Rebecca Turecky

Rebecca Turecky, C.N.M., N.D., is a Costa Rican / U.S. dual citizen.

Rebecca resides in the rural mountain town of Turrialba, Costa Rica and has lovingly assisted more than 1000 natural births, as one of the only independent home birth midwives still practicing in the country.

In the year 2000, she co-founded the Mamasol Association (www.mamasol.com), a non-profit organization which promotes the «Humanization of childbirth» in Costa Rica. This grassroots movement educates and advocates for a more holistic and feminist model of health care and denounces the pervasive obstetric violence against women in the maternity hospitals.

Throughout the decades, Mamasol has organized large public awareness events, collaborated with nursing education at the University of Costa Rica, offered consultation with the C.C.S.S. national maternal health care policy makers, supported legislation for Human Rights in Childbirth (Ley #10081), and trained over 250 doulas in their Escuela de Doulas.