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 APRN-FPA, CNM and has offices in Wauconda and Antioch, Illinois. The home birth coverage area includes Lake and McHenry counties in Illinois and Walworth and Kenosha counties inWisconsin. 

Debbie Boucher - Midwife

Debbie Boucher, APRN-FPA, 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 - Birth Assistant, Placenta Encapsulator

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Karen Cusick 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.

Aime Gramer - Birth Assistant, Lactation Counselor

Aime Gramer RN, BSN is married to Ron Gramer and they currently have twelve children. Five of their children were born at home, all with Debbie in attendance. Aime has been a labor-delivery nurse since 1993. She also has experience in childbirth education and has been a lactation counselor for several years. Her other certifications include Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Neonatal Resuscitation (NRP). She enjoys educating parents, supporting families, and being an advocate for their decisions.

Jane Dorado - Birth Assistant

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.