Midwives Serving Staten Island

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​Jeanette Breen
​CNM

Baldwin Midwifery Service

​Chloe Campbell
​LM, CLC

Wildroot Midwifery
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Andrea Diamond
​LM, CNM, CLC, HBCE

Brooklyn Homebirth Midwifery

Robina Khalid, LM/CM, PhD

Small Things Grow Midwifery

Shawna King, LM/CM

Amai Midwifery
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Yuen Kwan Chan CNM, DNP, OB/GYN NP

TLC Midwifery Service 

Nya Memaniye Cinque, CNM
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Dyekora Sumda Midwifery Services

​Chloë Lubell
LM, CNM, WHNP

Cosmos Midwifery
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Kateryn Nuñez
LM, CNM,
​WHNP-BC

​Heart Science Midwifery

​Judy Ribner- Bush 
CNM, MS, LM
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​Holistic Midwifery New York ​
Sorayya Kassamali Rickicki
LM, IBCLC

Wildroot Midwifery
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Tania Zirulnik
CM, LM,
​Partera, CLC

​Tania Zirulnik
Home Birthing
Kimm SUN
Certified Nurse Midwife

​Heart Science Midwifery

​Dra. T'Karima Ticitl
​PhD, LM, CM

Cihuapahtli Midwifery
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Jeanette Breen, licensed midwife

Jeanette Breen, CNM

Baldwin Midwifery Service

I 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.
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Chloe Campbell, licensed midwife

Chloe Campbell
LM, CLC

Wildroot Midwifery

Chloe graduated from SUNY Downstate with a Master of Science Degree in Midwifery with honors. In the 10 years prior to earning her midwifery license, Chloe worked as a doula, midwife’s assistant and CLC. She developed a profound appreciation of birth, informed by the dual influence of families navigating their birth options, and by a community of skilled and experienced homebirth midwives delivering evidence-based care to their clients. She saw hundreds of uninterrupted physiologic births at home 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. Chloe is a student of herbal medicine and is in her 10th year of study. She has completed 3 levels of training with the wise and wonderful Karen Rose of Sacred Vibes Apothecary in Ditmas Park and has been on a continuous educational voyage with plant medicine ever since. Her expertise focuses on healing plants from Western Europe and North America. 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 jumping in the cold pool 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. Chloe is in partnership with Sorayya Kassamali Rickicki at Wildroot Midwifery.
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Yuen Kwan Chan, licensed midwife

Yuen Kwan Chan 
CNM, DNP, OB/GYN NP

TLC Midwifery Service 

Yuen Kwan Chan is a New York State CNM, and OB/GYN NP since 2009.  She started her career as a RN at NorthShore University Level 3 NICU since 2007. She received her BSN, MSN degrees from Stony Brook University on 2009 while she was a nurse in NICU. During her time at North Shore LIJ, she discovered her true passion for women health and babies. Being fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin, she has devoted most of her midwifery career to empower women about natural birth through education and providing individualized care for women in the Asian community.

Since then, she had over a few thousands of successful deliveries during her career over the past decade. She even further her education to better serve the community by getting her Doctorate in Midwifery and women's health in 2014. With a multi-diverse experience in different birth settings range from Hospital, Birthing Center and Home birth, Yuen Kwan is confident and experiences in providing each woman the birth of their dream. She believes that every women deserve the best and individualized care and to remember this precious moment of their life.

She has affiliations and delivering privileges with NYU Langone hospital, Maimonides Medical Center and Brooklyn Birthing Center.  With the passion of education, she is also an adjunct faculty member at Adelphi University's College of Nursing. She is a certified lactation consultant (CLC). She is passionate about breastfeeding and helping mothers with infant care. 
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Memaniye Cinque, licensed midwife

Nya Memaniye Cinque, CNM

Dyekora Sumda Midwifery Services

I’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.
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Andrea Diamond, licensed midwife

Andrea Diamond
LM, CNM, CLC, HBCE

Brooklyn Homebirth Midwifery

Andrea brings more than a decade’s worth of out of hospital birthing experience to her home birth practice. She graduated from SUNY Downstate with honors and has been listed in Who’s Who twice for her outstanding academic achievements. From hospitals, to the Brooklyn Birthing Center, where she served as senior midwife, and ultimately to her true passion, home birth, Andrea brings her calming, respectful, family-centered caring.
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Andrea seamlessly incorporates evidence based practice and holistic care, spending time getting to know her clients and their individual needs and preferences in order to provide the most individualized and safest care possible. She incorporates her backgrounds in Eastern and Western healing (she graduated from the Swedish Institute in 1996) and yogic practice (she received her yoga teaching certification in 2001) to offer the best of both worlds. Andrea is also a certified lactation counselor and a childbirth educator.
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Robina Khalid, licensed midwife

