About Us
We believe that emerging into parenthood, you should be surrounded by intentional, heartfelt, evidence-based compassionate care in the comforts of your home.
Nancy Pol, MSN, APRN, CNM
Founder and Owner
Nancy is a compassionate Certified Nurse-Midwife with a proven track record providing quality, family-centered care in homes, birth centers, and the hospital setting.
Nancy attended Rutgers University for undergrad where she also received an athletic scholarship to play lacrosse. She completed her graduate school midwifery education through the Frontier Nursing University in Hyden, KY graduating with Honors.
Since 2002, Nancy has worked in the healthcare space. Initially starting her nursing journey as a Cardio-Pulmonary Registered Nurse, she has also worked in Perinatal, Neonatal Intensive Care, and IV Team for various hospitals in Pennsylvania and Southern California. In 2011, Nancy started attending births in the home and birth center settings, where she received most of her graduate level midwifery experience. While her love has always been in the out of hospital space, in 2018, she also helped to start an in-hospital birthing center, only the second of its kind in the state of California.
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It was 2018, while growing a baby of her own, that Emergence Midwifery + Wellness was born. With a strong desire to decentralize care and bring quality, individualized, evidence-based midwifery into the homes of those she serves. In addition to perinatal care, Nancy provides well woman care, preconception, family planning, contraception, and miscarriage and loss support all in the comfort of your home. Nancy and her husband John have been married for 19 years. They are the parents of five children, four of them being born with midwives at birth centers and at home. When Nancy is not catching babies, she enjoys camping, hiking, and going to the beach with her family. She is actively involved in her church serving in the Healthcare, Children’s, and Welcome Team Ministries.
What sets you apart?
Nancy is one of the only Certified Nurse Midwives that exclusively attends home births in the East Valley. She is well versed in homeopathy, herbs, essential oils, and in addition has prescriptive authority. She is a trauma informed provider. At Emergence, our promise has always been to take a small number of clients into care each month to ensure quality time together at visits in the comforts of your home. I have a passion for education and advocacy. I enjoy not only educating families throughout their care, I also love to serve as a consultative provider for other licensed and certified community midwives in the area.
One of the only things lacking for me personally and professionally was a true work life balance and a sustainable practice. Since starting as a solo Nurse Midwife, I have always wanted to expand my team with like-minded midwives that personally and professionally align. In January 2022 as an answer to prayers, that vision became a reality and our intimate group practice was formed.
Additionally in January of 2022, Nancy started an in-home mobile IV therapy division as an extension of her existing midwifery practice. With the organic growth and demand for treatment, Emerge IV was officially expanded to serve the valley and individuals outside of Emergence Midwifery + Wellness.
In September 2023, Emerge Ultrasound was born in collaboration with Janna Krouse, RDMS, RVT and Dr. Anavish Patil created for Emergence families and non Emergence families because everyone deserves care like this.
Ephesians 2:10
Caitlyn Laney, CPM, LM
Caitlyn Laney, CPM LM has been a licensed midwife in Arizona since 2014. She completed the PEP Process, direct-entry midwifery through NARM, North American Registry of Midwives. Caitlyn has been actively attending home births in the community in both small private practice and in large group practice settings with experience in waterbirth, VBAC birth, and Gestational Diabetes management. Caitlyn is well trained with breech birth, neonatal resuscitation, postpartum hemorrhage management and other childbirth related emergencies. Caitlyn has been a NARM preceptor since 2017 and is a strong supporter of the direct-entry process for Certified Professional Midwives. Caitlyn has lived in the Queen Creek/San Tan Valley community since 2008 with her husband and 4 children, two of whom were born at home with midwives and two who were welcomed via adoption. She enjoys spending her down time surrounded by extended family and good food, preferably sourced via her husband's avid outdoorsmen lifestyle, and planning her next trip to the mountains. Caitlyn currently holds these credentials and maintains ongoing skills and education through various professional continuing education networks.
“I am so excited to join Nancy at Emergence Midwifery + Wellness and serve our home birth families. Welcome! Let's get started!"
Jessica Olano, MSN, APRN, CNM
Jessica Olano, MSN, APRN, CNM joined Emergence Midwifery after being an Emergence mama herself. She had first-hand experience being under the care of Nancy, Caitlyn, and Kayla and felt deeply loved and holistically cared for. The way they walked alongside her in her own motherhood journey was so well aligned with who she is as a midwife she knew this was the practice model she wanted to be a part of. Emergence is unique in that each midwife has a deep desire to care for every woman’s physical, mentally, and spiritual well-being but they also each prioritize being a present wife and mother. This intimate team approach allows for deep lasting relationships to be built with each family they serve.
Jessica is very passionate about preventative healthcare and improving health holistically through nutrition, exercise, stress management, sleep, avoiding toxins, and establishing a support system. She loves to incorporate herbs, essential oils, and alternative therapies into her care.
Jessica is trained to provide comprehensive women’s healthcare in areas of preconception, family planning, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, GYN problems such as heavy menses, PCOS, endometriosis, and women’s health ranging from menarche through menopause. She has completed additional training to advance her midwifery skills in areas including Integrative Gynecology, Spinning Babies, Nutrition courses through Women’s Health Nutrition Academy, Ultrasound for Midwives, and surgical first assist in cesarean delivery. Jessica is passionate about the benefits of movement and exercise during pregnancy, postpartum, and throughout the lifespan therefore, she is currently pursing Fit for Birth training to become a Pre & Postnatal corrective exercise specialist, Diastasis and Core Consultant, and Coach for Fertility.
Outside of midwifery Jessica enjoys time with her daughter, helping her husband run their fitness studio Kamikaze Fitness, traveling, hiking, running with her dog, reading, and listening to podcasts.
