Meet the Childbirth Education Instructors
Tawney Collins
Tawney has been teaching our childbirth classes at Westside
Women's Care for 2 years now. In addition to her classes she
works as a labor and delivery nurse at Exempla Lutheran Medical
Center. Tawney has worked at Lutheran for 11 years with the last
8 years spent on labor and delivery. Tawney likes to keep her
classes light and discuss reality. One of her class participants
wrote "Tawney makes it interesting and clear" Tawney brings her
great personality and sense of humor to the classes. Kim Maddock
Kim Maddock has coordinated and taught the childbirth education classes at Westside Women’s Care since the program was started in 1998. Kim became certified through Lamaze International in 1995 as a childbirth educator. Kim is a registered nurse and certified nurse practitioner and has worked at WWC since 2001. She worked as a labor and delivery nurse for 17 years prior to working at Westside.
View BioErica
Erica Gillesby is the most recent addition to Westside Women’s Care family. While working as a tech at Lutheran Medical Center Labor and Delivery, she graduated from Regis University with her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2004. She currently works as a Registered Nurse in Labor and Delivery and teaches the Childbirth Prep Class at both WWC offices. Erica describes herself as “energetic and passionate” and she believes in empowering women to “take charge” of their labor by being educated and knowledgeable
Julie Stretz
Julie joined WWC in the summer of 2008 as a Childbirth
Education instructor. She has worked with the providers at WWC
since 1997 when she came to work at Lutheran as a postpartum
nurse. Her background includes over 8 years of experience as a
Labor and Delivery nurse at Lutheran as well. Though she no
longer works on L&D, she continues to teach fetal monitoring to
the L&D nurses at the hospital. Currently, Julie works in the
surgery center at Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine
caring for infertility patients, and she attends graduate school
at UC Denver, studying to become a Women’s Health nurse
practitioner.
Julie is happily married and has two children, both delivered at
Lutheran by WWC doctors and midwifes! When she’s not working or
studying, she enjoys involving herself in her children’s
activities. Her hobbies become whatever the family is involved
in, including raising their new puppy, caring for their variety
of pets (lizards and snake) and basement remodeling. She loves
being a karate and soccer mom!
Julie is passionate about education and loves teaching for WWC.
She strives to make her class both informative and entertaining.
Her goal is to help her patients make informed decisions so they
can actively participate in their care and have the best
delivery experience possible. She loves surrounding herself with
expectant couples and their excitement and energy for what lies
ahead……the wonderful joys of parenthood!
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