Judy Riber-Bush, licensed midwife
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Judy Ribner- Bush CNM, MS, LMHolistic Midwifery New YorkHOLISTIC 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. |
Chloe Campbell, licensed midwife
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Chloe Campbell
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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 CNM, CLCNFC MidwiferyNicole 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. |
Ruchi Cohen, licensed midwife
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Ruchi Cohen, MSN, CNM
Holistic Midwifery New YorkHOLISTIC 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. |
Andrea Diamond, licensed midwife
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Andrea Diamond
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Jenna Hutchens, licensed midwife
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Jenna Hutchens, LM, CNM, FNP-C
Cosmos 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. |
Robina Khalid, licensed midwife
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Robina Khalid, LM, CM, PhDSmall Things Grow MidwiferySmall Things Grow Midwifery, founded by Robina Khalid (LM/PhD), offers compassionate, inclusive, full-spectrum midwifery care to the unique individuals and families of NYC/Lenapehoking.
Robina is a Licensed Midwife who grew up with her feet on two continents, reading books on Brooklyn stoops and running through rainstorms on Lahore rooftops. After a career in academia and activism, she was awarded a Master's in Midwifery with top honors from SUNY Downstate in 2015. From there she worked in a high volume public hospital where she cared for hundreds of individuals and families diverse in race, class, ethnicity, and gender expression and passionately advocated for their sense of autonomy while facilitating the safe and loving births of their babies. Her homebirth practice, founded in 2017, provides affirming, laughter-filled, high-touch care in a rushed, high-tech world. Her goal is to center your joy, resilience, and sense of power in the sacred experiences of pregnancy, birth, and parenthood. She is trauma informed and a health at any size provider. Robina is motivated by the belief that midwifery care is a key 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. She is passionate about working toward the health equity and reproductive self-determination of all individuals. Let's work together and change the world, one birth at a time! |
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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Malaika Miller, licensed midwife
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Malaika Miller, MSN, CNMMother Ocean MidwiferyI am an Afro-Caribbean Afro-Latinx licensed Certified Nurse Midwife of Panamanian and Jamaican descent. I see Midwifery as my calling. I was called to do this work after the birth of my Godson, whose birth was attended by a Midwife nearly 10 years ago. I earned my Masters of Science in Nurse Midwifery from Columbia University School of Nursing in October 2016. I have been practicing as a full-scope Midwife in NYC since 2016. I am also an instructor in the current Graduate Midwifery Program at Columbia. I am passionate about educating more culturally competent full-scope midwives. Over the years, I have learned that, if we are intentional, we can work to combat the racial and ethnic disparities in maternal morbidity and
mortality. This is my impetus for starting Mother Ocean Midwifery providing homebirth midwifery services. Mother Ocean Midwifery pays homage to Yemayá. Yemayá is an Orisha, the Yoruba goddess of the ocean and pregnant women. She is recognized in Candomblé and Santeria folk religions in Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latinx cultures as well. She is the Orisha of fertility as well as bodies of water. Her domain is all waters, including the bag of water inside of the womb. Yemayá is called upon by pregnant wombmen for safety. She is the protector of wombmen and the ruler of fertility, childbirth and healing. Yemayá protects the mother and her child and ensures a safe birth. |
Christiane McCloskey, licensed midwife
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Christiane McCloskey, CM MS
City Midwifery P.C.Christiane McCloskey has been a practicing midwife for over 20 years. Her journey began with the birth of her first son and an introduction to the birth world in New York City in the late 1980s. She quickly became a “birth groupie”, and was greatly influenced by her mentors: childbirth educators, lactation specialists and midwives. As she followed her path to midwifery, she established her own doula practice (Brooklyn Doula Service), taught prenatal and postpartum exercise classes, and spent thousands of hours supporting breastfeeding mothers.
