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Judy Ribner- Bush, licensed midwife
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Judy Ribner- Bush CNM, MS, LMHOLISTIC MIDWIFERY NEW YORK
The day Judy was born as a midwife, is the day she came earthside-at 7 pounds old. Judy is a product of a Lamaze, peaceful birth. She became a midwife to help women birth in a way that displays their strength. Judy’s practice is founded on her deep trust in the inherent wisdom in the female body. She views birth as an intuitive, empowering process. Judy tries to help people achieve health from within. She utilizes a holistic approach to help avoid the use of unnecessary pharmaceuticals. The practice is a sanctuary for women seeking authentically holistic care. After graduating high school as valedictorian, Judy was awarded the Robert Byrd Academic Scholarship, NYS Scholarship of Academic Excellence, and National Merit Scholarship Commendation. Judy earned her MS in Midwifery at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Judy has been awarded the Rory Meyers Academic Scholarship, NYU Social Justice Scholarship, and the Susan Kun Leddy Stipend. Judy completed her doctorate, a DNP, at NYU, graduating as Valedictorian. Judy lives with her husband and 4 children in Far Rockaway, NY. She has 3 homeborn children, two of whom were born into her own waiting, loving arms. |
Ruchi Cohen, licensed midwife
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Ruchi Cohen, MSN, CNMHOLISTIC MIDWIFERY NEW YORK
Ruchi (Rachel) Cohen is an experienced midwife with a passion for Women's Health. Ruchi was born in Vienna, Austria and spent her young adult years in Europe, the US and Israel. Inspired by her own children's births, Ruchi became a birth doula and then received her BSN in Nursing from Lehman College. She then earned a Masters in Midwifery from Frontier Nursing University while doing clinical training at Maimonides Medical Center. Ruchi has worked in varied settings including NYU Langone, Mount Sinai South Nassau, Raveco Medical and now Holistic Midwifery NY. Ruchi is incredibly passionate about homebirth, supporting women to have the physiologic births they desire in a private and comfortable environment. She brings a sense of calm to every birth she attends, reaffirming the normalcy of this life changing event. Ruchi currently lives on Long Island with her husband and five children. She is a strong advocate for special needs children and their families and has a unique interest in vaginal birth post cesarean (VBAC). When she is not out catching babies, Ruchi is an avid reader, aspiring yogi and loves spending time with her family. |
Alicia Gagnon, licensed midwife
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Alicia Gagnon, MSN, CNMHOLISTIC MIDWIFERY NEW YORK
Alicia’s passion for the dedicated care of women began in high school when she became a certified doula. She went on to become a birth assistant for a home birth practice shortly thereafter. Her days in nursing school were spent assisting families at a local birth center and supporting doula clients. She graduated from the University of Central Florida with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and began working on a high-risk antepartum unit at a Baby Friendly hospital in Orlando, FL. After relocating to NYC, Alicia spent time working at a high-risk outpatient OBGYN clinic before realizing that her heart truly belonged where it began: Homebirth. She graduated from SUNY Downstate’s Nurse-Midwifery program with a Master of Science in Midwifery and a Master of Science in Nursing. Alicia has found great joy in being a part of the Holistic Midwifery NY team for the past 3 years. She is very grateful for the ability to provide deeply personalized and compassionate care. She believes that being a healthcare provider for women and families means that their choices are heard and supported. In her spare time, Alicia enjoys cooking, knitting, and moving her body. She lives in Williamsburg with her husband and cat, Tica. |
Chloe Campbell, licensed midwife
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Chloe Campbell LM, CLCIntegrative Midwifery NYCChloe grew up in the rolling hills of rural County Down, N’ern Ireland, with her feet in the creeks, legs in the brambles and head in the clouds. She relocated to New York City in 2007, pregnant and knee-deep in an unfamiliar healthcare system. After immersing herself in literature in preparation for the birth of her first baby in the spring of 2008, she found herself in a place she never wanted to leave. By the winter of 2009, this inextinguishable passion led her to attend a DONA-certified birth doula training. The way in which a doula can nourish people as they transform into parents deeply resonated with her…and then the proverbial birth ball started rolling! During her ten years of practice as a doula and five years of practice as a midwife’s assistant for BK Midwifery, Chloe developed a profound appreciation of birth. This appreciation/respect was informed by the dual influence of witnessing empowered families navigating their birth options and a community of skilled homebirth midwives delivering individualized care to their clients. Being a doula before becoming a midwife was a defining characteristic of Chloe’s midwifery education. It provided the opportunity to witness birth through the lens of new parents before carrying the burden of clinical responsibility. As a midwife’s assistant, Chloe saw hundreds of uninterrupted physiologic homebirths 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 - and also what it looks like when a detour off a safe pathway occurs. It was the closest to an apprenticeship model of midwifery education as possible in New York State. Clinical training was the finishing touch to Chloe’s midwifery education. She graduated from SUNY Downstate with a Master of Science Degree in Midwifery with honors in 2019. In the fall of the same year, she was awarded a fellowship at the Brooklyn Birthing Center, where she honed her skills as a provider of midwifery care in an out-of-hospital setting. She launched her first homebirth practice, Wildroot Midwifery, in collaboration with Sorayya Kassamali Rickicki in February 2020, and moved on to practice independently as Integrative Midwifery NYC in October 2023.
