Lisa Benedetto, licensed midwife
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Lisa Benedetto, MSN, CNM, LMIndian Creek Midwifery & Birth Center
I first began practicing midwifery in Boulder, Colorado where I spent the majority of my adult years living in the Rocky Mountains and raising my daughter, Sierra. I graduated from Colorado University in 2005 with a Bachelor’s in Nursing and went on to complete a Master of Science in Nurse-Midwifery from Frontier Nursing University in 2009. I have attended over 1000 births and supported many more laboring mothers along the way. I am a member of the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) and the New York State Association of Licensed Midwives (NYSALM). My midwifery experience during the past 10 years includes practicing in busy hospitals, rural birth centers and lovely private homes. Over the years, I have learned that attending home births is where my midwife heart is fullest! Most importantly, owning and operating my own practice allows me to provide the most competent, compassionate, individualized care that I am able to. Supporting physiologic birth and assisting women to make informed decisions are a few of the important values that help guide the services I offer.
I look forward to meeting you and your family. |
Debora Bissonnette, licensed midwife
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Debora Bissonnette, CNMSeptember Hill MidwiferyDeb has been taking care of mothers, babies, and families for over 30 years. (OB nurse,13; CNM, 17+) Her greatest joy flows from protecting the sacred journey of birth for the family. Birth matters. Her greatest passions are her faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, music (a flutist for 45 years), horses, and all of Father God's creations. Deb would be honored to assist you as go through your journey into becoming parents.
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Jeanette Breen, licensed midwife
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Jeanette Breen, CNMBaldwin Midwifery ServiceI 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. |
Julie Carlson, licensed midwife
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Julie Carlson, LM, CNM, MSWMama Bear MidwiferyI am a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM), a Licensed Midwife (LM) and I also hold a Master's in Social Work. I became a midwife because I want health care to be a positive, empowering, and transformative experience. Whether it be a check-up, family planning or home birth, we all have the right to be treated with compassion, respect, and as the expert of our own experience.
I graduated from Nurse Midwifery school at the University of California, San Francisco in 2007. I started my career as a hospital based midwife and am very appreciative of the diverse experiences I have had which have ranged from home-like natural birth experiences to caring for clients with high-risk pregnancies. I moved to home birth in 2015 to support a wider variety of natural birthing options. I also wanted to have more quality time with clients and continuity of care. Along with Midwifery, I have a passion for herbalism, martial arts, yoga, the outdoors, and gardening. I am grateful to my ancestors, midwife elders, family, and friends who have supported me along my path. I cover a 45-60 mile radius around Hamilton, NY. |
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 Bachelor's 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 alongside Home Birth Midwives in Westchester, New York. She was intrigued by the positive energy of the families, the power of the mothers to 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 based 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. |
K. Michelle Doyle, licensed midwife
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K. Michelle Doyle, MSN, CNM, LMLocal Care Midwifery, PLLCMichelle loves what she does. Since 1999, she has "caught" over 1200 babies, and been present at the birth of thousands more. Michelle gave birth to her own three children at home.
In 2009, Michelle founded Local Care Midwifery, the first independent midwifery practice in the Capital District offering home birth services. LCM was born of Michelle's intense commitment to provide women of NY's Capital District with a local, legal option for home birth as well as personal, attentive Well Woman Care. Since 2015, Michelle has had privileges at Bellevue Hospital in Niskayuna and planned hospital birth is an option for LCM clients. |
Jennifer Fegan-Szalay, licensed midwife
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Jennifer Fegan-Szalay, LM, CMBlessingway Midwifery Care, PLLCI believe in empowering women and families through birth.
I believe that women have the right to make informed choices about pregnancy, birth, and postpartum care. I believe in the power and beauty of birth. Jennifer has been serving women and families at home and in hospital for over 15 years. Our practice provides personalized pregnancy, birth, and postpartum care as well as fertility awareness and newborn well-visits. Waterbirth and expert lactation support are also available. All prenatal testing is offered and many insurance companies will provide coverage for all or part of the care provided. Call or email for a free consultation and to inquire about availability for your due month. |
Salwaa Health Midwifery
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Saidah N. Haziz-Ramadhan, BSBio, MS, LM, CMSalwaa Health Midwifery¬EDUCATION
-State University of New York Downstate Medical Center - MS Degree, Midwifery -New York College of Osteopathic Medicine - Post-Baccalaureate -Molloy College -BS Degree, Biology/Pre-Medical Studies Midwife Saidah Haziz-Ramadhan distinguishes herself with experience and expertise in midwifery, health, education, business, and community-based work. She takes a hands-on approach to working with clients and other professionals, and implementing accessible ways to deliver quality midwifery, health and wellness, and education services to women and their families. Saidah Haziz-Ramadhan brings more than technical skills to her professional development and endeavors. Her management style and understandings of health, family, life, and the whole person enables her to bridge and foster meaningful, and respectful, collaborative relations with clients and experts in the fields of health, education, and business. |
Julia Hausman, licensed midwife
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Julia Hausman, CNM, LMMoonsong MidwiferyAs a midwife, I see my role as primarily an educator and a supporter.
