Barbara Bechtel, licensed midwife
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Barbara Bechtel, CNMDahlia MidwiferyBarbara has been performing out-of-hospital births for over 16 years, and caring for prenatal, laboring and postnatal women for over three decades. In 2011, she moved from Indiana, where she owned and operated two freestanding birth centers, to Brooklyn to be with her family. After almost a year as Interim Director at Brooklyn Birthing Center, she is now helping women who choose out-of-hospital birth have this joyful experience in their homes. She has been helping families create the experience they want in a home birth in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx.
Barbara is a Certified Nurse-Midwife, and has worked in the past as an RN and Nurse Manager in labor and delivery, a nursing instructor for RN students and nurse practitioners, a preceptor for midwifery students, as well as a prenatal instructor for parents-to-be. She has an extensive primary care background, as well as in women's health, peri menopausal, and family planning. Barbara has a true belief in the power of birth. The process is designed beautifully, and normal births should be allowed to proceed in a normal fashion. Barbara believes it is her job to worry about the details, allowing the birthing mother to instead focus on her body and the power of the natural labor process. |
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. |
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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Memaniye Cinque, licensed midwife
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Nya Memaniye Cinque, CNMDyekora Sumda Midwifery ServicesI’ve been a midwife since 1998 when I graduated from SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn. I’ve worked in hospital and birthing center settings and have been in the homebirth setting since 2001 when I took on my first “private practice” client. I was a labor and delivery nurse for 10 years prior to returning to school for midwifery.
My path to midwifery started in 1987 when I gave birth to my second child at home. I had my first in a hospital and the two experiences were like night and day. I decided in that moment, feeling the euphoria of that experience, that assisting women in childbirth at home with as many loving, supportive people around her as she wanted was THE THING to do in my life. I am so grateful and feel so blessed to have shared and participated in the many wonderful journeys of the women whose births I have attended. The ability to assist women to do what the Creator has intended them to do, to grow within themselves and bring forth new life is what midwifery is to me. I offer full scope midwifery care including home birth, and well woman services. Serving the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut area within 1 hour travel time of my office location. |
Andrea Diamond, licensed midwife
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Andrea Diamond
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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. |
Kateryn Nuñez, licensed midwife
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Kateryn Nuñez
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Judy Ribner-Bush, licensed midwife
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Judy Ribner- Bush CNM, MS, LM
Holistic Midwifery New YorkHOLISTIC MIDWIFERY NEW YORK
Judy is a midwife because she believes in women. Her practice is predicated on her deep trust in the exquisite wisdom inherent in the female body. Judy provides care in a way that honors the laboring person and her unique personal journey to bring her baby forth. She encourages the laboring women to heed their inner voice and birth instinctively and powerfully. As a home birth mother, Judy feels a deep, personal connection to the vulnerability and power of childbirth. Her practice is an oasis for pregnant individuals seeking an authentically holistic experience. The care offers an integration of conventional , cutting edge midwifery research with traditional midwifery wisdom, Eastern medicine practices, and holistic wellness. Judy welcomes birthing people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and religious affiliations. She is humble toward cultural practices, religious belief systems, and the needs of the LGBTQ community. Judy offers integrative gynecologic services at the Integrative Juhi Ash Center. As a midwife, I have never met a person who has forgotten her birth experience. I am humbled to be in a woman’s birthing space. I practice with that responsibility. Birth is a sacred life event that can forever impact the way a woman feels about herself as a woman, the way she bonds with her baby, and the way she integrates her new maternal role into her identity. My cherishing of natural birth and holistic living is a multigenerational, deeply embedded value inherited down my maternal lineage. My great-grandmother breastfed against 1950s medical advice. My grandmother birthed six babies without an epidural and exclusively breastfed all of my aunts and uncles. I was born to an unmedicated mother who exclusively breastfed me. My mother would’ve birthed me at home. I have three homeborn children, four homeborn nephews and two homeborn nieces. Two of my children were born into my own waiting, loving arms. Judy is currently completing her doctorate, a DNP, at NYU. In recognition of Judy’s longstanding, stellar academic achievement, Judy has been awarded The National Merit Scholarship, NYS Scholarship of Academic Excellence, Robert Byrd Scholarship, CUNY Merit Scholarship, Susan Kun Leddy Scholarship, Rory Meyers Academic Scholarship, and NYU Social Justice Scholarship. Her writing and public speaking has been featured in Headlines and Midwifery Today. |
Sorayya Kassamali Rickicki, licensed midwife
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Sorayya Kassamali Rickicki
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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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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. |
