Midwives Serving the Bronx

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​Barbara Bechtel CNM
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Dahlia Midwifery

​Jeanette Breen
​CNM

​Baldwin Midwifery Service
Carol Bues
​LM, CNM, WHNP,
DNP student

Midwifery Care NYC (MCNYC)

​Chloe Campbell
​LM, CLC

​Wildroot Midwifery
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Yuen Kwan Chan CNM, DNP, OB/GYN NP

TLC Midwifery Service 

​Nicole Chen, CNM, CLC ​
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​NFC Midwifery
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Nya Memaniye Cinque, CNM
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Dyekora Sumda Midwifery Services

Robina Khalid, LM/CM, PhD

Small Things Grow Midwifery

Shawna King, LM/CM

Amai Midwifery
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​Shar LaPorte
LM, CNM

​Midwifery Care NYC
(MCNYC)
Anne Margolis
​CNM, LM, MSN, BSN

​Home Sweet Homebirth Midwifery
Kateryn Nuñez
LM, CNM,
​WHNP-BC

​Heart Science Midwifery

​Sakina O'Uhuru
​CM, CNM, RN, MS
Gentle Spirit
Home Birth
Midwifery Service
Valeriana
​Pasqua-Masback
LM, CNM

​HomeBirth Midwifery Services​

Nuranisa Rae
LM, CNM

​Nur Midwifery
Sorayya Kassamali Rickicki
LM, IBCLC

Wildroot Midwifery
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Kimm SUN
Certified Nurse Midwife

​Heart Science Midwifery

​Dra. T'Karima Ticitl
​PhD, LM, CM

Cihuapahtli Midwifery
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​Trinisha Williams
LM, CM, MPH, LC

Midwife in the City
Tanya Wills
​MSN, LM, CNM, WHNP-BC, IBCLC

Small Things Grow Midwifery
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Barbara Bechtel, licensed midwife

Barbara Bechtel, CNM

Dahlia Midwifery

Barbara has been performing out-of-hospital births for over 16 years, and caring for prenatal, laboring and postnatal women for over three decades. In 2011, she moved from Indiana, where she owned and operated two freestanding birth centers, to Brooklyn to be with her family. After almost a year as Interim Director at Brooklyn Birthing Center, she is now helping women who choose out-of-hospital birth have this joyful experience in their homes.  She has been helping families create the experience they want in a home birth in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx.

Barbara is a Certified Nurse-Midwife, and has worked in the past as an RN and Nurse Manager in labor and delivery, a nursing instructor for RN students and nurse practitioners, a preceptor for midwifery students, as well as a prenatal instructor for parents-to-be. She has an extensive primary care background, as well as in women's health, peri menopausal, and family planning.

Barbara has a true belief in the power of birth. The process is designed beautifully, and normal births should be allowed to proceed in a normal fashion. Barbara believes it is her job to worry about the details, allowing the birthing mother to instead focus on her body and the power of the natural labor process.
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Jeanette Breen, licensed midwife

Jeanette Breen, CNM

Baldwin Midwifery Service

I am a homebirth midwife on Long Island offering holistic midwifery services including pregnancy and birth, well-woman gyn-ecology, menopausal counseling using natural hormonal replacement and women's primary healthcare. 

​It has been my honor and privilege to serve women and their families since 1984.
My education in midwifery was at Columbia University and  I currently have eight grandchildren.
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Carol Bues, licensed midwife

Carol Bues
​LM, CNM, WHNP, DNP student

Midwifery Care NYC (MCNYC)

Carol is a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM), Women's Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP) and RN. She has been a practicing midwife since 2001. Carol is currently working on her Doctorate of Nursing Practice at SUNY Stony Brook and will graduate in May 2019. She is an Adjunct Clinical Professor and Lecturer at Hunter Bellevue School of Nursing. Before co-founding Midwifery Care NYC (MCNYC), she worked as a midwife in many hospitals in NYC and in private practice. Carol is certified in neonatal resuscitation and in childbirth education. She is a member of many midwifery professional organizations, including the American College of Nurse Midwives, NY State Association of Licensed Midwives, and the NYC Midwives, and has served on the executive boards of these organizations.
Carol is the mother of two children caught by a home birth midwife in NYC. She formerly home schooled both of her children through middle school and was an active participant of the NYC homeschooling community. She volunteers at several maternal and child health organizations, including Forestdale, a family services organization committed to breaking the cycle of poverty and trauma that afflicts generations of families in Queens, and the Mothers Milk Bank New England.
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Chloe Campbell, licensed midwife

