Wendy Stroud was a midwife. She was the first midwife Dr. Nash hired, and had never shown up late for work. On January 23, 1983, Wendy assisted Trudy Monk in the delivery of her daughter through Ethan Rickover. Although the baby was healthy, she had been conceived in an affair that Rickover had to conceal, so he made Trudy believe the child had died shortly after birth. He presumably bribed Wendy to say the same, and she set the baby girl up for adoption, claiming to have found her by a playground. Over the next few years Wendy became accustomed by unknown means to Christianity.