Chloe is endlessly curious about the post-birth adjustment to parenthood. The midwifery care she provides in the postpartum period is informed by extensive lactation training and experience, as well as a vested interest in the delicate balancing act of mental health in the perinatal period. Chloe is a qualified Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC) and has provided hundreds of hours of lactation support to clients in their homes. Chloe has also completed Seleni Institute's Maternal Mental Health Intensive training. 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 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. |
Yuen Kwan Chan, licensed midwife
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Yuen Kwan Chan
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Nicole Chen, licensed midwife
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Nicole Chen
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Jenna Hutchens, licensed midwife
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Jenna Hutchens, LM, CNM, FNP-CCosmos Midwifery Jenna has been passionate about reproductive health for as long as she can remember. She has been involved in several grassroots collectives that focused on reproductive rights, self-care and education. After the birth of her daughter at home she had a private postpartum and labor doula practice for 13 years, and eventually decided to pursue nurse midwifery. After earning her nursing degree in 2007, she honed her clinical skills during 5 years as an ER nurse at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City. During this period, she became certified as a SAFE examiner, providing care and guiding sexual assault victims through the emotionally challenging evidence collection process.
Before embarking on her midwifery education, Jenna worked for over a year as an assistant to a homebirth midwife, where she gained practical experience in a model of care that was close to her heart. She began her studies at Frontier Nursing University in 2013 where she completed her masters degree and attained dual certification as a family nurse practitioner and a midwife. In 2018 Jenna joined Connecticut Childbirth and Women’s Center as a staff midwife; the Center’s midwives attended pregnant people in a freestanding birth center and in the hospital, a fruitful situation to develop skill at co-managing complex situations. Her family nurse practitioner certification allows her to provide holistic care to people at all stages of life. In 2021, Jenna felt pulled to come back to live full-time in her East Village home. She is so excited to join Cosmos Midwifery to offer her skills and compassion in support of families who have chosen to give birth at home. |
Shawna King, licensed midwife
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Shawna King, CM, LMAmai MidwiferySince 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. |
Shar LaPorte, licensed midwife
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Shar LaPorte, LM, CNMMidwifery Care NYCShar 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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Chloë Lubell, licensed midwife
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Chloë Lubell LM, CNM, WHNPCosmos MidwiferyChloë Lubell graduated from Yale School of Nursing in 2014 and started her midwifery journey at Bellevue Hospital, where she learned to provide midwifery care within a large, industrial, medical system. In 2017 she began working with Central Park Midwifery, a small private practice that supports births at Mount Sinai West. After her own homebirth to her daughter Io Aurora, she began dreaming of making the transition to homebirth, and finally Cosmos Midwifery was born in 2020.
She specializes in respectful, compassionate care in all aspects of healthcare, offering pregnancy and birth care as well as gynecology, reproductive health services, IUI and fertility care, and reproductive care for trans & GNC people. |
Anne Margolis, licensed midwife
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Anne Margolis CNM, LM, MSN, BSNHome Sweet Homebirth MidwiferyAnne Margolis is a Licensed Certified Nurse Midwife, 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 25 + 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.
