Jackie Griggs, Certified Nurse Midwife, and owner of Baby Area Birth Center since 2006 is past president of Association Texas Midwifes and current President of Texas Coalitionof Birth Centers, she is Board Certified Lactation Consultant.  She attended UTMB to receive her masters degree ad a Advanced Practice Nurse in 2001  She is the recipient of the Hazel Corbin Award in 2001 and has supported women with over 1,000 births in hospitals, birth centers and at homes.  She is a mother of 5 adult boys  – 3  were born at home…….