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Midwifery Services

At �鶹����AV Langone, our certified midwives guide patients through every stage of their pregnancy journey and also provide routine gynecologic care.

What Do Midwives Do?

Midwives are board-certified healthcare providers who received a graduate degree in midwifery. They provide care through healthy, uncomplicated pregnancies and can provide all standard gynecologic care. They work alongside our obstetrician–gynecologists and maternal–fetal medicine specialists, who provide high-risk pregnancy care and can perform surgeries such as a cesarean birth and hysterectomy.

Pregnancy Care from Midwives

Our midwives provide care before, during, and after pregnancy, including childbirth. Midwives support and believe in the natural, physiologic process of pregnancy, labor and birth. We view pregnancy as a time to get to know yourself and your body better and to be educated and empowered through this incredible journey. Your midwife works with you on your birth plan, helping to define your ideal childbirth experience. For some people this includes minimal intervention in the childbirth process, such as not inducing labor when not medically necessary or providing medical pain management only when desired. We offer wireless fetal monitoring so you can walk around and change positions while in labor. We also aim to make you as comfortable as possible by allowing you to eat as needed and limiting physical exams as much as possible during the process. We also support and are comfortable delivering patients in various positions such as hands and knees, squatting, etc.

Our certified midwives work together to ensure all patients receive the highest level of gynecologic and pregnancy care.

In pregnancy, our certified midwives provide holistic, evidence-based care and aim to make patients as comfortable as possible.

They work alongside our obstetrician–gynecologists and maternal–fetal medicine specialists, who provide high-risk pregnancy care and can perform surgeries such as a cesarean birth and hysterectomy.

Our certified midwives educate and empower women of all ages, from adolescence to those in their post-reproductive years.

Midwives attend births at �鶹����AV Langone’s Tisch Hospital and �鶹����AV Langone Hospital—Brooklyn. They work in tandem with the rest of the labor and delivery team, which includes obstetricians and maternal–fetal medicine specialists, to ensure you have access to the highest level of patient care. We utilize our high-risk providers when complications arise during prenatal care and during labor and birth. If complications arise prenatally, we can continue to care for you in a collaborative manner with the high-risk team but sometimes there are complications that require us to transfer your care entirely. In the labor setting, our physician colleagues are immediately available in the case where you may need a cesarean section or operative vaginal delivery (vacuum or forceps).

Gynecologic Care from Midwives

Midwives also provide all routine gynecologic care for women of all ages, from adolescence to those in their postreproductive years. This includes well visits, pelvic exams, and placement of long-acting reversible contraceptives such as intrauterine devices. Midwives also diagnose and treat gynecologic conditions, provide preventive care and screenings for cancer and sexually transmitted infections.