Meet Your Midwife
Anne graduated from The National Midwifery Institute and apprenticed with Licensed midwife Jessica Johnson from November of 2021-January of 2025. She received her Certified Professional Midwife credentials in February of 2025, and was licensed in the State of California as a Licensed Midwife in March of 2025. MIDWIFE, CPM & LM
Anne Corbin
I have always wanted to be a midwife, inspired by the incredible women in my life—my mother and the midwives who cared for me during my pregnancies. For a long time, it felt like a distant dream, something I could never truly achieve. But that changed one day when I stood in line for four hours to get a COVID test, just so I could attend a client’s birth at the hospital. By the time it was my turn, the hospital had changed its policy, and I was denied access to my client—someone who desperately needed support.
In that moment, something clicked. A fire was ignited within me. That very night, I applied to midwifery school and was accepted the following week. From that point on, I have been determined to bring midwifery care to Lodi and the surrounding areas. With the unwavering support of my husband, friends, and family, I continue this journey—serving women, babies, and families with a heart full of passion and a deep calling that even I can’t fully explain.
I am forever blessed and honored to care for the women and babies I have had the privilege to serve, as well as the many families I will care for in the future. Thank you for trusting me with your pregnancy, labor, delivery, and most importantly, your heart.
Our Team
Kara Edwards
Assistant
I am certified Holistic Nutrition consultant and herbalist with a long lasting passion for nurturing mothers, babies and families through the childbearing continuum. Beginning my journey as a doula in 2019, and now as Anne’s assistant, it has been and still is a great honor to nurture, nourish and support a family’s wellbeing as they move through this great transition.
For Dear Moon Midwifery’s practice, I offer bio-individual prenatal and postpartum nutrition counseling, postpartum planning support, and placenta encapsulation in addition to the honor of assisting Anne at the birth of your precious baby.
Doula, Assistant
Kaitlyn Marty
I’m a compassionate and dedicated doula who believes birth is a deeply personal and empowering experience. As a fellow homebirth mama and mother of three, I bring both professional support and lived experience to every birth I attend. My style is calm, intuitive, and grounded, offering steady emotional support, gentle guidance, and deep respect for each family’s unique values and choices. My goal is to create a safe space where you feel heard, confident, and fully supported during birth.
Anne’s Story
My love for birth began when I was pregnant with my first baby boy. My husband and I married at 19, and just six months later, we were expecting! I’ll never forget the day my mom told me I needed to prepare for birth. Together, we signed up for The Bradley Method, a 12-week childbirth education program. By the end of the course, we were both determined to have our baby naturally—without pain medication!
Like many first-time parents, we had no idea what to expect. My labor was fast for a first-time mom, taking me on a whirlwind journey. After just five hours in the hospital, my baby arrived. When the midwife handed him to me, I’ll never forget the feeling of his warm, slippery body against mine or how adorable his chubby little face was. The love I felt for him was overwhelming—something I could never have fully prepared for. In the days that followed, I basked in oxytocin, feeling beyond proud of the work I had just done. I couldn’t believe it. I was in awe.
I went on to have four more baby boys—one in the hospital, one at a birth center, and three at home.
My journey into birth work is both long and simple. After my second baby, born just 14 months later at a birth center, I felt an undeniable pull to be part of the birth world in any way I could. With a small baby and a toddler in tow, we traveled to Seattle so I could train as a birth doula at the Seattle Midwifery School. There, I met other incredible birth workers, including Penny Simkin! I dreamed of becoming a doula—the best doula I could be.
For years, I worked on and off as a doula in Idaho, and later, when my husband, Sean, and I moved to California for his apprenticeship, I continued to support friends through their births. But as much as I loved birth work, being on call with young children at home became increasingly difficult. Instead of attending births, I shifted my focus to teaching. In 2015, I became a certified Bradley instructor and began teaching small childbirth classes from my home in Lodi, CA. For the next six years, I shared my knowledge with families and had the privilege of attending some of their births.