About Island Mamas Midwifery
Dani Dougherty
CPM, LM, BS, PCES
Dani Dougherty (formerly Dani Kennedy) is a Certified Professional Midwife and a Licensed Midwife in Hawaii. She has attended more than 500 births, and worked as a Certified Doula before she began pursuing midwifery. Dani started out working at a high volume birth center in Idaho for 4 years before moving back to Hawaii to begin her home birth practice in 2010. She is a member of the Midwives Alliance of Hawaii Registry of Midwives, and served on the MAH executive board for 8 consecutive years.
Along with the continuing education courses required for a CPM, Dani makes it a point to continually research and fine tune her knowledge of the human body from a holistic health care perspective. She also holds a Bachelors degree in Health & Exercise Science from the University of Hawaii at Hilo, and is a Certified Pregnancy and Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist; specializing in pelvic floor and core function.
Dani comes from a legacy of midwifery.... her mother, sister and brother-in-law are all midwives, as well as other extended family members. She birthed her own three children with midwives, and loves empowering women, and in turn their families.
Meet our Sister Practice
Aloha Birthing Care
Nina Millar
CPM, LM, RN
Nina Millar has been a homebirth midwife on the Big Island for over 27 years. She is a Certified Professional Midwife - Licensed in Hawaii. Her midwifery practice, Aloha Birthing Care, has an outstanding reputation with our local hospital, and Nina is a well loved community midwife. She also holds her RN degree, and works for North Hawaii Hospice. Nina lives in Paulo, and has been happily married for more than 30 years. She and her husband have two grown children, one of whom was a natural breech birth! She also had the honor of “catching” all of her grandchildren, and is a very devoted and lively grandma. We are happy to offer collaborative care between the two practices, and are committed to standing in for each other as back-up midwives, in order to offer the highest standard of care possible.
Rowen Zwicky
Student midwife
Rowan Zwicky is a Junior student at MCU. Through midwifery, she combines her passions for health care, personal wellness, functional core and pelvic floor therapy, medical science, and community based childcare. She believes that the Midwifery Model of Care has the potential to change our world in a positive way by setting a foundation for holistic and affordable perinatal care. She is also very passionate about surfing, and protecting our oceans and reefs for future generations to enjoy.
