Midwives

Midwives offer prenatal, delivery and postpartum care, as well as well-women gynecological care.  NYS Insurance Law requires insurance companies to reimburse for maternity care by a licensed midwife, which includes birth at home, birth centers or hospitals. 

HOSPITAL BASED MIDWIVES

Bluebird Midwifery
Catherine Clark
135 Union Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
718-855-8885
cat@bluebirdmidwifery.com
Bluebird Midwifery is located on Brooklyn’s Columbia Street waterfront, Bluebird Midwifery provides individualized, holistic, compassionate and respectful care to women of all ages. Gyn, prenatal and postpartum care is provided in a comfortable and supportive atmosphere either in your home or in the Union Street office. Births take place at Long Island College Hospital. Bluebird Midwifery strives to nurture healthy transitions into parenthood. To this end, natural birth is encouraged, though not required. In addition, Catherine provides extensive postpartum care in your home hoping to avert any breastfeeding issues and to guide you through the initial and sometimes challenging entry into parenthood. At this time, Bluebird is accepting insurance as payment for clinical care from GHI PPO, Cigna,  HIP, and BCBS PPO & EPO. Please call your insurance company to clarify benefits. There may be other fees involved for non-clinical care by the midwife.

Clementine Midwifery
Stacey Rees & Abby Howe-Heyman
info@clementinemidwifery.com
www.clementinemidwifery.com
514 9th Street (at 8th Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11215 (Park Slope)
646.519.7209
Deliver at LICH
We believe birth is normal, joyful, and powerful, unhurried prenatal visits at home or our Brooklyn Heights
office, births at lich Birth Center. Cigna, Empire bc /bs (ppo), ghi (ppo/cbp). Other insurances accepted with out-of-network benefits.

Melanie Comer
Bellevue

Midwifery of Manhattan
http://midwiferyofmanhattan.com
330 West 58th St
Suite 505
NY, NY 10019
212-957-3006
We are delighted to attend births at Roosevelt Hospital's Birth Center as well as it's newly renovated Labor and Delivery unit. While providing true midwifery care in a home-like environment, with all medical back-up and technology in close proximity.  Well-woman gynecological care •  Pap smears •Family planning • Pregnancy confirmation • Prenatal care • Labor and delivery • Lab tests on site • Referral to specialty services

Nurse-Midwifery Associates of Brooklyn- Joanne Middleton, CNM, PhD Janette O'Sullivan, CNM, MS
http://www.midwivesofbrooklyn.com/

Midwives @ Remedy 79 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11201 (Cobble Hill)
(at Hicks Street, one block from LICH)
(718) 486-7374
AND
238 Williamsburg Street East (formerly Rodney)
Brooklyn, NY 11211 (Williamsburg)
(Between Marcy and Lee Avenues)
(718) 486-7374

We are affiliated with the Long Island College Hospital and Maimonides Medical Center.  Ask us about the Long Island College Hospital's private birthing rooms and Jacuzzi® tubs forcomfort and relaxation during labor.  Most insurance accepted. For further information or to schedule an appointment or orientation visit, please call our office manager Sylvia Hamai or Rebekah Azzarelli at (718) 486-7374.

I have attended a number of births with them now and really like working with them. They are LICH based with an office in Williamsburg and another in Cobble Hill. They are real old school midwives with a real commitment to helping women have the births that they want. They are patient and trusting, skillful, and they both have big personalities that make them fun to work with (and very in charge at the hospital). Added bonus is that they have office help from a terrific local homeopath, Rebekah.
-Megan

Yael Silverberg
425 W. 59th Street #4B
NY, NY
212-581-8675
Delivers at St. Lukes and in practice with Dr. Paka.

HOME BASED MIDWIVES

Most homebirth midwives have experience with water birth. They have access to physicians for consultation and referral and hospitals to transfer if necessary. NYS Insurance Law requires insurance companies to reimburse for maternity care by a licensed midwife, which includes birth at home, birth centers or hospitals.  There is no facility fee for homebirth- just the midwife's fee for service.

