by Sarah Craighead Dedmon

Soon, Washington County’s newest citizens will have a new place to enter the world. Certified Nurse Midwife Bjarni Thomas is now seeing patients at her new practice, Women First Machias, located in the heart of Machias at 89 Main Street. Later this year, she’ll begin offering birth center services there, too. 

The road to opening her own birth center has taken Thomas from her hometown of Farmington in western Maine to West Virginia to Machias, where she arrived four years ago and where she feels perfectly at home.