Robin Sharples-Ray, CNM

Robin has been in birth work for over two decades, long before she ever set foot in a nursing program. She started as a childbirth educator in 1997, founded AZ Womb Service LLC in 2005 to provide midwifery and doula care, and became a Certified Professional Midwife through years of hands-on home birth experience. That deep well of community-based birth work eventually led her to formalize her education, earning her BSN from Northern Arizona University and her Master of Science in Nursing from the University of New Mexico, a program built around improving the health of underserved populations. Her clinical training has spanned university hospitals and rural clinics across New Mexico, including the Rehoboth Clinic in Gallup and Lovelace Regional Hospital in Roswell, and she has volunteered at the Mama Baby Haiti Birth Center. Robin's philosophy is simple and deeply held: health literacy and shared decision-making are the foundation of everything. When patients understand their options and feel heard, outcomes improve, not just for one birth, but for a lifetime.