After the homebirth of her second son, she realized her dream and graduated from the SUNY Downstate Midwifery program with a MS in Midwifery and was credentialed as an ACNM/AMCB Certified Midwife. Christiane believes that every woman has the right to a satisfying birth experience. She believes that nature and the woman’s own body have an instinctive “intelligence” that guides her through labour and the birth of her children. Women also have the right to choose, to be in charge of their health and their bodies. Midwifery support during pregnancy and birth is important, but it isn’t everything that she offers. Christiane also has experience with family planning and gynecological care. A woman and her family need a clear and supportive voice to guide them through the amazing journey to parenthood. As a midwife, Christiane is uniquely suited to provide that guidance. |
Anne Margolis, licensed midwife
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Amanda Mondesir LM, CM, Masters of Science in Midwifery
MonDèsir MondesirMy 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 |
Cara Muhlhahn, licensed midwife
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Cara Muhlhahn, CNMCara Muhlhahn Midwifery
Cara Muhlhahn, CNM is a graduate of Columbia University School of Nursing, and SUNY Downstate Health Science Center in Brooklyn's Midwifery Education Program. Prior to starting her private practice in 1996, Cara practiced midwifery at Beth Israel Medical Center, and at Maternity Center, Inc., Manhattan's first out of hospital birthing center. Cara lives in Manhattan with her son Liam, who was born at home.
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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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Sorayya Kassamali Rickicki, licensed midwife
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Sorayya Kassamali Rickicki
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Malki Schuler, licensed midwife
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Malki Schuler, CNMHolistic Midwifery New YorkMalki 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 New York & Midwifery Care NYCJulia Steinrueck is a Certified Nurse Midwife. She graduated with honors from New York University with a Bachelors of Science in Nursing, and worked as a labor and delivery nurse at a high volume academic hospital in NYC for over 5 years. During that time she completed her masters in midwifery and graduated from SUNY Downstate with honors.
Julia’s interest in midwifery started at the age of 17 when she shadowed a home birth midwife for a year and realized midwifery was her passion. She then went on to become a doula, and to work as a birth assistant for homebirth midwives alongside nursing. Through all of these experiences, she gained an appreciation for the intimate interaction a birthing person has with their midwife, the necessity to develop a trusting relationship between client and provider and to advocate for people to be able to birth in the comfort of their own space and on their own terms. Julia believes in respectful evidence based care, and the importance of informed consent and shared decision making. She strives to provide individualized and safe care tailored to the specific needs of each birthing person, and aims to diversify birthing options by increasing access to out of hospital birth for expecting families. She is BLS, ACLS and NRP certified with hands on experience in neonatal resuscitation. SHe works alongside Judy, Rachel, & Malki at Holistic Midwifery New York. |
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, IBCLC
Manhattan 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. |
Jo Zassloff, licensed midwife
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Jo Zassloff, CNMNettle WellnessJo Zasloff (she/her) is a certified nurse midwife with more than twelve years of experience caring for pregnant and non pregnant people. Jo holds a bachelor's degree in film, medical anthropology and women’s studies from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in Nursing and a master’s degree in Midwifery from Columbia University School of Nursing. She began her career as a Nurse Midwife at Mount Sinai East hospital in NYC in 2008. Through the years, she has worked in a variety of settings including busy hospitals, small private practice and birthing centers and now homebirth. Jo couldn't be more excited to help her clients feel empowered by their pregnancy and birth experience. When Jo isn’t delivering babies or talking about wellness, she runs a non-toxic hair and body line with her two sisters, called Sisters Body where they donate 40% of their profits to protecting reproductive rights. Jo lives with her husband, Anand and her two children, Uma and Zazie in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn.
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Tania Zirulnik, licensed midwife
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Tania Zirulnik, CM, LM, Partera, CLCTania Zirulnik Home BirthingI graduated in 2002 from the Midwifery Education program of Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima-Peru, my native country.
Prior to coming to the U.S., I worked as a midwife in hospitals and birthing centers providing primary and pregnancy care to women. I have been a part of approximately 300 births. My practice includes personalized holistic care during pregnancy, birth and postpartum. I connect with people across various ethnic cultures as I am bilingual (English/Spanish). I have been living in Brooklyn since 2009 with my loving husband, Brad and now my daughters Sofia, born in October 2012 and Sierra born in October 2014. Soy graduada del programa de Obstetricia de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima-Peru, mi pais de origen.
Antes de venir a USA, trabaje como partera en hospitales y centros de parto brindando cuidado primario y prenatal a las mujeres. He formado parte de un total de 300 partos. Mis servicios como partera incluyen cuidado holistico y personalizado durante el embarazo, parto y postparto. Me relaciono con personas de diferentes grupos etnicos y culturales ya que soy bilingue (Ingles/Espanol). Vivo en Brooklyn desde el 2009 con mi querido esposo Brad y ahora con mis hijas Sofia, nacida en Octubre del 2012 y Sierra nacida en Octubre del 2014. |
