About Our Services and Midwives: 

Country Midwife, LLC offers licensed midwifery services to families of divergent backgrounds.   Although our name implies a rural setting, we primarily operate in Green Bay and its surrounding townships. Our “rural image” has more to do with the concept of an old-time style of care when country doctors and traditional midwives made house calls; caregivers were known by their communities and worked directly for the patients they served, not for insurance companies, corporate clinics or health maintenance organizations.  

Consultations and prenatal appointments are offered in our Downtown Green Bay office.  The initial consultation is free.  Insurance billing and a sliding fee scale for self-paying clients are available.  Please call to schedule your initial consultation as early as possible in the pregnancy or prior to conception. If you cannot schedule a weekday meeting we offer Saturday appointments once a month.

We provide care primarily to healthy, low-risk women who plan to give birth in their own homes; however we believe that midwifery should be available to every woman who desires it, including those with high risk pregnancies and planning hospital births.  

Families with complex circumstances may benefit from receiving dual care by a licensed midwife and obstetrician.  In cases like this we will design a modified care plan that fits your needs.  

Our aim is to educate you about pregnancy and birth and promote natural birth as one way to prevent complications, even in high risk situations.  We also assist with breast feeding and follow up care in your home so you may be discharged from the hospital earlier and not make extra trips out during postpartum or surgical recovery.  

Our midwives are sensitive to cultural and familial values; we have Spanish-speaking staff members.  Our midwives frequently work with other licensed midwives for back-up or when additional opinions are needed.  When we do, your private information will be protected. We also have access to pastoral council when difficulties occur.  

Midwifery Services Include: 

Nutrition Counseling
Prenatal Laboratory Testing in accordance with ACOG standards
Monthly Prenatal Check-ups through 28 Weeks
Bi-Weekly Check-ups from 28 to 36 Weeks
Weekly Check-ups from 36 Weeks-Birth
Labor, Birth and Immediate Postnatal Care In-Home
Postnatal Check-ups at:

• one day at home
• three to five days at home
• two weeks (In Office)
• four-six weeks postpartum (In Office)
• Follow-up phone calls at six months and one year after birth

Newborn Metabolic Screening between 24-36 hours after birth
Vitamin K and Eye Prophylaxis for Baby
Filing birth certificate and help with voluntary paternity forms

Stacy Vandenput, LM, CPM 
Green Bay, WI
Phone:   (920) 562-9058
Email:  svandenput@countrymidwife.com

Stacy is the mother of three home born children and “Gramma” of two.  She grew up in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin.  Her parents, Don and Nancy Vandenput, raised her with awareness of vitamin supplements and herbs for the maintaining good health and treating “dis-ease”. Stacy's grandparents, Robert and Marvel Elbe, enjoy lively health in their late 80's, making a five generation family for whom Stacy is ever-thankful. 

1990-2000             Certified Bradley Method ® Instructor 
1990-2000             Labor and Birth Doula
1992-1999            Apprentice to Alice Skenandore
1994-Present         Private Midwifery Practice
1993                      Birth Center Internship, El Paso Texas
1994-1997             Program Director, March of Dimes
2002-2008            Board, Wise Women Gathering Place
2000-Present         Public Health Home Birth Workgroup


Julie Mercier, LM, CPM, RN 
Manitowoc, WI

Julie has been part of the Country Midwife team since 1996.  She has four children, two of whom were born at home.  Julie grew up in Michigan.  She began working in maternal child health as a postpartum, home health nurse in the U.P. Julie relocated to Two Rivers, Wisconsin in 1995. Julie had an integral role in developing the vision of Country Midwife, and helping Stacy become certified and licensed.  She is currently  taking a sabbatical from her own midwifery practice but assists Stacy with client care and training midwives through our apprenticeship program. 

1995-2000                   Informed Home Birth Instructor
1995-2000                   Labor and Birth Doula
1996                            Apprentice to Alice Skenandore
1996-2000                   Apprentice to Stacy Vandenput
2001-2008                   Private Midwifery Practice
2006                            Missionary to Manila Philippines
2008-Present               Labor and Delivery Nurse