I have stood with families through miscarriage, stillbirth, and chosen endings, and I have stood with families as they roared life into the room. Each one has taught me more about what it means to serve at the gates, those gates that swing both ways, birth and death always near each other. This is the work I know I am meant to do. To be with families in the fierce and ordinary mystery of birth. To guard the wildness and variation that is normal. To lean on love and trust as the ground of my clinical judgment. To call on medicine when needed, but never let fear lead the way. I am, always, a student of birth. And I am endlessly grateful to every family who invites me into their story.

Alisa Cryer - Birth Assistant

Alisa (she/her/hers) is trained in Advanced Neonatal Resuscitation (NRP) and has experience serving birthing families as doula and birth assistant in home, birth center, and hospital settings. Alisa is a speech-language pathologist by training who developed a passion for birth work following her own labor and birth experiences. Finding a beautiful crossover between her clinical experiences in end-of-life care, in-home swallowing therapy, and the championing of families through the magic of labor and birth, Alisa is happy to be serving as a birth assistant and your extra pair of supportive hands. Alisa is a sweet-potato enthusiast who thinks every meal should be a “bowl” meal, is a longtime bookworm, and is happy to make herself at home doing dishes in your kitchen. Alisa, along with her husband Ben, is a transplant to the Wenatchee valley nearly 6 years ago. They quickly fell in love with Wenatchee’s people and offerings and bought a home here. When not working on their 1950’s house, Alisa can likely be found hiking, biking, painting, whipping up some baked goods to share with friends, or staring at pictures of her daughter who has just fallen asleep in the next room. You may also see Alisa’s fingerprints in the Wild Moon Midwifery back office, where she serves as an office administrator and records specialist so you and your midwife can focus your efforts on what matters most; you, your baby, and the wild, magical ride of birth. Service Range: Chelan and Douglas Counties

Mary-Jo Eddy - Student Midwife

Mary-Jo is a certified and skilled birth doula in all birth settings, an NRP certified birth assist, and is now training as a student midwife. She has been on an ongoing, ever-evolving journey in the birth realm over the last 6 years: from infertility, to miscarriage, to a mother of 1, to a mother of 2, to birth doula, to birth assist, to mother of 3, and now, midwifery! Each season of it has drawn her closer to the very essence of life and drawn out more depth, connection, wisdom, grace, love, reverence, humility, honesty, humor, and trust. All of this and more, she draws from as she cares for growing families on their journey through birth. Mary-Jo is native to the Wenatchee Valley and lives there with her husband and three daughters. Her greatest joys outside of birthwork are time spent cuddling with her husband, sipping warm tea, making memories with her daughters, worshipping Jesus, baking sourdough, learning, celebrating, and traveling. She is forever grateful to all the families who invite her into their story.

My Approach

My approach as a midwife is holistic, integrative, body-centered, systems-oriented, nature-based, and aims to empower and educate.

My Goal

My ultimate goal is to support you to make authentic choices for yourself, your baby, and your family from a place of embodied power, primal trust, and loving support.

I Believe

I believe in your autonomy as an individual.
I value your knowing of your body and your baby's body.
I trust your inherent belonging in the natural world.
I am here for you as you ask the big questions
I believe you will transform into the parent you long to become.