Takiya Sakına Ballard, licensed midwife
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Takiya Sakina Ballard, CNMSakina Midwifery ServiceTakiya Sakina Ballard completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1998 at Syracuse University as a single mother. In 2003, she received her Masters in Midwifery from New York University and immediately began practicing midwifery at a hospital-based practice in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Takiya is a crusader for women, an advocate for natural intact birth, and a nurse midwife who's cared for thousands of families and helped nearly that same number of women to birth their babies.
She has experience teaching maternal-child health nursing and clinical midwifery and has worked with Amish and Mennonite families, attending births in the freestanding birthing center, a hospital, and in the clientss' homes. It was here that she witnessed the power of women to exercise and voice their desires to a community of practitioners who listened and afforded women the choice of birthing wherever and however they wanted. She's supervised medical missions programs and provided women's health and maternity care to women who walked miles just receive care. In 2013, she returned to Brooklyn, her hometown and started Sakina Midwifery Service in 2014. Takiya offers exceptional midwifery care to the women in the comfort of their own homes, "the way it used to be." |
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. |
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. |
Robina Khalid, licensed midwife
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Robina Khalid, LM, CM, PhDSmall Things Grow MidwiferySmall Things Grow Midwifery offers individualized, evidence-based prenatal, birth, postpartum, and well-person care to the unique individuals and families of NYC.
I integrate the best of current research and practices with ancient, holistic midwifery wisdom. My goal is to communicate to you the things you need to know to be an active participant in your own health care, to allow you to be heard as the ultimate authority in your own physical and spiritual well being, and to safely facilitate your sense of power in the sacred experiences of pregnancy, birth, and parenthood. I pride myself in developing a respectful, trusting partnership with my clients and in holding a space during prenatal visits and births that is relaxed, laughter-filled, and high-touch in a rushed, high-tech world. I believe respectful midwifery care to be a 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. I am passionate about working toward the health equity and reproductive self-determination of all individuals, and to making homebirth accessible to all who want it. Let's work together and change the world, one birth at a time! |
Umaimah Mahmud-Thiam, licensed midwife
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Umaimah Mahmud-Thiam
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Anne Margolis, licensed midwife
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Anne Margolis CNM, LM, MSN, BSNHome Sweet Homebirth MidwiferyAnne Margolis is a Licensed Certified Nurse Midwife, OB/GYN Nurse Practitioner, 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 20+ 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.
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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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Sakina O'Uhuru, licensed midwife
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Sakina O'Uhuru
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Valeriana Pasqua-Masback, licensed midwife
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Valeriana Pasqua-Masback
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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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Marcy Tardio, licensed midwife
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Marcy Tardio, CNM, LMMarcyTardioHomebirth
I am Marcy Tardio, a certified nurse-midwife licensed in NY and NJ. As of 2018 I am in my 30th year as a midwife and 21st as a homebirth midwife. Prior to midwifery I worked as an RN in areas as diverse as oncology, critical care, hospice and maternal-child health. These diverse areas have taught me honor and respect of the myriad cycles of life.
I completed my midwifery training in 1988 through the San Francisco General/University of California SF Midwifery Program. I started my professional career in the Boston area in a hospital-based midwifery practice, where I practiced full-scope midwifery for five years. In1993, after 24 years away, I returned to my hometown of New York City, where I worked at the grandmother of free-standing birth centers: The Maternity Center Childbearing Center. I was a founding member of the Elizabeth Seton Birth Center, where I "caught" the first baby at its 1996 opening. I have now provided homebirth services in New York City and parts of New Jersey since 1997. Childbirth is an intimate time. In this spirit I provide care for my clients in their homes. I hold the essential belief that birth is "something women do" as compared to a medical procedure to be "done to" women. I also believe that "birth works most of the time". I trust, and encourage my clients to trust in the body's innate wisdom and I respect birth as a family-centered event that includes recognition and respect for cultural and spiritual traditions. |
Tanya Wills, licensed midwife
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Tanya Wills, MSN, LM, CNM, WHNP-BC, IBCLCManhattan Bith Midwifery
Tanya Wills is a graduate of the midwifery program at Yale University, where she received her Master of Science in Nursing/Midwifery and also earned her R.N. (Registered Nurse).
She is also the owner and founder of Manhattan Birth, where she and her team provide "heartfelt, down-to-earth, no-purple-crystals" childbirth preparation classes and support groups for families in NYC. A former actress, Tanya was drawn to this work after the powerful birth of her son, Milo, born at home in 2008. "I never had a home birth because I wanted to be transformed - but that is exactly what happened to me that day. I was suddenly drowning in buckets of blessings I never expected to receive. It was mind-blowing." Tanya is also an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and incorporates complete lactation support into the care of every client, along with providing annual wellness exams, contraception, and childbirth education in the community. |
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. |
