{"id":200666,"date":"2026-03-12T00:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/200666\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T00:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:43:08","slug":"death-of-mother-infant-causes-texas-midwife-to-have-license-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/200666\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of mother, infant causes Texas midwife to have license suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hospital_getty_1553612622321_6941700_ver1.0_640_360.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">(Photo by Carsten Koall\/ Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; A Texas midwife has had her license suspended after a mother and an infant died in her care, a state regulation agency announced Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">According to the release, the midwife was quoted in a discussion about severe complications in her work &#8220;not concerning&#8221; her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Midwife&#8217;s license suspended  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Salli M. Gonzalez, of Georgetown, has had her midwife license suspended by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. She&#8217;s prohibited from practicing unless a court restores her license, the department said Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The suspension, which the TDLR called an emergency action, resulted from an investigation into two clients who died \u2014 an infant in February 2023, and a mother in April 2023 \u2014 who were in the care of Gonzalez. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">TDLR also said they were informed of a social media conversation Gonzalez had with another midwife, in which they discussed &#8220;several complications that would typically require a transfer recommendation under Texas Midwifery Law and Rules.&#8221; In response, Gonzalez reportedly stated, &#8220;Those things are not concerning to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The department said Gonzalez behavior could place clients at risk, which led them to take emergency action.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">&#8220;TDLR\u2019s responsibility is to protect the health and safety of Texans,&#8221; said TDLR Executive Director Courtney Arbour. &#8220;When a license holder\u2019s conduct poses a risk to the public, TDLR will take action to protect Texans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article (Photo by Carsten Koall\/ Getty Images) AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; A Texas midwife has had her license suspended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[223,27,29,28,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-200666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-texas-headlines","11":"tag-texas-news","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}