Anne created her signature online holistic childbirth preparation course “Love Your Birth, and is a two times number one national and international best selling author of ‘Natural Birth Secrets: An Insider’s Guide to Give Birth Holistically, Healthfully, and Safely, and Love the Experience’ and Trauma Release Formula: The Revolutionary Step by Step Program for Eliminating Effects of Childhood Abuse, Trauma, Emotional Pain, and Crippling Inner Stress, to Living in Joy Without Drugs or Therapy,’both out in 2nd edition. Home Sweet Homebirth Midwifery 211 Birchwood Ave Nyack, NY 10960 |
Eva Martineau, licensed midwife
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Eva Martineau, CNM, MPH, IBCLCHeart Science MidwiferyMidwifery is a second career for Eva. She first met and was inspired by midwives while working at the NYC Health Dept for the Bureau of Maternal and Infant Health. Soon after, she returned to graduate school in pursuit of her midwifery degree and became an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator along the way. While in midwifery school, she learned from her father - now retired OBGYN - that her own great grandparents in Haiti were town healers and birthworkers themselves! She feels privileged to carry the legacy of her great grandparents, and to care for people through the transformative event that is birth.
She also feels passionately about the significance of birth in the human life course - especially among historically disempowered populations, and sees her role as midwife as an opportunity to hold space for empowering birthers and families. As a person who has had 3 births under the care of midwives, she’s experienced the magnitude of this transformation firsthand. She was born in Mexico and speaks fluent Spanish and mediocre Haitian Kreyol. When not midwifing, she enjoy hobbying with her children, spending time with her family in her multigenerational home in Brooklyn, and exploring delicious NYC food spots with her midwife partners at Heart Science Midwifery! |
Lindsey Mayo, licensed midwife
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Lindsey Mayo, LMMidwifery Care NYCLindsey Mayo is a Licensed Midwife (LM) and an American College of Nurse Midwives Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) currently licensed as a Midwife and Registered Nurse (RN) by the State of New York. Before embarking on her career as a midwife, she was a birth doula for eight years. Lindsey’s dream of becoming a midwife was cemented through her work with Family Care International, a NY based non-profit focused on making childbirth safer for people in rural and indigenous communities in Africa and Latin America. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Spanish from the college of Charleston and has spent extensive time traveling through South America. Lindsey then completed a Master’s of Midwifery at SUNY Downstate in New York City. Lindsey is now pursuing continued education in advanced clinical herbalism through the Herbal Academy. Having been witness to all forms of birth in all birthing environments, she believes strongly in evidenced based care and client-centered birth practices.
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Amanda Mondesir, licensed midwife
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Amanda Mondesir LM, CM, Masters of Science in MidwiferyMonDèsir MidwiferyMy calling to birth work began over 25 years ago with the birth of my own child. Feeling completely disempowered with routine obstetric led care I was encouraged to seek out the care of a midwife, I am forever grateful to have followed this route. I feel a sense of duty as a human being to help other women have births as lovely as, if not more amazing than my own!
So in 2012 I obtained my Masters of Science in Midwifery from SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Over the past 10 years working as a midwife I have only fallen deeper in love with birth, with the miracle of creating life and with the majestic forces that are present when a woman is birthing. I’ve learned that the best way to achieve a natural birth is to create an alkaline body state, to clear the mind of any fear and self doubt, to be reverent of nature and to practice gratitude which encourages harmony with the universe. I absolutely enjoy teaching women that are ready to take an active approach to manifesting the birth experiences that they desire. My soul and spirit are aligned to help women birth, this work is my life's blood. MonDèsir Midwifery “You can not grow something inside of you without something inside of you growing” -Amanda Mondesir LM, CM, MS 845-317-9902 www.Mondesirmidwifery.com |
Kateryn Nuñez, licensed midwife
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Kateryn Nuñez
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Nuranisa Rae, licensed midwife
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Nuranisa Rae, MSN, LM, CNMNur MidwiferyThe 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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Annalee Reid, licensed midwife
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Annalee Reid, LM, CNMSuperMamma Birth ServicesI always knew I wanted to work with women and babies since 4 years old, but in the Summer of 2013 I fell in love with midwifery and started on the journey. I have since then attended Midwives College of Utah to become a Certified Professional Midwife, become a Birth doula, lived in Guatemala for 3 months serving at birth centers outside of the capital and in the mountains with the indigenous midwives. I moved back to New York and had to complete a Master’s in Midwifery to be licensed here and so that’s what I did!