Chloe Campbell
LM, CLC

Wildroot Midwifery

Chloe graduated from SUNY Downstate with a Master of Science Degree in Midwifery with honors. In the 10 years prior to earning her midwifery license, Chloe worked as a doula, midwife’s assistant and CLC. She developed a profound appreciation of birth, informed by the dual influence of families navigating their birth options, and by a community of skilled and experienced homebirth midwives delivering evidence-based care to their clients. She saw hundreds of uninterrupted physiologic births at home before earning her midwifery license. This understanding of birth allowed her to grasp the many variations of normal that a walk through the birth labyrinth can take. Chloe is a student of herbal medicine and is in her 10th year of study. She has completed 3 levels of training with the wise and wonderful Karen Rose of Sacred Vibes Apothecary in Ditmas Park and has been on a continuous educational voyage with plant medicine ever since. Her expertise focuses on healing plants from Western Europe and North America. When not practicing midwifery you might find Chloe on her front stoop crooning to the ukulele, trampolining with her two wild children or with mermaids jumping in the cold pool at the spa in Coney Island. She lives in Kensington, Brooklyn with her husband and two sons who were born at home on the exact same day, four years apart. Chloe is in partnership with Sorayya Kassamali Rickicki at Wildroot Midwifery.
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Yuen Kwan Chan, licensed midwife

Yuen Kwan Chan 
CNM, DNP, OB/GYN NP

TLC Midwifery Service 

Yuen Kwan Chan is a New York State CNM, and OB/GYN NP since 2009.  She started her career as a RN at NorthShore University Level 3 NICU since 2007. She received her BSN, MSN degrees from Stony Brook University on 2009 while she was a nurse in NICU. During her time at North Shore LIJ, she discovered her true passion for women health and babies. Being fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin, she has devoted most of her midwifery career to empower women about natural birth through education and providing individualized care for women in the Asian community.

Since then, she had over a few thousands of successful deliveries during her career over the past decade. She even further her education to better serve the community by getting her Doctorate in Midwifery and women's health in 2014. With a multi-diverse experience in different birth settings range from Hospital, Birthing Center and Home birth, Yuen Kwan is confident and experiences in providing each woman the birth of their dream. She believes that every women deserve the best and individualized care and to remember this precious moment of their life.

She has affiliations and delivering privileges with NYU Langone hospital, Maimonides Medical Center and Brooklyn Birthing Center.  With the passion of education, she is also an adjunct faculty member at Adelphi University's College of Nursing. She is a certified lactation consultant (CLC). She is passionate about breastfeeding and helping mothers with infant care. 
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Nicole Chen, licensed midwife

Nicole Chen  
CNM, CLC

NFC Midwifery

Nicole Chen is a Certified Nurse Midwife. Born in Queens, raised in the Northeast section of the Bronx, and now resides in Mount Vernon, Westchester. 
 
Nicole earned her Bachelors Degree in Nursing At Lehman College.  Nicole is a graduate of the Midwifery Program at New York University, where she received her Master of Science in Nursing/Midwifery. 
 
Nicole Chen has been practicing Midwifery since 2014 at Maimonides Medical Center, in Brooklyn NY.  Where she learned the skills and art of Midwifery from many gifted Midwives. 
 
Nicole was called into the Home birth world after working as a Birthing Assistant along side Home Birth Midwives in Westchester, New York.  She was intrigued by the positive energy of the families, the power of the mothers too be, and the bond that was created between all.  
 
Nicole believes in the power of natural birth, which allowed her to open up her own private practice, N.F.C Midwifery Care (Nurturing, Faithful, and Caring Midwifery).  Nicole is committed in providing full scope midwifery care and compassion to the women of Westchester and beyond. 
 
NFC Midwifery believes in offering holistic full scope midwifery care, which incorporates evidence base practice while allowing the women autonomy in her care.   
 
