About the Team

Sapphire Garcia, Midwife

Sapphire Garcia is the founder of Lux Midwifery.

Since 2013, Sapphire has worked in a wide range of roles across birth work, maternal health policy, reproductive justice, and community advocacy at the local, state, and national levels. Her work has centered on holding systems accountable for change while advancing conversations about equity, access, and the conditions that shape pregnancy and birth outcomes in our communities.

Over time, Sapphire’s work brought her into deeper relationship with pregnancy, birth, postpartum recovery, and the structural realities that influence family wellbeing. She became a doula in 2017, beginning her work on her self-funded pilot, a popular community doula program called Sacred Days Doula Service. In addition to her doula work, Sapphire has spent years supporting families through pregnancy, labor, birth, and the postpartum period, pursuing additional education in lactation, birth, and reproductive health along the way. In 2020, she founded Kansas Birth Justice Society, a respected nonprofit organization focused on birth equity, direct community support, doula and midwife workforce development, and systems change. Through that work, she developed not only a broad understanding of maternal health systems, but also a finely honed sense of what families need from care that is both skillful and deeply personal.

Prior to entering birth work, Sapphire studied at Wichita State University for six years, pursuing a double major in biology (biochemistry field major) and anthropology. As part of her anthropology coursework, she completed an independent study in Hawaii in 2017, studying the impact of the anti-colonization movement on the accessibility of traditional birth practices.

She brings a highly technical understanding of the biochemical and physiologic underpinnings of pregnancy, birth, lactation, and postpartum recovery, while also remaining deeply attuned to the emotional, relational, and social needs of pregnant people. Her approach is rooted in the belief that truly excellent care must account for the whole person, not just the clinical picture.

Her path into midwifery was a natural evolution of years spent in birth work, close study, and hands-on care. Since 2020, Sapphire has trained through apprenticeship-based midwifery education while continuing direct work with hundreds of families. Her clinical strengths were shaped through sustained exposure to birth in all conditions and circumstances, in hospitals, homes, and birth centers across the state. Her understanding of birth was further enhanced through hundreds of encounters and mentorship under experienced midwives in community settings. She brings to her clients a rare combination of scientific grounding, steady presence, sharp pattern recognition, and attentive, relationship-based care.

Families often value the way Sapphire listens closely, explains things clearly, notices subtle changes, and remains calm and grounded when it matters most. Her approach is both relational and rigorous. She believes excellent care should never come at the expense of dignity, and that families deserve to feel informed, respected, and truly seen throughout the childbearing year.