WomanCare

WomanCare also provides health care for women who are not pregnant: annual exams, birth control, Pap smears, screening and treatment of sexually transmitted infections, bladder infections and vaginal infections...and more LeAnn van den Bosch is a midwife who will be there for you and with you. She has more than 30 years of experience in women's hea... lth care: welcoming more than 700 babies, providing innumerable exams, diagnoses, prescriptions and hours spent guiding you and listening to your needs. WomanCare's office is located in Winona, MN My interest in midwifery began in the 1980s when I saw my first birth as part of my training in nursing school. I was profoundly impressed with the birthing womans strength and power, despite the poor care she received, and was driven to find out how care for women could be different. I worked as a labor and delivery registered nurse for a few years; during that time met a nurse midwife and began dreaming of becoming a midwife. About ten years later (because Life Happened in the form of getting married, the opportunity to live in Asia for 7 years, a research project on Traditional Birth Attendants in Indonesia and having two of my three children) I was thrilled to attend Baylor College of Medicine Nurse-Midwifery Division. My first job as a midwife was in an out of hospital birth center in Texas where I worked for almost a year before returning to life in Asia and a small solo home birth practice. In 1993 I returned to the United States, started working for Olmsted Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota and had my third child (and third home birth). I worked in a 2 midwife practice at Olmsted for 5 years, attending many deliveries in the hospital. In 2003 I resigned from my position at Olmsted Medical Center as an opportunity to live and work in beautiful Winona, Minnesota presented itself. For 10 years I worked in a 2 midwife practice in Winona Clinic, attending many more births at Community Memorial Hospital. (My total of births attended is just over 700). My work at ...Read More