34 Years Of Obstetric Nursing Experience
Ann Marie Gilligan, RN, LNC, RPYT, Evidence Based Birth® Instructor
A little tidbit about me…
After graduation, my first position was in a labor and delivery unit at a small suburban hospital, working full-time night shift as the only RN. I had an experienced nurse sleep in house if I had any questions. Yikes! Talk about getting your feet wet! I jumped right into a huge puddle.
From there, I went on to working in a high risk, labor and delivery unit, inner city. During this time period, I obtained my Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner certificate and held that position along with my labor and delivery job, for 8 years.
An interest in the legal side led me to become a Legal Nurse Consultant-specializing in OB cases. My Pre-natal Yoga instructor title came next, realizing how important yoga and mindfulness is to maternal health.
I was part of the original medical team of a local free standing birth center where I became water birth certified and was blessed to assist in a low risk, midwifery led, water immersion based birth center.
I have traveled to Bolivia and Tanzania, where I taught high risk obstetrics and maternal positioning for optimal fetal positioning. Most recently, I have obtained my certification for Spinning Babies Aware Practitioner and Evidence Based Birth Instructor.
A total nursing career of 30 years in obstetric nursing is my most satisfying accomplishment, outside of my marriage and the birth of my 3 children.
Each vocation has had an influence as to why I have created Gilligan’s Guide and therefore this website.
My goal is to reach as many pregnant women in our world as is possible. Gilligan’s Guide with it’s safety and effectiveness will create a path to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidities while promoting a more satisfying and improved psychosocial outcome for our mothers and infants.
I am dedicating this website to my father, Manuel P. Guerrero.
Sadly, he passed away in 2014 but his spirit lives on in me whenever I am giving of myself to others, as that is how he led his shortened life. Ironically, I developed Gilligan’s Guide at the hospital where he died and where I returned after a 10 year absence on what would have been his 81st birthday. I knew in my heart that my return was to create something very special. My father insisted on attending the hospital birth of his 6 children when it was essentially forbidden in the 1960’s and early 1970’s. Losing him was “like losing the rain.”