About Us
Diane Dreier, LM
I am the owner and administrator of NETX Midwifery and a Texas Licensed Midwife. I received my education in the ATM Midwifery Program and completed my training in 2007.
I have five children, two of which were born at home with a midwife. The main reason I became a midwife was to help women and give them the same kind of personal care that I received from my midwife. Women should be listened to and supported in having healthy pregnancies and healthy babies. Midwifery care, trust and respect surrounding the birth process make a positive difference for mothers and their babies -- physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
I believe that birth, when properly prepared for, is a natural, normal process that needs little outside interference. Midwives can provide a safe, low-cost solution to part of the health care crisis in our country. My goal is to make sure that I give my clients good care and the information that they need to make wise, informed decisions about their pregnancy and birth. I cannot guarantee a perfect birth and I don't know anyone who can, but there are many things that can be done prenatally to help prevent problems and to address them when they arise. I want to work closely with my clients to help them have the best birth possible.
Megan Loewen LM, CPM
Megan has been serving families in the birth world since 2015 and brings a deep passion for safe, compassionate, and personalized care. Her journey into midwifery was inspired by her great-grandmother, a midwife and healer in the early 1900s, and a lifelong draw to the sacred process of birth.
With a background in healthcare as a CNA, phlebotomist, doula, and lactation consultant, Megan brings a well-rounded, trauma-informed perspective to her midwifery care. She trained through the Association of Texas Midwives program and completed extensive clinical apprenticeships, attending hundreds of prenatal visits, births, and postpartum appointments. She became a Certified Professional Midwife in 2024 and is licensed by the state of Texas.
Megan believes in honoring the birth experience for both mother and baby, and supporting families with evidence-based care, intuition, and respect. Outside of midwifery but also very much intertwined, she is a mother of six, a proud nana, and a wife of 12 years.
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Summer Richards, Student
Hi! My name is Summer Richards, and I am a doula, student midwife, private tutor, wife, and homeschooling mother of 7. My journey into midwifery began with my own births - I have had a home birth midwife for all of my pregnancies (including a miscarriage), and all but one of my babies have been born at home. After my fourth, I was sad to think that my birth experiences would be winding down, but I didn’t want the “responsibility” of being a midwife, so I pursued a doula certification, which I began in 2019 and completed in 2020 (despite my miscarriage and the Covid pandemic).
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After working as a doula for a couple of years, I realized that most parents don’t hire doulas until the very end of the pregnancy (I even had an experience where I was hired on a Thursday and the mother gave birth the following Monday!), and there were so many things that I saw could be even avoided entirely with better nutritional counseling and body work earlier in the pregnancy. Talking to my doula clients (many who gave birth in the hospital) opened up for me a whole world where mother and baby were treated separately (which, in my personal experience, was strange and unnatural - why would a mother leave her newborn baby behind as she went to a follow-up OB appointment 6 weeks after delivery?). Especially with the lack of nutritional counseling (I had several clients who said that the extent of their nutritional counseling throughout the entire pregnancy was a piece of paper given at their initial visit) and the problems like pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes, and high blood pressure, I realized that I could better serve the mothers who came to me in the role of midwife, where I could see them more often and earlier in their pregnancies, with enough time to actually make a difference for them at the end of their pregnancies. It turns out that the “responsibility” of midwifery could make a real difference for mothers in my community.
So, in 2021, about 6 months after my 5th baby was born at home, I began my apprenticeship with Diane and Kristin. After about a year Kristin backed off on how many people she was seeing as her life transitioned her to a different picture of midwifery, so I have since been with Diane, traveling from Longview to Mt Pleasant every week and working on making it to births at the birth center and in clients’ homes near and around Mt Pleasant. I even did a week-long stint during my last pregnancy at a high-volume birth center in Washington state, working with two other midwives and several students. I am looking forward to licensing by the end of 2025, after an apprenticeship where I have had two babies of my own and learned so much, and I look forward to serving moms in the Longview and surrounding areas.
