OB2me Providers:

Carson Ragan CNM

Carson was born in Georgia, spent most of her childhood growing up in Birmingham, Alabama. She started her family at a very young age, and after her second child was born emergently three months premature, she knew she wanted to be a L&D or nursery nurse, so she returned to Georgia to attend Columbus State University for her undergraduate nursing degree. While in nursing school she gave birth to her third child under the care of a certified nurse midwife (CNM). Immediately, she knew that was exactly she wanted to become: a certified nurse midwife.

She graduated as a Registered Nurse in 1999 and immediately began working in her favorite area of nursing, Labor & Delivery. Over the years as an L&D nurse, she felt honored to provide care to thousands of families during one of the most intimate and memorable events in their lives. Before starting graduate school to become a CNM, she also pursued an internship and worked a few years as a Neonatal ICU nurse. It was important to her to learn more about what happened to the preemie and sick babies when they left the delivery room and how could she best educate and support her future patients as a CNM. After she gained years of bedside experience as a L&D/NICU nurse, charge nurse, CPR instructor and Nurse educator/Clinician, she finally went back to graduate school to pursue her dream. She graduated from Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing in 2010 and began working as a Certified Nurse Midwife in our community.

Often as a provider, Carson would have patients scheduled back to back, sometimes double-booked, leaving very little time with each patient to assess, treat, educate, and bond. Patients would also become frustrated with long waiting room times while struggling to balance work, family, and frequent doctor’s office visits during their pregnancy.

So about six years ago, as a busy working mom of five children, and while working as a CNM in a large OB/GYN practice, Carson recognized a need for change and a desire for women to have the OPTION of convenient, quality healthcare delivered to them in their home or office.

Carson was born into a family of entrepreneurs and forward thinkers. The time and personal experience of both being an expectant mother and working as a provider in OB/GYN services created the dream of CHANGE. Thus, this unique concierge model of care was conceived, and over many years of research and planning is being delivered to our community.

In Carson’s time away from caring for her patients, she enjoys spending time with her amazing husband and five (almost grown) children, volunteering with her daughter’s volleyball teams, traveling, and scuba diving.

Julia is originally from Boston, MA and was always drawn to women’s health and caring for women from a young age. After completing her undergraduate degree in Women’s Studies from Tufts University, she then became a birth doula in 2016. Through this experience, as well as attending her first births as a doula, she realized that midwifery was eventually the path she was meant to take. Along the way she also spent years working as a nanny for two different families and working in a daycare as an infant caregiver. 

Julia then moved to Atlanta to attend Emory University for nursing, and fell in love with being a labor + delivery nurse while working alongside midwives and supporting in-hospital water birth at Atlanta Medical Center. While continuing to work as a nurse, Julia then completed her nurse-midwifery training also from Emory, and was able to get a diversity of clinical experience in both high-risk hospital birth as well as low risk out-of-hospital birth at the Atlanta Birth Center. 

She is driven by her aspiration to provide compassionate care for families and birthing parents, as well as the emotional and spiritual support she can give during these transformative times of labor and birth. She believes birth can be empowering, healing, and nourishing and hopes to work with women and families in embracing their strength during the labor and birth process.

Working now at Ob2Me is truly a blessing because it combines the elements of traditional midwifery, unmedicated birth, and support for patient autonomy while also being within the hospital setting. 

Outside of caring for wonderful birthing families, Julia gets to enjoy time with her sweet husband and two cats, learning Spanish, river rafting, and rock climbing.