Robina Khalid, LM, CM, PhD

Small Things Grow Midwifery

Small 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!
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Shawna King, licensed midwife

Shawna King, CM, LM

Amai Midwifery

Since 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.
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Chloë Lubell, licensed midwife

Chloë Lubell LM, CNM, WHNP​

Cosmos Midwifery

Chloë 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.
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Kateryn Nuñez, licensed midwife

Kateryn Nuñez 
LM, CNM,WHNP-BC

Heart Science Midwifery

Kateryn Nuñez is a Certified Nurse Midwife, and a Woman's Health Nurse Practitioner. She has worked with Kimm Sun since 2012 and is now an official partner midwife with Heart Science Midwifery. ​
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Judy Ribner-Bush, licensed midwife

Judy Ribner- Bush  CNM, MS, LM

​Holistic Midwifery New York

HOLISTIC 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.
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Sorayya Kassamali Rickicki, licensed midwife

Sorayya Kassamali Rickicki
LM, IBCLC

Wildroot Midwifery

Sorayya is a licensed midwife and international board certified lactation consultant. Before becoming a midwife, she worked as a birth doula and IBCLC in both hospital and out-of-hospital settings. Sorayya earned her Master of Science (MSc) degree with honors in midwifery and 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, childbirth, and menopause are pivotal moments in a person’s life and that compassionate support during these transitional periods is a right that every person is entitled to. Her experiences over the many years she has served families in pregnancy, childbirth and lactation have taught her that we are indeed strong and resilient beings and with well-matched clinical support, these pivotal moments can be experienced with more clarity, mindfulness, confidence, and ultimately, joy. 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 being a midwife, she is a busy mother of three children who are her ultimate teachers in life and who show her every day the importance of patience, love and gratitude. She loves to travel the world and visit wild places where her kids can roam freely, watch dolphin pods swim by as her son surfs in Rockaway beach and plant herbs in her community garden. Sorayya is fluent in Spanish and English and is in partnership with Chloe Campbell at Wildroot Midwifery
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Kimm SUN, licensed midwife

Kimm SUN
Certified Nurse Midwife

Heart Science Midwifery

Kimm Sun is a Chinese Malaysian New Yorker who studied midwifery at the University of Pennsylvania. For her best part of being a midwife is to serve a very diverse New York City population, and to form an intimate relationship with each client. She has recently partnered with Kateryn Nunez, CNM, in order to provide a two-midwife team at births.

​FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT HEARTSCIENCEMIDWIFERY.COM.
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 Dra. T'Karima Ticitl, licensed midwife

Dra. T'Karima Ticitl
PhD, LM, CM

Cihuapahtli Midwifery

Dra. T'Karima Ticitl was born in California and grew up as a Xicana Indigena with her family background from Zacatecas and Jalisco, Mexico, with Mexica/Wixárika roots. She is the mother of three boys, all who were born at home, in the temazkalli (sweat lodge). Her life is dedicated to the ceremony of birth and peyotl. She is a ceremonial woman, active in the Native American Church, Teo Kali Quetzalcoatl and a Mexica dancer with her danza group, Kalpulli Huehuetlahtolli.

She received my bachelor’s degree in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley in 2005, and her Master’s in Childhood Education from New York University in 2006. She earned her Doctorate in Education from the University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College in 2011, and in that same year she enrolled and completed a six-month doula fellowship. She began online prerequisites for midwifery school in 2013, and in 2015 she began the Direct Entry Midwifery program at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, where she graduated in May 2019. She is certified with The American College of Nurse Midwives and licensed by the State of New York. Passionate about midwifery, she has enjoyed supporting and caring for people during pregnancy and childbirth throughout the United States, Mexico, Colombia, London, and New Zealand.

Dr. Ticitl is the Co-Founder/Co-Director of Traditional Doula and Midwifery Arts (TDMA). Dr. Ticitl is a health and fitness coach, she began work out programs with Team Beach Body and after completing the program, 80 day obsession with Autumn Calabrese, in 2018 she became a coach. Dr. Ticitl has authored six books: Freeing Nahua/Mexica/Aztec Children’s Literature from Stereotypes and Misconceptions, Blooming Flower, Shooting Star, Boys Can Have Long Hair, Too, Evolution of Traditional Doula and Midwifery Arts, Birth is a Ceremony, and My Body, My Birth. Lastly, Dr. Ticitl is the founder of Cihuapahtli Matriarch Council and she looks forward to her midwifery journey, she is super excited about her calling in life, a prayer answered, and would love to be your midwife.
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Tania Zirulnik, licensed midwife

Tania Zirulnik, CM, LM, Partera, CLC

Tania Zirulnik Home Birthing

I 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.
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