Indigo Adler, licensed midwife
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Indigo Adler LM, CNM, MSN, IBCLCHolistic Midwifery New YorkBorn at home into the hands of a midwife herself, Indigo sees birth as a natural life event and midwifery as a transformative framework to heal the world one person at a time. She became a midwife to empower others and her practice hinges on the cornerstones of compassion, consent, and shared decision-making. Indigo graduated Summa cum laude from New York University with a Master’s of Science in Nurse Midwifery where she was the two-time recipient of the Rory Meyers Academic scholarship as well as the Jorge Prada Memorial Nursing Conference scholarship.
Indigo is a New York State Licensed Midwife (LM), a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM), a Registered Nurse (RN), and an Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), providing nurturing, trauma-informed, full-spectrum perinatal and gynecologic care for people of all racial, religious, sexual and gender identities. She speaks English and intermediate Spanish. After being selected for a midwife fellowship with Midwifery Care NYC, an established home birth practice, Indigo continued pursuing her passion for community birth by joining Holistic Midwifery NY as a Certified Nurse Midwife in 2024. Coming from over five years of experience as a labor and delivery nurse at NYU Langone and New York Presbyterian hospitals, and as a birth assistant in both birth center and home settings, Indigo has had the privilege of supporting and advocating for hundreds of birthing people and families. She feels grateful to bring this depth of experience to the community setting where she enjoys providing warmth-infused, relationship-based care to clients in Long Island and the five boroughs. |
Yuen Kwan Chan, licensed midwife
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Yuen Kwan Chan
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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 Bachelors 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 along side Home Birth Midwives in Westchester, New York. She was intrigued by the positive energy of the families, the power of the mothers too 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 base 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. |
Ruchi Cohen, licensed midwife
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Ruchi Cohen, MSN, CNMHOLISTIC 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. |
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. |
Heather Findletar Hines, licensed midwife
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Dr. Heather Findletar Hines, CNM, FACNMOne Love Midwifery
Dr. Heather Findletar Hines (she/her) is a fierce Jamaican midwife who is also a certified yoga instructor, author, researcher, mother, and wife. With a huge heart and a thoughtful, level-headed approach to birth and health, she has been practicing Midwifery for over 22 years. She is the co-creator of One Love Midwifery, a private midwifery practice founded expressly to address the racism in healthcare and maternal mortality statistics in the US. She has championed doulas, collaborated to reduce the rate of primary cesarean birth, served students and colleagues through local, state, and national midwifery organizations, and promoted birth justice and equity throughout her career. Heather is currently the chair of the Suffolk County Legislative Task Force on Maternal Morbidity and Mortality for BIPOC women. She is the director of Midwifery Education at Stony Brook University, where she actively fosters the development of new midwives and diversity in the profession. Heather provides compassionate, evidence-based, customized care that promotes wellness. “Every individual needs to be SEEN and care should be individualized.” |
Sarah Anne Lovell, licensed midwife
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Sarah Anne Lovell LM, CNM, WHNP-BC, CLCSarah Anne Lovell is a Licensed Midwife, Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM), Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP-BC), Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC) and an experienced former doula. She is currently licensed in New York & Connecticut and practices in partnership with Tanya Wills LM, CNM, WHNP-BC, IBCLC at Manhattan Birth Midwifery. Sarah has worked not only as a doula, but as a childbirth educator, infant CPR instructor, and co-created the Integrative Lactation & Feeding Specialist course with Tanya at Manhattan Birth.
Sarah graduated from Yale School of Nursing with a Master’s of Science in Nursing, specializing in Midwifery and Women’s Health. While at Yale, she completed a special concentration in Gender, Sexuality & Health Justice, including a clinical placement at an LGBTQIA+ health care center providing adult primary care, gender affirming hormones, PrEP and HIV care. She has experience in large hospitals in NY and CT as well as a small community hospital in rural Vermont where she worked alongside midwives, family practice physicians and OBGYNs in a collaborative practice. Though she completed her midwifery training in hospitals and is so grateful for the care they provide, Sarah felt that she was personally called to provide inclusive reproductive care for people in the home setting where she could help her clients discover their own power and autonomy. Sarah is a fierce advocate for reproductive justice for all people, through birth services, prenatal care, well-person gyn care, fertility and IUI, sexual health, contraceptive counseling, as well as abortion services. Manhattan Birth Midwifery has offices in Manhattan, Garrison New York and New Milford Connecticut and serves Manhattan & Bronx, Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess Counties as well as parts of Southern Connecticut. She currently lives in Garrison, NY with her partner and their five, yes five, cats. |
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 |
Christiane McCloskey, licensed midwife
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Christiane McCloskey, CM MS
City 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. |
Amanda Mondesir, licensed midwife
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Amanda Mondesir LM, CM, Masters of Science in MidwiferyMonDèsir MidwiferyMy calling to birth work began over 25 years ago with the birth of my own child. Feeling completely disempowered with routine obstetric led care I was encouraged to seek out the care of a midwife, I am forever grateful to have followed this route. I feel a sense of duty as a human being to help other women have births as lovely as, if not more amazing than my own!
So in 2012 I obtained my Masters of Science in Midwifery from SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Over the past 10 years working as a midwife I have only fallen deeper in love with birth, with the miracle of creating life and with the majestic forces that are present when a woman is birthing. I’ve learned that the best way to achieve a natural birth is to create an alkaline body state, to clear the mind of any fear and self doubt, to be reverent of nature and to practice gratitude which encourages harmony with the universe. I absolutely enjoy teaching women that are ready to take an active approach to manifesting the birth experiences that they desire. My soul and spirit are aligned to help women birth, this work is my life's blood. MonDèsir Midwifery “You can not grow something inside of you without something inside of you growing” -Amanda Mondesir LM, CM, MS 845-317-9902 www.Mondesirmidwifery.com |
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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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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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 500 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 500 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. |
