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Congratulations on your new pregnancy!

Gentle Spirit Homebirth Midwifery Service is a homebirth practice that offers you and your family a great sense of empowerment in all aspects of care.

We embrace and respect the sacred journey of pregnancy, labor and birth from a wholesome perspective.

Our primary focus is to provide complete, enriched care in a safe and nurturing environment.

You and your family's unique physical, emotional, spiritual and cultural needs are integrated into your labor and birth process.

Gentle Spirit Homebirth Midwifery Service provides a full scope of services for women's health care. We offer in depth counseling in:

• Family planning
• Contraception
• Nutrition
• Exercise
• Childbirth Education
• Water Labor and Birth
• Doula Services
• Homeopathic / Herbal Remedies

and other alternative health options.

Complete in-home prenatal care is available which includes a comprehensive medical history, physical exam, prenatal laboratory screening tests and and childbirth education.  For more information regarding childcare education, please visit www.StorkAndCradle.com.

You are intimately cared for during labor, birth and the postpartum period. Labor can take place in any comfortable area of your home or in our portable pool.  For more information on water labor and birth, please visit www.BirthBalance.com.  In addition, your baby will also receive a complete newborn exam during the immediate postpartum period. Breastfeeding assistance for new mothers is also available.

Gentle Spirit is certified to offer educational classes, seminars and workshops on a variety of topics including but not limited to adult children and infant CPR, first aid, breastfeeding, newborn care and Child Birth Education.

Gentle Spirit also offers training in female anatomy, physiology, family planning, and sexually transmitted diseases at Nursing, Midwifery and Physician Assistant Educational Institutes.

For more information on our educational training services, please visit our educational services page. You may also contact us at (212) 696-7996 or feel free to send us an e-mail.