Full-Scope Midwifery

Childbirth the Way Nature Intended is a full-scope midwifery practice providing licensed home birth, holistic well-woman care, doula services and childbirth education. The practice is run by Debbie Boucher, APN, CNM and has an office in Lake Barrington, Illinois. The home birth coverage area includes northeast Illinois and southeast Wisconsin. 

Debbie Boucher, Midwife

Debbie Boucher, APN, CNM is a certified nurse-midwife licensed in Illinois and Wisconsin. She started providing labor support in 1993 as a doula and a childbirth educator (Bradley Method).

After several years, she realized that there were no licensed midwives in Lake County, and very few home birth options. She decided to go back to school to become a CNM. After completing an undergraduate nursing degree in 2005 at Loyola University Chicago, she became a licensed RN that same year and started attending home births, working under the supervision of two MD practices and two CNMs.

​She completed a master’s degree in nursing in 2008 at University of Illinois at Chicago which enabled her to become a certified nurse midwife (CNM) and receive a license to practice. At that point she started her midwifery private practice, in July 2008.

 Karen Cusick, Nurse, Doula​ (independent contractor)

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Karen Cusick, RN was born and raised in England. After college she was a children's nanny. She then completed nurse training specializing in neonatal intensive care, and worked in a very busy regional hospital in London for 24 years.

​In April 2004 she moved to the USA with her husband and two children. She is a certified doula. She loves children and infants and is also very involved in showing and breeding Cavalier King Charles spaniels.

Jane Dorado, Nurse

Jane Dorado, RN holds an Associate Degree in Physical Therapy as well as her nursing degree.

She has four children, all born at home, and two of her five grandchildren were home births also. She was a breastfeeding mother for a total of fourteen years. After her first baby, she became a childbirth educator and taught for 24 years and has attended hundreds of births in the assistant role.

​Drawing on her Physical Therapy background, she has always been interested in facilitating the body’s own healing power, rather than depending on substances or technology which are extrinsic. She believes that with support we can do the most amazing things. Women are wonderfully and powerfully made.

Rachel Martinez, Nurse

Rachel Martínez MSN, RN has been a registered nurse since 2003. She has 14 years in OB working in a hospital on the postpartum unit for 12 years. Being in the well-baby nursery was her favorite place to be. She thinks all births are a miracle and never tires of seeing a life coming into this world. Then 2 years were spent working in the Special Care Unit. She taught OB clinical to RN students for 1 year at a college in Ohio where she is from. She loved passing on her passion to future nurses. Now she is an adjunct instructor at Carthage College. She has 7 children, birthing 5 of them. She has two grandchildren. Currently she resides in Illinois with her husband and five of her children.