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Picture of Valerie SassonValerie Sasson, CPM, LM, Founding Member
Originally from New Jersey and a graduate of Brown University ('86), I relocated to Seattle in 1989 to attend the Seattle Midwifery School and have since made the Puget Sound my home. My husband, Gary May, and I have two daughters, Camille and Olivia, both born at home with midwives and our families in attendance.

The word "sovereignty" is the best descriptor I have found for what I wanted as a pregnant and birthing woman: freedom to be my own authority. I believe that as women, as families, we have a right to the quantity and quality of information that enables sovereignty for each of us. In any setting, this is what we deserve. This is the standard of care we are committed to providing for each and every one of the families in our care. More than a medical event, we facilitate the opportunity to experience birth as what it is: a life-changing event worthy of whole presence and participation – body, mind, heart and soul.

I was tremendously fortunate to have joined the Puget Sound Birth Center, in 1999, as the practice partner of PSBC founder, LeeAnne Shelley. Following LeeAnne's retirement I am very pleased to be in practice with my dear friend and colleague, Ali Tromblay, LM. We are committed to the Midwifery Model of Care – informed choice, risk management, evidence based care and continuity of relationship – that makes modern professional midwifery safe and satisfying.


Ali Tromblay, CPM, LM, Founding Member
I was raised by a very loving, close-knit family, who instilled in me a great respect for the importance of the family unit as a foundation for successful movement through life. It is from this place that I see the importance of my job.

The birth of a baby is an initiation and an enormous transition in a family whether it is your first baby or your sixth. If you come away from your birth experience feeling informed, respected and empowered, then I feel I have served you well. It is from this place that I hope you will then feel empowered in future decisions concerning the health and well-being of your family.

The midwifery model of care makes it easy to provide quality care to families, and I have such a good time doing it. I am privileged to meet interesting people, share stories and information, get to know different families and lifestyles, and share with them the beautiful moment of bringing their child into the world. The fun is also in getting to custom make my care to fit your needs as I learn more about what works for you.

Birth is always an adventure, each one is different, and I learn something new from each family and each experience... midwifery definitely never gets boring! Now that I have two children, both recently born at the birth center with midwives, I feel even more deeply the importance of what we offer families. In a word, time. This world moves so fast these days, I treasure the time, stillness and connection with people that my work as a midwife offers to me and to the families I serve.

I did years of doula work before and after graduating pre-med from the University of Washington. This time of providing doula care to new families opened my eyes and my heart to midwifery care and I knew instantly upon attending my first birth that I wanted to be a midwife.

I then went on for my midwifery education at Seattle Midwifery School. I have studied and worked with many different doctors and midwives over the years, and I feel so blessed by my partnership with Valerie, and by the opportunity we have here at the birth center. Puget Sound Birth Center is the perfect peaceful environment for our practice, and we are lucky to have great relationships with many area doctors to consult with as needed to provide safe and satisfying care to our clients.

Picture of Valerie doing a check up.

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"Thank you. Gosh, how inadequate those words are! Two syllables cannot possibly convey the depth of the gratitude and affection I feel.

Valerie, thank you for the wonderful care and support you gave me throughout this pregnancy, and for the wonderful postpartum support too. Thanks for your patient, quiet, loving support during Katie's birth. Thanks, especially, for the three words you spoke so soothingly when I felt overwhelmed in the moment before birth: ‘Let it be’.

You are a remarkable woman, in a remarkable profession."

 –  Liz

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