DeAnne Moore, APRN CNM.

New Traditions Midwifery is owned by DeAnne Moore. She is an advanced practice registered nurse and certified nurse midwife. She helps women improve their health during pregnancy and beyond by integrating evidence-based alternative medicine with low intervention allopathic care.

The focus at New Traditions Midwifery is on giving every woman the education necessary for her make informed choices about her health journey. Pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding are normal, healthy processes. A woman can safely give birth at home when she and her baby are healthy, and there is trained support staff present. Birth is a transformative journey for the entire family, and New Traditions Midwifery welcomes family support into the birthing space. Spiritual, cultural, ethnic and religious traditions are important, and we are committed to helping women honor those practices.

Background and Education

DeAnne Moore started her journey in health care over 25 years ago. For much of her career, she worked with patients with cardiac problems as a registered nurse. She became intent on starting a midwifery practice after using an OB group for her pregnancy and delivery. The OB group provided care that was impersonal, generic, and more concerned with hospital profitability than providing personalized care. There were no Certified Nurse Midwives in League City that were not affiliated with a major hospital system.

In 2018, she enrolled at Frontier Nursing University. Frontier Nursing University is one of the oldest and most established universities for the training and advancement of Nurse-Midwives in the United States. She completed her didactic studies (bookwork, lectures, and tests) in March of 2020. The world turned upside down shortly thereafter, leaving her without a clinical placement anywhere in Texas due to COVID-19 pandemic hospital lockdowns. With determination to continue, she then secured a hospital site in rural South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation. She worked day and night with midwives providing care to Indigenous women and families. The experience led to transformational emotional, spiritual, and cultural growth. She was able to learn about Indigenous birth traditions.

Learning about indigenous birth helped her reconnect with lost culture. Her father is a Choctaw Native. She and her family are all registered members of the Choctaw Tribe of Oklahoma. She was born and raised in the Houston area and learned very little about Native American traditions. In South Dakota, she learned how indigenous traditions could easily be woven into modern Western hospital care. The staff midwives taught her to use moxibustion to turn a breech baby into the head-down position to give mothers a better chance at a natural birth, and they taught her how to find peer-reviewed research that supports the use of herbal medicine and alternative therapies. She took her next assignment in New Mexico on the Navajo Reservation. She worked at Northern Navajo Medical Center where she expanded her knowledge in Indigenous midwifery in 2021.

After graduation, she accepted a Fellowship position in community birth at the Texas-Mexico Border at Holy Family Birth Center in Weslaco, TX. She became proficient at independently managing healthy, vaginal births at the oldest birth center in the United States. Holy Family Birth Center is a Catholic charity that provides care to women from their first period until menopause and beyond. In addition to routine pregnancy and gynecological care, the center also provides primary care for women. This experience opened her eyes to the challenges of poverty and the devastating effects of untreated diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and obesity.

New Traditions Midwifery

DeAnne brings the knowledge and skills from her various travels back to her home in League City where she opened New Traditions Midwifery in 2023. She has been a resident of League City for over 25 years. She has a daughter who graduated from Clear Creek High School in 2019 and boys who attend Clear Creek Intermediate and Ferguson Elementary. She is married to Wayne Moore who is the Program Director over Galveston County for Child Protective Services, and they live in South Shore Harbor.

Although her travels were transformative, League City has always been home. After all, she was first inspired to become a midwife because there are so few in League City and the surrounding areas. New Traditions Midwifery strives to provide cost-effective care with up-front pricing and no “surprise bills.” In addition to traditional midwifery services during pregnancy and birth, New Traditions offers low-cost access to prescription weight loss medications.