Jade Lotus Midwifery Service

Wonderful Midwife. Extremely knowledgeable, kind, honest, and warm-​hearted. If she is your Midwife, You may just fall in love with her; ha ha, at least I did! :)

Lis was the assist on our homebirth with Sue Baelen. She was kind, knowledgeable and supportive during our prenatal visit and during the birth. I completely trusted her. We were so glad to have her there and highly recommend her for anyone considering a homebirth.

Lis is a wonderful warm and supportive midwife. She helped us with the water-​birth of our two sons (2 years apart) and I really don’t know if I could have done it without her! Everytime I wanted to give up because no end was in sight (40 hour birth!) and the pain unbelievable, she reassured me: ‘This is it, Flora, this is your birth, you are doing it!” I will always be grateful to her for her knowledge and her support. I love her down-​to earth being and I am sad she is no longer visiting with us! Greatly recommended!

People have told me it’s easy to fall in love with your midwife. I would say, that for both my husband and me, that was true. Lis was so present during every single visit. She would listen to my lists of worries. She would guide me along the many fears that came up during pregnancy. She provided us enormous amounts of information so that we could make informed decisions about everything relating to pregnancy, childbirth and the first 6 weeks of our baby’s life. Without her help I don’t know how I would have made it through my very long labor. My baby was not rotated correctly for an easy delivery and Lis knew exactly how to get her to rotate. I never felt her give up on me even though I felt like giving up.
I could go on an on about Lis. She is so calm, so present, so wise. She was the perfect midwife for us.

I would definitely recommend Lis. She was my midwife with both my children.
Originally, I chose her because she was open to work with variety of people, was very understanding, helpful, and REAL. She seemed very invested in the well-​being of mothers and babies and very passionate about her work.
She has helped me a great deal emotionally after my first birth which ended up as a C-​section. The outcome of the birth was not a homebirth, but I as very pleased with Lis and I chose her as my midwife for my second child who was born at home.
My second pregnancy was a tough one and included more than 3 months of bedrest due to preterm labor, during which Lis once again was emotionally there for me looking for resources and solution to my medical problem… After all that, I had a full term baby and I am very glad that I didn’t give up on the idea to have a VBAC at home. I had a successful VBAC less that 2 months ago and I am sure that I would have had another C-​section if I was in a hospital.
Lis has been a great help emotionally to me. She also helped me with my diet and nutrition during my pregnancies and I believe that I and my children are healthier as a result.

I can only say positive things about Lis as a midwife. Although I felt confident that I would have a smooth birth experience based on how things went with my first child, I appreciated that she had plenty of experience as a nurse prior to becoming a midwife. I always felt that she had both my and my baby’s best interest at heart throughout the pregnancy, birth and post natal experience. I think for me some of the highlights of working Lis were that she has a very calm and reassuring demeanor, she was able to negotiate situations on my behalf (specifically getting my in-​laws to leave so that I could relax and let my baby come), I had an added bonus of lots of nutritional advice that allowed me to skip some medication that I had the first time around for acid reflux, and I loved loved loved having her care for my baby after the birth.

Lis was AMAZING!!! You really couldn’t ask for more in a midwife in my opinion. She delivered my son 3.5 years ago and our entire experience was incredible.
I realize that each person has to find a midwife that they connect with and feel comfortable with… but Lis was COMPLETELY that person for me. I would recommend her to anyone. Her presence was calming and confident while she guided me to my inner strength. She has a world of experience in the medical field that assured me she would be more than ready in any situation that we could have faced. She always offered great natural options first and never pressured us with our decisions. She worked with our financial complications and even while finding a new place, she let us meet together in her home!
I wish so badly she could have been the midwife for my second birth, but since we moved that was not an option for us. As I interviewed other midwives and searched for someone like Lis, I realize how special a gift it was that I experienced my first birth with such a beautiful guide. It is a rare gift.
Thank you lis for guiding me though such a spiritual experience… our family still sings your praises and I wish you happiness in all your life adventures.

Lis is an outstanding midwife. We hired Lis because of her expertise, kind demeanor, and methodology. While we were not able to have a home birth due to unexpected medical issues, Lis served as our doula at UCSF and provided in home post-​natal care for us. Lis was critical in helping us have the natural childbirth we desired in a hospital setting. She knew how to coach us through the process — providing both emotional support and birthing knowledge. We could not have done it without her. We also appreciated her understanding of nutrition as it pertained to pregnancy and breastfeeding. She was always available to answer our questions via email or phone. We highly recommend her services and look forward to working with her again if we decide to grow our family again.

I don’t even know where to start in my fondness for Lis Worcester. In the almost 10 months we worked together Lis has been consistently supportive, kind, lovingly and truly interested in my well being. On a professional level, she has met and exceeded every desire I had in terms of resourcefulness, specific knowledge and unbiased information. Lis places a lot of emphasis on nutrition and overall well being as part of her prenatal care. She was also very good in offering us information about what is available in the medical realm (tests, ultrassounds, etc) and letting us make our choices based on therisks, benefits and real necessity (or lack of) for each one of those procedures.
Lis also supported me a lot through the ambivalence, doubts and relationship issues that happened during the early pregnancy. Her gentle care and unobtrusive suggestions took me a long way and to a place of confidence and comfort.
As you can see, I highly recommend her.

I would tell people to STAY AWAY from this person.
My partner called Lis during our search for a midwife and was totally disturbed by what she had to say. We told her we are looking for a natural birth and do not want western medical intervention. Lis went on to tell her that we are ridiculous for not being open to western medicine and she asked us why we even needed a midwife when it sounds like we should just birth the baby OURSELVES. I mean SERIOUSLY. This is the response we get when we reach out for help in our birthing process. We only called her because her website said that she believed in the natural process of birth that women innately know how to birth children.
She even went on to bully my partner into going the western medically oriented route by throwing fear into our space that we be careful what we do because babies die. Yes! She actually insinuate that if we weren’t into going the western medicine route that our baby would die! I mean hello!!! My partner is 5 weeks pregnant. She doesn’t need a midwife to tell her that if she doesn’t subscribe to the western medicine fear based model that our baby will die! My partner went into hysterical crying after speaking with this so called practitioner who had no finesse and did not listen to my partner at all.
She claims to have a spiritual element to her on her website, but I would say that that did not come through at all. My partner tried to talk about Abraham-​Hicks type of manifestation work on how thoughts create reality and a healthy pregnancy and Lis pretty much invalidated her. So, if you are looking for a spiritually centered person, I wouldn’t go here.
Good luck, if I were you I wouldn’t try here. I don’t think it’s worth it to be invalidated by a practitioner, and least of all I wouldn’t pay money for that experience.

Lis was fantastic to work with. She was acting as a second on our home birth but we would have been happy with her as a primary midwife. She was caring and professional. She was clearly an expert in her field and very thorough in her explanations of what she was doing.

Lis has expert knowledge that goes above and beyond just prenatal care. Throughout my care with her I have felt supported, empowered and respected.
If you are considering a homebirth I highly recommend Lis as a midwife!

Lis is a lovely midwife. She was accommodating for all of our prenatal check ups and made the appointments feel like visits with a friend.
Where she really came through was before labor. Feeling nervous (despite this being baby number three, she helped getting labor started, got my wife to push through the experience and took her mind off of her fears. She loaned us a birth tub and included me in the process in a way that made me part of the experience instead of watching as a bystander.
She continues to be part of our life and family. I would recommend her to anyone considering a home birth.