Nicole Chen is also a Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC), where she plans on incorporating breastfeeding classes into her practice.  
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Memaniye Cinque, licensed midwife

Nya Memaniye Cinque, CNM

Dyekora Sumda Midwifery Services

I’ve been a midwife since 1998 when I graduated from SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn. I’ve worked in both hospital and birthing center settings and have been in the homebirth setting since 2001 when I took on my first “private practice” client. I was a labor and delivery nurse for 10 years prior to returning to school for midwifery.

My path to midwifery started in 1987 when I gave birth to my second child at home. I had my first in a hospital and the two experiences were like night and day. I decided in that moment, feeling the euphoria of that experience, that assisting women in childbirth at home with as many loving, supportive people around her as she wanted was THE THING to do in my life. I am so grateful and feel so blessed to have shared and participated in the many wonderful journeys of the women whose births I have attended. The ability to assist women to do what the Creator has intended them to do, to grow within themselves and bring forth new life is what midwifery is to me.
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I offer full scope midwifery care including home birth, and well woman services. Serving the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut area within 1 hour travel time of my office location.
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Robina Khalid, licensed midwife

Robina Khalid, LM, CM, PhD

Small Things Grow Midwifery

Small Things Grow Midwifery (Robina Khalid, LM and Tanya Wills, LM) offers individualized, evidence-based prenatal, birth, postpartum, and well-person care to the unique individuals and families of NYC. 

We integrate the best of current research and practices with ancient, holistic midwifery wisdom. Our goal is to communicate to you the things you need to know to be an active participant in your own health care, to allow you to be heard as the ultimate authority in your own physical and spiritual well being, and to safely facilitate your sense of power in the sacred experiences of pregnancy, birth, and parenthood. We pride ourselves in developing a respectful, trusting partnership with my clients and in holding a space during prenatal visits and births that is relaxed, laughter-filled, and high-touch in a rushed, high-tech world.

We believe respectful midwifery care to be a part of the solution to the United States' health care disparities, a problem rooted in the systemic racism and sexism that have existed in our country since its founding. We are passionate about working toward the health equity and reproductive self-determination of all individuals, and to making homebirth accessible to all who want it. Let's work together and change the world, one birth at a time!
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Shawna King, licensed midwife

Shawna King, CM, LM

Amai Midwifery

Since is graduating from the State University of New York at Downstate in 2002 I’ve had the privilege of caring for families from all boroughs, and in a variety of settings including hospitals, in-hospital birthing centers, free-standing birthing centers and most recently home births.

I’ve dedicated my practice to providing evidence-based care in a personalized and meaningful way, while striving to form a partnership that empowers people to make informed choices about their bodies and their health. I believe when a relationship of trust and respect is created through intimate collaboration the best outcomes can be achieved.

I consider birth to be a sacred life event and it is my great honor to be a part of the journey.
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Shar LaPorte, licensed midwife

Shar LaPorte, LM, CNM

Midwifery Care NYC

Shar LaPorte is a co-founder of Midwifery Care NYC (MCNYC). She is a New York state licensed Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) and Registered Nurse (RN). Shar holds an Associate of Science in Nursing degree from Philips Beth Israel School of Nursing and a Master in Nurse-Midwifery degree from the Midwifery Institute at Philadelphia University. She serves as an adjunct clinical professor at New York University. Shar currently holds the seat of secretary with NYC Midwives. Prior to launching MCNYC, Shar worked as a hospital staff midwife and as a homebirth midwife; she also worked as a labor and delivery nurse and birth assistant. Adding to Shar’s devotion to homebirth is her experience of blissfully giving birth to two of her own children at home. She is certified in neonatal resuscitation as well as basic life support and CPR. Shar’s passion for birth, compassion towards women and their families, knowledge of physiology, and dedication to the autonomy of homebirth make her a uniquely qualified and accomplished midwife.
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Anne Margolis, licensed midwife

Anne Margolis CNM, LM, MSN, BSN

Home Sweet Homebirth Midwifery

Anne Margolis is a Licensed Certified Nurse Midwife, OB/GYN Nurse Practitioner, Certified Yoga Teacher, and Clarity Breathwork Practitioner. She is a 3rd generation guide to mommas birthing babies in her family. Anne has helped thousands of families in her 20+ year midwifery practice and has personally ushered the births of over 1000 healthy babies into the world. She offers compassionate holistic women's health care and homebirth maternity services including comprehensive prenatal, postpartum and newborn care.  The practice reflects a more sensitive, personal, family-centered, humanistic, mind/body/heart and spirit approach to maternity care, complimented by the utmost confidence in a healthy woman's innate ability to give birth normally and naturally, and a healthy baby's innate ability to be born. Anne has also guided countless human beings to heal from emotional pain, inner stress and trauma, and reclaim their joyfulness, calm and overall sense of well-being.
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Kateryn Nuñez, licensed midwife

