About Us | Generations Home birth

Valerie Hall

LM • CPM

I am a Certified Professional Midwife, licensed in Idaho. I live in Ammon, Idaho, with Stephen, my husband of 40 years. I began my midwifery training in 2008 after having been a Bradley Method ® childbirth educator along with Stephen and having served as a doula. I graduated from the Midwives College of Utah in August 2011 and did my clinical preceptorship with Agape’ Birth Center in Rigby, Idaho.

After graduation, I worked for Agape for 2 years, then started my own homebirth practice. I have attended over 400 births. I have grown ever stronger in my conviction that birth is a sacred event and that strong families are the only hope of the future.

Besides midwifery, I love reading everything, gardening, nature, sewing and other fiber arts, and church service. Steve and I are grandparents to eight beautiful children. Steve is a wonderful partner and “midhusband” without whom I could not possibly do this work.

Angela Geurts

NCTMB • LM • CPM

I am a Certified Professional Midwife, licensed in Idaho. I live in Pocatello and mostly serve the areas within an hour radius. With my husband, Jason, I have 6 children. The last 2 were born at home. The story of our 5th child’s birth can be accessed at www.choosinghomebirth.blogspot.com, and it was this birth that started me on the midwifery path.

I became a doula in 2010, then started midwifery school at the National College of Midwifery in 2011. I did my clinical preceptorship with Agape’ Birth Center in Rigby and with Valerie Hall. I graduated in 2016 and began working as a midwife with Generations Home Birth in January of 2017.

Birth is an awe-inspiring, divinely appointed event that creates mothers, fathers, and families on a physical, emotional, and spiritual level, adding a depth and element to ‘family’ that nothing else can. Birth without intervention solidifies this transforming and bonding link that can simply not be imitated in any other way. My goal in midwifery care is to guard and hold a beautiful and sacred space for the parents to experience birth together, while ensuring the mother’s and baby’s physical safety through informed choice and consent.

I also provide placenta encapsulation as an additional service. Click here to learn more.

Elyse Norton

Assistant

I grew up in NYC, and have lived in Idaho for just under three years. I recently got married in the spring of 2023 to my wonderful husband. We don’t have any children yet, but we’re both excited to have our own home birth experiences in the future. I have been around home birth since I was just 7 years old. My mother was a doula and would often teach me about birth. Many years later I attended a class valerie taught for those wanting to be assistants. A little over a year later I officially began assisting for valerie. I’m extremely passionate about this work and I am very grateful to be by Valerie’s side as she does this amazing work. It is so wonderful to be a witness to the incredible power and beauty that is birth.

Robyn Allgood

Independent Assistant

For the majority of my life I have lived in southeast Idaho. I graduated with a BA in Speech Communication and a minor in Spanish from the University of Utah and have since been mother to six children, five born at home. I love hiking, mountain biking, spending time with my family, and adventuring with my husband and best friend, Jeff. I have been a childbirth educator and doula since 2004. For eight years I led an ICAN chapter (International Cesarean Awareness Network) offering support and information to moms following cesarean birth and in preparation for vaginal birth after cesarean. In 2014 I completed Valerie Hall’s midwife assistant course and have attended home births as an assistant since that time. I am certified in NRP, CPR and First Aid. I am currently enrolled at Idaho State University working on my prerequisites for the nursing program. I love to read, write and reflect and helped co-author The Gift of Giving Life, a book centered on the spirituality of birth. I believe that birth is a sacred, transformative event unique to each woman. I consider it a privilege to witness the power of birth.