Meet the Team
Meet the Midwives of MI Birth! Our team is dedicated to providing a client-centric approach to your pregnancy, birth experience and postpartum. With 25 years of collective experience, our clients and their families benefit from the individualized and thorough care of a team of midwives.
Crystal Enyih LM, CPM
Owner
Tara O'Neill LM, CPM
Owner
Crystal (She/Her) is a Licensed Midwife in the state of Michigan and has been a Certified Professional Midwife since 2006. Originally from metro Detroit, Crystal completed an apprenticeship with a local Detroit midwife and an internship at a birth center in Texas before moving to Pennsylvania to join a homebirth practice and then spent six years in India before returning back to metro Detroit in 2020.
She has experience working in a wide variety of birth settings ranging from rural homebirth practices in Pennsylvania to a busy hospital based birth center practice in urban India. Witnessing birth in such varied settings created a passion for global midwifery and public health while strengthening her belief that all birthing people in all settings need improved access to respectful reproductive healthcare, care through informed decision making, quality childbirth education, and increased access to skilled midwifery care.
Outside of the clinic, Crystal loves to travel, knit, and spend time with family.
Tara (She/Her) is a certified professional midwife licensed in the state of Michigan. Starting out in Texas, she entered a midwifery training program through the Association of Texas Midwives and started attending births in 2014. After finishing the classes at ATM she completed the North American Registry of Midwives Exam, secured her Texas license, and earned the Midwifery Bridge Certificate. Tara moved from Texas in 2020 and became licensed in Michigan that year.
Tara has worked in several practices over the years, with CNMs (Certified Nurse Midwives) and CPMs (Certified Professional Midwives), and in both birth center and home settings. During this time, she used this experience to learn what kind of midwife she wanted to be. Tara believes that the role of a midwife is to provide informed, supportive, and attentive care during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. She recognizes that each person and each family is unique and works to ensure that the care provided meets the needs of each individual. She is committed to preserving client autonomy, and to ensuring that each family’s needs are met and that they are truly heard.
In her free time, she enjoys spending time exploring the wonderful state of Michigan, gardening, and spending time with loved ones.
Stephanie Summers
Office Manager
Stephanie (She/Her) is the non-medical czar of the office and handles all scheduling, billing, paperwork, and various miscellany such as making sure the midwives have snacks packed so they don't get hangry at births. Stephanie spent 8 years as a middle school teacher and has also worked as a birth assistant.
Seeing first-hand the transformative powers of educated and empowered healthcare, gave her a deep respect and appreciation for midwifery. While her interests in midwifery are definitely theoretical rather than practical, she is honored to help the midwives do what they do with her work behind the scenes.
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In her spare time, Stephanie is an avid reader, a loving aunt, and a long-suffering Lions fan, who is seeing a glimmer of hope on that front for the first time in her life!
STUDENT MIDWIVES & BIRTH ASSISTANTS
Every birth is attended by at least one of our Michigan licensed midwives and an experienced student or birth assistant. Birth assistants are trained by our team and are certified in neonatal resuscitation (NRP) and CPR, among other certificates. Our families have the opportunity to get to know birth assistants and midwifery students during regularly scheduled prenatal visits.
Anna Williams Student Midwife
Anna began her second bachelor’s degree at Mercy in Action College of Midwifery in 2022. Having lived in rural Michigan for most of her life, she hopes to expand the care options for those who live in rural areas when she graduates.
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Passionate about patient-centered care, she believes that open communication, education, and autonomy are the foundation for any successful patient/provider relationship.
In her free time, Anna bakes and is learning to sew, although most of her time is spent chasing after her toddler and studying. She loves spending time with her husband, her six siblings, and ever-growing number of nieces and nephews. Anna's daughter J is pictured above, as we consider her an important part of our team too!
Erica Businski
Student Midwife
Erica’s (They/Them) journey to birthwork started nearly 18 years ago with the birth of their first child. They have led groups for babywearing and taught elimination communication. Erica supported and normalized chest/breastfeeding as a La Leche League leader. They are a movement teacher specializing in core and pelvic floor health and feeling at home in your body. Erica has been a birth doula since 2021 and began attending home births as a midwife assistant in 2024.
Erica believes in the transformative power of pregnancy and birth to bring out the best in all of us, and is honored to be in spaces that treat birth as an empowering event for all birthing people.
In their free time, Erica enjoys … who am I kidding I don't have free time! During rare quiet moments, Erica enjoys knitting, family camping trips and being in and around water.
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Erica is currently enrolled at Southwest Wisconsin Technical College Midwifery Program.
Katelyn Dabelstein Student Midwife
Katelyn (She/Her) discovered her love for birth work during her pregnancy with her daughter in 2017-2018. From there, she started college in 2020 and became a Certified Lactation Counselor and Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator in 2021. Since then, she has done some doula work and is attending the Southwest Wisconsin Technical College Midwifery Program.
Katelyn is passionate about providing families with the care and information that they desire. Katelyn’s ultimate goal is to provide home birth midwifery care as an LM, CPM based in Livingston County, and possibly become an IBCLC as she has almost completed the requirements to apply for the examination.
In her free time, Katelyn loves spending time with her family, practicing yoga, and drinking coffee or a matcha tea latte.
Mercedes Reifsnider Birth Assistant
Mercedes (She/Her) is a student midwife who has completed her training and is planning to take her midwifery exam to become licensed in MI. She began her training in 2018, attending a MEAC program before deciding to finish her training through the PEP process.
She has already attended nearly 100 births during her student career with multiple practices. There are not many homebirth midwives in her county and she's looking forward to serving that area soon.
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In her free time, Mercedes stays busy with her 5 kids and husband. She loves to hike, trail run, and do Crossfit and can almost always be caught with a coffee and her big water bottle.