Kateryn Nuñez 
LM, CNM,WHNP-BC

Heart Science Midwifery

Kateryn Nuñez is a Certified Nurse Midwife, and a Woman's Health Nurse Practitioner. She has worked with Kimm Sun since 2012 and is now an official partner midwife with Heart Science Midwifery. ​
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Sakina O'Uhuru, licensed midwife

Sakina O'Uhuru
​CM, CNM, RN, MS

Gentle Spirit Home Birth Midwifery Service

Sakina O'Uhuru, CM, CNM MS has been practicing the art of midwifery for 21 years and has provided maternal child health care in underserved areas for 32 years.

In 2002, she founded her private practice, Gentle Spirit Home Birth Midwifery Services where she offers comprehensive women's health care services. Gentle Spirit Birth is a private practice independently owned and operated with office locations in New York New Jersey & North Carolina.  She has attended well over 1000 out of hospital births.

Ms. O'Uhuru is  an advocate for reproductive justice and is committed to providing safe and sacred spaces for women to unfold and find the deep power within to create the most comfortable, joy-filled, empowering, life altering labor and birth experience.
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Valeriana Pasqua-Masback, licensed midwife

Valeriana Pasqua-Masback
LM, CNM

HomeBirth Midwifery Services

I have been providing homebirth to clients since 1995. Additionally, I have a well women practice with a focus on health and wellness coaching. I see clients in my home office in Rockland County and in my office on Broadway and Houston. Willy is my office manager, she will respond to your inquiry usually within a few hours. Best to email. 
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Nuranisa Rae, licensed midwife

Nuranisa Rae, MSN, LM, CNM

Nur Midwifery 

The role a midwife holds in the community, empowering each family, despite our differences offers a unique yet incredibly powerful opportunity to plant seeds of change, provide respectful care and bring babies into this world gently and peacefully. This was my calling to midwifery. I first became a labor and delivery nurse and a doula, caring for high-risk women and families in New York City. I graduated from the midwifery program at New York University and began attending births and providing well-woman care at home. My role as the midwife is to allow for the physiological process of pregnancy and birth and to be aware of the mother and baby's health and well-being throughout the process and to also address any possible anxiety or fears that may arise before, during and after labor and birth.  Pregnancy and birth can be a time of vulnerability and an opportunity to have a relationship with women and families through the year of pregnancy, birth and postpartum, offering empowerment through respectful shared decision making about health and well-being of mothers and babies.
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Sorayya Kassamali Rickicki, licensed midwife

Sorayya Kassamali Rickicki
LM, IBCLC

Wildroot Midwifery

Sorayya is a licensed midwife and international board certified lactation consultant. Before becoming a midwife, she worked as a birth doula and IBCLC in both hospital and out-of-hospital settings. Sorayya earned her Master of Science (MSc) degree with honors in midwifery and was awarded the Lily Hsia Midwifery Student Scholarship Award by the faculty in her department for academic excellence, leadership and commitment to community service. Sorayya believes that adolescence, childbirth, and menopause are pivotal moments in a person’s life and that compassionate support during these transitional periods is a right that every person is entitled to. Her experiences over the many years she has served families in pregnancy, childbirth and lactation have taught her that we are indeed strong and resilient beings and with well-matched clinical support, these pivotal moments can be experienced with more clarity, mindfulness, confidence, and ultimately, joy. Sorayya is committed to providing care to each person in the spirit of non-judgement, utilizing evidence-based information and in a way that honors each individual’s journey. When Sorayya is not being a midwife, she is a busy mother of three children who are her ultimate teachers in life and who show her every day the importance of patience, love and gratitude. She loves to travel the world and visit wild places where her kids can roam freely, watch dolphin pods swim by as her son surfs in Rockaway beach and plant herbs in her community garden. Sorayya is fluent in Spanish and English and is in partnership with Chloe Campbell at Wildroot Midwifery
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Kimm SUN, licensed midwife

Kimm SUN
Certified Nurse Midwife

Heart Science Midwifery

Kimm Sun is a Chinese Malaysian New Yorker who studied midwifery at the University of Pennsylvania. For her best part of being a midwife is to serve a very diverse New York City population, and to form an intimate relationship with each client. She has recently partnered with Kateryn Nunez, CNM, in order to provide a two-midwife team at births. 

​FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT HEARTSCIENCEMIDWIFERY.COM.
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 Dra. T'Karima Ticitl, licensed midwife

Dra. T'Karima Ticitl
PhD, LM, CM

Cihuapahtli Midwifery

Dra. T'Karima Ticitl was born in California and grew up as a Xicana Indigena with her family background from Zacatecas and Jalisco, Mexico, with Mexica/Wixárika roots. She is the mother of three boys, all who were born at home, in the temazkalli (sweat lodge). Her life is dedicated to the ceremony of birth and peyotl. She is a ceremonial woman, active in the Native American Church, Teo Kali Quetzalcoatl and a Mexica dancer with her danza group, Kalpulli Huehuetlahtolli.

She received my bachelor’s degree in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley in 2005, and her Master’s in Childhood Education from New York University in 2006. She earned her Doctorate in Education from the University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College in 2011, and in that same year she enrolled and completed a six-month doula fellowship. She began online prerequisites for midwifery school in 2013, and in 2015 she began the Direct Entry Midwifery program at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, where she graduated in May 2019. She is certified with The American College of Nurse Midwives and licensed by the State of New York. Passionate about midwifery, she has enjoyed supporting and caring for people during pregnancy and childbirth throughout the United States, Mexico, Colombia, London, and New Zealand.

Dr. Ticitl is the Co-Founder/Co-Director of Traditional Doula and Midwifery Arts (TDMA). Dr. Ticitl is a health and fitness coach, she began work out programs with Team Beach Body and after completing the program, 80 day obsession with Autumn Calabrese, in 2018 she became a coach. Dr. Ticitl has authored six books: Freeing Nahua/Mexica/Aztec Children’s Literature from Stereotypes and Misconceptions, Blooming Flower, Shooting Star, Boys Can Have Long Hair, Too, Evolution of Traditional Doula and Midwifery Arts, Birth is a Ceremony, and My Body, My Birth. Lastly, Dr. Ticitl is the founder of Cihuapahtli Matriarch Council and she looks forward to her midwifery journey, she is super excited about her calling in life, a prayer answered, and would love to be your midwife.
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Trinisha Williams, licensed midwife

Trinisha Williams
​LM, CM, MPH, LC

Midwife in the City

Trinisha Williams has been a midwife for over a decade. After receiving a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Masters of Public Health with a concentration in Women's Health, she became a Certified Midwife. For the last 15 years She has taught Lamaze Childbirth classes and recently received a Fellow of  American Academy of Childbirth Educators. She has supported thousands of women and their families with births. Trinisha believes women and their families need to be supported with their birth care practices. She provides prenatal care, well women gynecology, infertility and stress management.
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Tanya Wills, licensed midwife

Tanya Wills, MSN, LM, CNM, WHNP-BC, IBCLC

Small Things Grow Midwifery

Tanya Wills works in partnership with Robina Khalid, LM of Small Things Grow Midwifery. We offer individualized, evidence-based prenatal, birth, postpartum, and well-person care to the unique individuals and families of NYC. 

We integrate the best of current research and practices with ancient, holistic midwifery wisdom. Our goal is to communicate to you the things you need to know to be an active participant in your own health care, to allow you to be heard as the ultimate authority in your own physical and spiritual well being, and to safely facilitate your sense of power in the sacred experiences of pregnancy, birth, and parenthood. We pride ourselves in developing a respectful, trusting partnership with my clients and in holding a space during prenatal visits and births that is relaxed, laughter-filled, and high-touch in a rushed, high-tech world.

We believe respectful midwifery care to be a part of the solution to the United States' health care disparities, a problem rooted in the systemic racism and sexism that have existed in our country since its founding. We are passionate about working toward the health equity and reproductive self-determination of all individuals, and to making homebirth accessible to all who want it. Let's work together and change the world, one birth at a time!
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