Judy Ribner-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 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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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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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. |
Jenna Hutchens, licensed midwife
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Jenna Hutchens, LM, CNM, FNP-CCosmos MidwiferyJenna 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. |
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. |
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! |
Christiane McCloskey, licensed midwife
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Christiane McCloskey, CM MSCity 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. |
Kateryn Nuñez, licensed midwife
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Kateryn Nuñez
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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. |
Ellen Sidles, licensed midwife
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Ellen Sidles CM CLCSunflower Midwives NYEllen 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. |
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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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. |
