Meet our team of Certified Nurse Midwives
Our Midwives are Different
Midtown Nurse Midwives is a home-grown, woman-owned, small business. Our purpose is to fill the gap in care in our community. We created the region’s only breastfeeding medicine specialty clinic and provide women’s healthcare in an alternative setting. We opened a freestanding birth center to provide an alternative to hospital and home birth.
Bethany C. Sasaki, NP, CNM, IBCLC
Founder & Director
Bethany is the founder of Midtown Nurse Midwives, she functions as the Administrative Director of the both the birth center and the MiLC Clinic and fills in as a staff CNM and NP. Bethany has been a Registered Nurse since 2000 with experience in pediatrics, emergency/trauma, women’s health and labor and delivery. In 2010 she opened a small lactation business which grew quickly. Bethany became a Nurse Practitioner when she identified the need to add primary healthcare elements to her practice. In 2019 she opened a freestanding birth center in order to provide even more comprehensive care. She serves as the Vice President of the Capital Chapter of the California Nurse Midwives Association, as a member of the CNMA Health Policy Committee, on the California advisory team for the Institute for Medicaid Innovation’s Midwifery Learning Collaborative, and as the president of the American Association of Birth Centers California Chapter.
Bethany’s style is low-intervention, straight forward and thorough. Outside of work she enjoys spoiling her giant dog, photographing her kids’ soccer games and volunteering for Newfoundland Rescue.
Jenny Markovic, CNM
Jenny is a full time staff CNM at Midtown Nurse Midwives. She is originally from Minnesota and after living around the US and abroad, she is excited to call Sacramento home. As a nurse, Jenny is experienced in labor and delivery, postpartum and newborn care, as well as medical and post-surgical care. As a Nurse-Midwife, she has worked in free-standing birth centers as well as a hospital based OBGYN/midwife collaborative practice in Sacramento. Her professional interests include empowering women, natural birth, and working with adolescent populations. Jenny’s personal interests include traveling, gardening, reading and spending time with her husband and family. She serves as the President of the Capital Chapter of the California Nurse Midwives Association.
Jenny’s style is low intervention and woman-centered. She likes to work with families to give them the experience they are looking for.
Vicky Miller, MSN, CNM
Vicky is full time at mnm. She is a seasoned midwife who is still in love with birth. She is passionate about empowering families through supporting their best possible birth. She has supported birthing families and caught babies in the hospital, birth center and home. Before becoming a Nurse Midwife she cared for the tiniest NICU babies and taught nursing skills as an outreach educator. She holds a Masters degree in High Risk Perinatal Nursing from Virginia Commonwealth University and graduated as a nurse midwife from Frontier Nursing University.
Vicky swims with a US Masters Swim team in both the pool and open water. She enjoys hiking, knitting and baking bread in her free time.
Elizabeth Morales, CNM, MSN
Elizabeth is the birth center Clinical Director and a full time staff midwife. She has been a nurse midwife since 2014. She has a background in homebirth, low-risk labor and delivery and high risk labor and delivery. Before Elizabeth was a nurse midwife she worked in Social Services, specializing in domestic violence and youth services. She lives in Sacramento with her husband, 3 children and her dogs. Elizabeth is passionate about out-of-hospital birth and empowering families.
When she is not working Elizabeth enjoys reading and spending time outdoors.
Lori Link, MSN, CNM
Lori is a part time staff midwife. She obtained her Masters of Nursing and Certified Nurse-Midwifery at UTMB Galveston Texas. Lori is associated with the American College of Nurse Midwifery, Spinning Babies, and Breastfeeding Support groups. In nursing school, Lori found her home in the Labor and Delivery unit and in out of hospital births with Certified Nurse-Midwives. She gained experience as an L&D nurse and then attended nurse-midwifery school. After 19 years of managing her own private midwifery practice, attending low risk births in the home or birthing center environment in Southwest Missouri, Lori started a hospital Nurse-Midwifery Service for low risk families. She provided low intervention birthing, prenatal, postpartum, well woman and breastfeeding services, home visit support services, and a hospitalist midwifery service. Lori enjoys providing woman/family centered care, honoring the normal natural strengths and processes of birth.
Lori enjoys playing classical violin and bluegrass fiddle, cooking and consuming organic and gourmet food, studying/using herbs and natural remedies and furnishing her home with simple and functional antiques and handmade quilts. She also loves travel and exploring other cultures.
Meet our team of Registered Nurses and Birth Assistants
In-House Doulas
In the event that you need more labor support than you partner and support team can provide, or your team needs a little break, we have a pool of doulas to call on at no additional cost to you. There is no guarantee that a doula will be available at the moment when we need them. If you want guaranteed labor support we recommend hiring a private doula - you will be provided with a list of trusted doulas to choose from.