Midwife San Diego, CA
Alternative Women’s Health through Midwifery

Celesta Rannisi L.M., L.C.S., C.T.
CA Licensed Midwife, Lactation Consultant Specialist, Hydro-Colon Therapist
celesta@sandiegohomebirth.com

Personal Biography

Celesta Rannisi is a CA license homebirth midwife in San Diego, licensed by the State of California Dept. of Consumer Affairs, Medical Board. She is a UC San Diego graduate in Lactation Education and Lactation Specialist. She is an alumni of Casa De Nacimiento Midwifery School and Registered with the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM) Formally she held a seat on the board of the California Association of Midwives for three years as Region 10 representative (San Diego and imperial Counties). Celesta is a standing member of her communities Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Rock Church in San Diego. Celesta has been providing well woman/baby care since 1987. Celesta started a primary care midwifery practice in 1990. In the spirit of a true pioneer she became one of California’s first licensed midwives. In 1997 she and 39 of her midwife collegues challenged the state of California to create a licensing process to allow them to "grandmother-in" and sat for the Medical Board of California’s first midwifery licensing exam since 1949 when it became illegal to be a midwife.

For the last 20+ years Celesta has worked as a primary care midwife, lactation specialist and alternative woman’s health practitioner in San Diego. An activist for the preservation of individual rights of women and their families choices in heath care and family rights issues. She continues to work towards providing access to midwives by women in California and globally.

Celesta lives and serves the women of greater San Diego California. She has also traveled abroad as a midwife for those who are unable to find one in there area or country. She has done missions work for birthing families in Baja Calif. Mexico, has traveled to Asia and Europe, South America and helped establish a maternity/health clinic in the village of Mwanyangiri, of Uganda, Africa.

Celesta has had the pleasure of meeting and speaking with women from different parts of the world exploring the nature of women and their births and learning different tricks and remedies used in the childbearing years and throughout their lives. From puberty to menopause Celesta provides a wealth of knowledge. well respected educator to student midwives, birthing couples, and the general public Celesta has spoken here and abroad for conferences and workshops, including Midwifery today, La Letche League International (Singapore), University of California San Diego, California Association of Midwives conference and the Gentle Birth congress. She was the former creator and hostess on an Internet talk radio show via Voice America called: "Celesta Rannisi's Timely Topics In Childbirth."

Celesta lives with her husband Eric in the foothills of Cuyamaca National Forest in East San Diego County, CA. She has two homebirthed and homeschooled daughters now grown and with families of their own. Celesta has an active profession of faith and commitment to Jesus the Christ and the Holy Scriptures of the Bible. Celesta is an avid outdoors woman loving anything related to exploring God’s Creation, the earth. Hobbies are organic gardening and farming, Homebirth and homeschooling. Hiking and camping. Hot Springs of Canyon de Guadalupe, Wildlife preservation, Ceramic arts, Cultural arts and music, turtles and tea pots. She has a heart for travel and has had the opportunity to help the nonprofit organization "with woman" create a medical/maternity clinic in a village of Mwanyangiri Uganda. One of her many life goals: " find and get naked in as many hot springs we can!".