Our midwives

"Midwife" means "with woman" and our midwives are just that, working with women to achieve wonderful, empowering births.


Our midwives work in very small, tightly-integrated teams to provide your care, a concept we call Team Midwifery.  You'll get to know us just as you would a small circle of friends.  There are many advantages of Team Midwifery over single-midwife care, but the most important is that through it, we can provide you with exceptionally warm and personal care while bringing many resources you would not have with a single midwife.

Meet our family


Liz Stika, CPM LDEM
Liz did a large portion of her clinical training at BetterBirth before starting her own practice.  We're grateful to have her share her talents with us!

Danielle Demeter, CNM
Danielle is a certified nurse-midwife with a passion for out-of-hospital birth.  She has worked in-hospital also, but is happy now to be delivering exclusively in our birth centers.  She also works with Dr. Stephanie Singer at Park City Gynecology, and provides full-scope gynecologic care for clients wiling to make the trip to beautiful Park City.

Cathy Larson, CPM LDEM
Cathy trained with BetterBirth and then joined the practice and worked with us from 2007-2009.   After starting her own practice, she also taught for the Midwives College of Utah.  We;re thrilled to have her back with us once again. 

Trinette Thompson, CPM LDEM
Trinette received her midwifery training and graduated from Midwives College of Utah. She remains active in special projects for the college. Trinette is an extraordinarily compassionate and attentive midwife, with a specialty in herbal and homeopathic modalities. All of her children were homeborn.

"I was thrilled with the care I received throughout my pregnancy, birth and postpartum period. The appointments were fast yet thorough and when I got sick or had questions the midwife on call was always very attentive and helpful. The midwives were great listeners and supportive and helped me through an emotionally difficult pregnancy.  I loved that the midwives were as hands on or hands off as the situation required in my labor because they knew me so well by the end of my pregnancy."

- McCulloch February 2014



Confused by all those letters after our midwives' names?  Click here for a quick explanation.


Suzanne Smith, CPM LDEM
Suzanne holds Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Midwifery from the Midwives College of Utah, a Bachelor's degree in Human Biology from Stanford University, and was the first licensed direct-entry midwife in Utah.  She founded BetterBirth in 1994.  Suzanne habla español.

Fara Bitter, CD CPM LDEM

Fara has been a Doula since 2000 and a Certified HypnoBirthing® Practitioner (CHP) since 2001. She is also a Certified Hypnobabies Doula (CD). She started her Midwifery Education in 1998 with the Midwives College of Utah and started her training with Heather in 2006. She became a Certified Professional Midwife and Licensed Direct-Entry Midwife early in 2015. She loves to provide personalized midwifery care to women and to empower them to have their best birth possible.  Fara has four children, all of whom were born at home. She enjoys spending time with her family, digital scrapbooking, making crafts with her daughters and photography.