Tioma Allison
(917-497-3529)

She is a Brooklyn based homebirth midwife who is wonderful to work with. She is very trusting of birth and women's bodies, she works from her heart, and she brings an amazingly calm presence to a birth. She takes late transfers, most insurance, and she is often open to client's requests that are more unusual. I highly recommend her.
-Megan

Joan Bryson, CNM
www.communitymidwifery.com
joaniesb@aol.com
1622 8th Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215
718-788-0595

Joan Bryson helped me and my husband deliver two boys (18 months apart!) at home. She has had her own practice for a long time, so she has taken care of every kind of different situation. I trusted her to bring my boys into this world in the gentlest of ways. I felt overwhelmed being pregnant and facing labor. Joan put me at ease and held my hand every step of the way.
-Alexandra

Kristen Leonard
646-290-8020
kmleonard@mac.com
294 Sixth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Delivers at home. She believes that childbirth is a natural process and that giving a woman full voice and full choice is important- and that this can be effectively done in the home where a woman is comfortable.

Cara Muhlhahn
http://www.nyhomebirth.com/newyork.html
cmuhl2@aol.com
646 E. 11th Street
New York, NY 10009
212-388-1837
Midwife that is an experienced licensed homebirth midwife. If you are pregnant, we offer prenatal care and standard testing, herbal, homeopathic and holistic health care. During your homebirth we take the measures to make sure that you and your baby are safe. We also visit postpartum. You don't have to be pregnant to take advantage of the gentle care of a midwife. Many of us also provide a full scope of well woman gyn care including annual exams, contraceptives, pap smears and menopause health.

She was amazing and very sensitive.  She came to my apartment to do all the prenatal visits.  She is informative, warm and knowledgeable. I can't say enough good things about her. She was featured in Ricki Lake's Documentary "The Business of Being Born".
-Elizabeth

Cara is simply the best. I had both of my babies with her. She is very competent, very compassionate, very funny. A no-nonsense New York midwife. She is very experienced in childbirth but is also very well informed about tons of other things: pediatricians, primary doctors, different cultures, life in general. She always returned my phone calls immediately. Both times, I had amazing, and truly personal experiences with her. She became a real friend and I am so happy that she helped bring my boys into this world and was among the very few people they got to see first. 
-Betty

Miriam Schwarzschild
718-369-0769
mirwife@gmail.com
308 6th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Marcy Perlman Tardio, CNM
718-788-9131
marcenu@verizon.net

Marcy caught my son in May 2007 and I cannot say enough good things about her! She comes to your home for every appointment - even for blood draws, exams, cultures, etc. She is so warm and gentle and I found her to be a joy to be around all through my pregnancy. I completely trust her judgment and she really trusts birth and women's abilities. I highly recommend calling Marcy if you are even considering a homebirth!
-Megan

Comments

[Alexandra]

Joan Bryson helped me and my husband deliver two boys (18 months apart!) at home. She has had her own practice for a long time, so she has taken care of every kind of different situation. I trusted her to bring my boys into this world in the gentlest of ways. I felt overwhelmed being pregnant and facing labor. Joan put me at ease and held my hand every step of the way.

[Alexandra]

Joan Bryson helped me and my husband deliver two boys (18 months apart!) at home. She has had her own practice for a long time, so she has taken care of every kind of different situation. I trusted her to bring my boys into this world in the gentlest of ways. I felt overwhelmed being pregnant and facing labor. Joan put me at ease and held my hand every step of the way.

[Johanna Andino]

Hi,

I would like to refer [my] midwives to your referral list of midwives. They deliver at St. Lukes Roosevelt Birth Center (currently the only one in Manhattan). Both, Barbara & Elizabeth are wonderful! They delivered our son two & 1/2 yrs ago and I currently see them now, they will soon deliver our new baby due in May. They have a beautiful office space in the Union Sq. area on fifth avenue. They are very prompt with appointments and extremely attentive.

C.B.S. Midwifery, Inc.
Barbara Sellers & Elizabeth Boyce
103 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Fl.
(at 18th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Ph: 212-366-4699
email : nyccnms@.att.net

Thanks!

[Megan Davidson]

Marcy caught my son Clay in May 2007 and I cannot say enough good things about her! She comes to your home for every appointment - even for blood draws, exams, cultures, etc. She is so warm and gentle and I found her to be a joy to be around all through my pregnancy. I completely trust her judgment and she really trusts birth and women's abilities. I highly recommend calling Marcy if you are even considering a homebirth!

[Betty]

Cara is simply the best. I had both of my babies with her. She is very competent, very compassionate, very funny. A no-nonsense New York midwife. She is very experienced in childbirth but is also very well informed about tons of other things: pediatricians, primary doctors, different cultures, life in general. She always returned my phone calls immediately. Both times, I had amazing, and truly personal experiences with her. She became a real friend and I am so happy that she helped bring my boys into this world and was among the very few people they got to see first.