I offer my knowledge training and experience, as well as evidence based information. I will answer your questions or help you find the answers if I don't have them. I also see compassion, humor and deep listening as essential to developing a connection with my clients and allowing me to provide excellent care. As my client, I expect you to engage with and take responsibility for your care. It is my job to help you understand your choices. It is your job to make the decisions that are right for your body, your birth, your baby and your family. I will support your informed decisions, while also using my experience to ensure your safety at all times. This model may be new to you. That's OK! I will help guide you through this process of collaborative decision making. |
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 |
Kelly McDermott, licensed midwife
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Kelly McDermott, CNM, LMSage Femme MidwiferyKelly McDermott, Founder and Director of Sage-femme Midwifery, was called to midwifery as a ministry and vocation by the birth of her first child at home in 1984. Like many midwives, her relationship with birth has been long and varied. She has been privileged to serve as a direct-entry midwife, a Certified Professional Midwife, a labor and delivery nurse, and as a Masters prepared Certified Nurse Midwife. She believes that birth is a healthy life process that unfolds best with nourishment, support, encouragement, and, in most cases, without interference. She also believes that women should be empowered to create their own birth plans and birth experiences, and should be educated to be actively involved in decision-making and self-care for all aspects of their health. They can be trusted to take responsibility for their choices. She believes that birth can be life changing in many complex ways and that the opportunities for growth through this amazing life process are rich and infinite. Her calling and life’s work is to care for women, their families, and their babies with these core beliefs as guiding principles. Her return to homebirth is a celebration and a rekindling of her commitment to women and birth.
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Nicole Primoff
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Betsy Mercogliano, licensed midwife
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Betsy Mercogliano LM/CNM, CPMFamily Life MidwiferyI have been supporting birthing mothers and offering Midwifery and Doula care for more than three decades. As a Licensed and Certified Professional Midwife, I have a special focus on Home Birth. I am also the mother of two grown daughters, a wife, a grandmother, a teacher of families, doulas and midwife apprentices, a childbirth educator, a birth activist and founder of the Family Life Center. I am one of the founders of BirthNet, a local non-profit organization whose mission is to educate the public about maternity care in order to improve it. I am currently working hard building the Birth Justice Coalition to address vast disparities in maternal and infant mortality for women of color in Albany. I train doulas and am happy to have seen the number of doulas in the Capital District grow exponentially since I began our trainings. I received my Registered Nurse license in New York in 1980. After apprenticing for 15 years with two local birth professionals, I earned my Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) credential from the North American Registry of Midwives in 1998. In September, 2010, I earned my Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Midwifery from the National College of Midwifery. I received a license as a Midwife in NY State (LM/CNM) in 2011. I have been supporting families who want support using water during birth for over 20 years. I work in partnership whenever possible, always knowing that two heads and four hands are best! I know that families are powerful and deserve guidance, support and love as they travel their birth journey. I have been blessed to be present at hundreds of births of new families.
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Amanda MonDèsir, licensed midwife
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Amanda MonDèsir, LM, CM
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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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HeartSpace Midwifery
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Heidi Ricks, LMHeartSpace MidwiferyI came to birth work because I felt drawn by both the vulnerability and the power of pregnancy and birth. I continue my work as a midwife because it brings such joy to witness women and families transform as they prepare to welcome their babies. HeartSpace is the culmination of many years working with families in the area. We provide individualized, evidence-based care based firmly in trusting midwife/family relationship.
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Susan Rannenstad, licensed midwife
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Susan Rannestad LM, IBCLCRiver and Mountain MidwivesWhen I was a child and people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would look up at my Mom, a little shy, and she would say "a teacher or a nurse" then I would speak up and say "and a MOMMY." Now, as a Midwife I get to realize both my Mother's and my own dreams. Helping people learn more about their own healthcare and watching them make choices that are right for their families has been a gift to my own life. Being a Midwife for the last 30 years means I get to watch women be good mothers everyday. That is what I want for myself as well, to be a good Mother.
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Sunday W. Smith, licensed midwife
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Sunday W. Smith, CNMAs a Certified Nurse Midwife, I provide evidence based prenatal, birth, and postpartum care for families in the North Country planning to birth at home. I also provide well-woman care across the life cycle.
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Barbara Smith-Foy
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Barbara Smith-Foy, CNMAs a Midwife, I see feminine health and birth as a foundation for community.
Every woman deserves positive, self affirming, comprehensive health care. My role is to honor, support and educate women about their bodies while upholding their innate knowledge, to guide their health care decisions. The most gratifying result is building a relationship based on shared decision making; rooted in education, self acknowledgement and the belief in a physiological approach to health. |
Besholem Birth
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Janet Schwab, MSN, CNM, LMBesholem BirthBesholem translates to safe, intact, unharmed. I chose this name for my new midwifery practice because it so aptly describes my philosophy as a midwife. My role is to guide mothers, newborns and families through the pregnancy, birth and postpartum experience where normalcy is protected and supported. If health concerns arise, my knowledge and experience continues to protect the physical and psychological health of the birthing family.
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April Ward, licensed midwife
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April Ward, MSN, CNM, LMSeptember Hill MidwiferyI was trained in freestanding birth centers in Tennessee and Florida, graduating from Vanderbilt University in 2001. Since returning to New York State in 2002, I’ve had the privilege to care for families in a variety of community and hospital settings. The home waterbirth of my oldest daughter forever changed my life and my approach to birth. The arrival of an adopted daughter and a set of twin daughters completed my family. With each new baby, a new family is born. This is a sacred time - the choices we make about birth reflect our values and set the tone for the family we want to become.
September Hill Midwifery offers home birth and home-away-from-home birth in our beautiful Stork’s Nest BirthSpace. I see clients for prenatal, postpartum, and well-woman care in Burdett, NY and Skaneateles, NY. I would love to hear from you! |
Tanya Wills, licensed midwife
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Tanya Wills, CNM, 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. |