I have a deep passion for my community which is demonstrated through my work thus far with SuperMamma Birth Services. From public speaking on women’s health topics, to education for mammas and partners, to Community Baby Showers, advocacy work with the Birth Justice Defenders, and contributing to research for improvement of fetal and maternal health. I believe that midwifery honors the beautiful dance between mind, body and soul. An incredible collision of science and poetry. Midwifery is my heart and soul! *Se Habla Español* |
Sorayya Kassamali Rickicki, licensed midwife
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Sorayya Kassamali Rickicki LM, CM, IBCLCTaarab Birth & MidwiferySorayya is a licensed midwife and international board certified lactation consultant. Before becoming a midwife, she worked as a birth doula and lactation consultant in both hospital and out-of-hospital settings. Sorayya earned her Master of Science (MS) degree with honors in midwifery from SUNY Downstate University. She 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, childbearing, and menopause are pivotal moments in a person’s life and compassionate support during these transitional periods is a basic right that all people are entitled to. Sorayya has been practicing homebirth midwifery in NYC since 2019 and in 2024 will start lending her midwifery skills a few months out of the year to rural communities on the small island of Zanzibar in Tanzania, East Africa where her family is from. 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 busy being a midwife, she is a mother of three children who are her ultimate teachers in life and who show her every day the importance of patience, love, gratitude and acceptance. Sorayya is fluent in Spanish and English and services families in all 5 boroughs.
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Ellen Sidles, licensed midwife
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Ellen Sidles, CM, CLCSunflower Midwives NY
Ellen is a birth worker who brings to her midwifery practice 35 years of well-rounded practice,
including 12 years of focused homebirth assisting. She has been fortunate to have worked alongside many skilled midwives and is now the primary home birth midwife at Sunflower Midwives. Her focus is on each birthing person as a unique individual in the context of a whole network of support and is honored to hold space for health and safety as they grow and give birth to a new family member as well as integrate in the crucial postpartum period. Her services include pre-conception, prenatal, homebirth, postpartum, breast/chest feeding support, and gynecology. All services are offered in the comfort of your home as well as in- office. |
Malki Schuler, licensed midwife
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Malki Schuler, CNMHolistic MidwiferyMalki is honored to be a certified nurse midwife. Malki graduated Cum Laude from NYU with an accelerated Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing. She started her women’s healthcare journey working as a labor and delivery nurse at a tertiary hospital in Manhattan for seven years. Malki graduated at the top of her class from SUNY Downstate with a Master of Science degree in Nurse Midwifery.
Compassionate and vibrant, Malki invests her complete self when caring for clients. With sensitivity and warmth, Malki provides evidence-based care individually tailored to meet each woman’s unique needs and preferences. Malki is humbled to care for and guide each family throughout their personal journey as they work to achieve an uninterrupted, physiologic birth. Malki is passionate about health education. She is a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, American Academy of Pediatrics/American Heart Association certified Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Instructor, and has taught a month-long Women’s Health seminar to teens. Malki lives in Far Rockaway with her husband and two adorable children. |
Julia Steinrueck, licensed midwife
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Julia Steinrueck, CNMHolistic Midwifery
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Kimm SUN, licensed midwife
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Kimm SUN
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Dra. T'Karima Ticitl, licensed midwife
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Dra. T'Karima Ticitl
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Trinisha Williams, licensed midwife
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Trinisha Williams
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Tanya Wills, licensed midwife
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Tanya Wills, MSN, LM, CNM, WHNP-BC, IBCLCManhattan Birth MidwiferyTanya Wills is a Licensed Midwife, Board Certified Women’s Healthcare Nurse Practitioner, and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant licensed in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
She is a graduate of the midwifery program at Yale University, where she received her Master of Science in Nursing with top honors. At Yale, she received the Power Day Award, chosen by her peers as a promising healthcare provider who uses her power as a force for good. Tanya is the founder of Manhattan Birth, offering childbirth education, lactation support, and training for birth workers in an effort to revolutionize the experience of the childbearing year. Because it matters. Tanya offers an integrative, down-to-earth approach to your care, that centers around you. You are the expert in you, your life, and your body. As your midwife, Tanya is calm, clear and informative. She supports you fully while recognizing your experiences as an individual will inform your decision making process in pregnancy and as a parent. We offer inclusive, gender affirming and trauma informed care that considers the whole person. We are here to empower you to become absolutely certain you understand your care and your body. Our aim is to develop a relationship with you around your pregnancy and homebirth, so you can discover your own strength and badassery through this life transforming process. It's time to meet yourself. |
