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Midwives

Alexandria

 

Birthcare & Women’s Health
Phone: (703) 549-5070
Address: 1501 King Street, Alexandria, VA 22314

BirthCare is a practice of five Certified Nurse-Midwives specializing in personalized gynecologic care and out-of-hospital births. Founded as a home birth service in 1987, BirthCare offers our clients a choice: Home Birth or birth at our Accredited Birth Center.

Charlottesville

Homebirth Midwives

Mountain View Midwives
Brynne Potter, CPM and Deren Bader, CPM, DrPH

Address: 1208 Bland Circle, Charlottesville, VA 22901
Phone: (434) 295-8326
Email: info@mountainviewmidwives.com
Web Address: www.mountainviewmidwives.com

Home birth midwifery services by two Certfied Professional Midwives serving the greater Charlottesville area.

 

Debbie Meslar-Little, NP/CNM & Marla Robbins, CNM
Address: 313 Second Street SE, Ste 209, Charlottesville
Phone: (434) 293-5574

Hospital Midwives

Donna Vinal CNM, PhD
Address: 400 Locust Ave., Charlottesville
Phone: (434) 293-9800

Harrisonburg

Essence of Motherhood Midwifery Services
Kristine Lauria,CPM
Phone: (540)-933-6934

Trinlie Wood, CPM (Madison)
Phone: (540) 923-4015

Loudoun

Birth By Design
Peggy Franklin, CPM
Phone: 1-888-770-0243
Email: peggy@birthbydesign.org
Web Site: www.birthbydesign.org

Peggy Franklin RN,ND,CPM has many years of experience in natural health and birth. Peggy provides complete maternity care including all the prenatal care, labor, birth, newborn exams and postpartum care through 6 weeks. Free homebirth information classes are also held monthly.

 

Birthcare & Women’s Health
Phone: (703) 549-5070
Address: 1501 King Street, Alexandria, VA 22314

BirthCare is a practice of five Certified Nurse-Midwives specializing in personalized gynecologic care and out-of-hospital births. Founded as a home birth service in 1987, BirthCare offers our clients a choice: Home Birth or birth at our Accredited Birth Center.

 

Loudoun Community Midwives
- Pregnancy, Birth and Well-Woman Gynecology
- Births at Loudoun Hospital with Certified Nurse-Midwives
- Committed Labor Support and 24-hour physician availability
Address: 19465 Deerfield Ave. Suite 205, Leesburg, VA 20176
Phone: (703) 726-1300
Fax: (703) 726-9612

Web Site: www.lcmidwives.com

Essence of Motherhood Midwifery Services
Kristine Lauria
Phone: (540) 933-6934

Traditional Midwifery of Northern Virginia
Tammi McKinley, CPM, and Lori Orme, CPM
Phone: (703) 593-4278

Alder Center for Women's Health
Monica Ptaszek, CNM
Address: 2296 Opitz Boulevard, Suite 350, Woodbridge, Virginia 22191
Phone: (703) 680-5327
and
Address: 385 Garrisonville Rd, Stafford, VA 22554
Phone: (540) 659-0928

Lynchburg

Forest Women's Center
Contact: Mary Kwiecinski
Address: 2007 Graves Mill Road, Forest, VA 24551
Phone: (434) 385-8948
Email: mary@forestwomenscenter.com
Web Address: www.forestwomenscenter.com

Forest Women's Center offers a range of OB/ GYN services, including a full scope Midwifery practice. There are three Certified Nurse Midwives; Nancy Prothero, Tamra Thompson and Mary Kwiecinski. Each CNM has their Masters of Science in Nursing degree and is a Licensed Nurse Practitioner . We feature Centering Pregnancy, which is group prenatal care that provides 20 hours of prenatal education, a hospital tour, and a 2 hour introduction to breastfeeding class. Our Midwifery practice also offers traditional pre-natal visits. Our babies are birthed at Virginia Baptist Hospital, a family-centered facility which supports each woman's individual needs.

 

Leslie Payne, CPM
Traditional Midwifery of Lynchburg
Phone: (434) 384-9602

Northern Virginia

Arlington Women’s Center
Karen King, CNM
Address: 1625 N. George Mason Drive, Suite 325, Arlington, VA 20165
Phone: (703) 717-4600
Email: kingkb@earthlink.net
Website: www.arlingtonwomenscenter.com

We are a group of physicians and a certified nurse midwife dedicated to serving the healthcare needs of women in the Northern Virginia and Metropolitan Washington area. We strive to provide you with the finest state-of-the-art individualized care in the area of comprehensive obstetrics and gynecology. We offer hospital birth to clients interested in having a midwife in a hospital setting.

 

Birth By Design
Peggy Franklin, CPM
Phone: 1-888-770-0243
Email: peggy@birthbydesign.org
Web Site: www.birthbydesign.org

Peggy Franklin RN,ND,CPM has many years of experience in natural health and birth. Peggy provides complete maternity care including all the prenatal care, labor, birth, newborn exams and postpartum care through 6 weeks. Free homebirth information classes are also held monthly.

 

Traditional Midwifery of Northern Virginia, PLLC
Lori Orme LM, CPM and Tammi McKinley LM, CPM

Phone: 703.593.4278
Email: midwives@traditionalmidwiferyofnova.com
Web Address: www.traditionalmidwiferyofnova.com

Homebirth midwifery and well-woman care

 

Richmond

Homebirth Midwifery Services
Kim Mosny, CPM

Address:
Chesterfield County, VA, 23832
Phone: (901) 292-4876
Email: kmosny@yahoo.com
Web Address: www.richmondmidwife.com

Delivering MORE birth options to the women & families of Richmond and surrounding communities!! Midwife-attended Home & Water Birth. Comprehensive Midwifery Model Care. We Bring the Birth Center to You! Relocating to the S.W. Richmond VA area in September 2008!

Leslie Fehan, CNM and Nicole Carlson, CNM
The Woman's Center, St. Francis Family Medicine
phone: (804) 423-8462

Margie Rickell, CNM and Kathryn Beaton, CNM
The Midwives at VCU

Roanoke

New Life Birth Center
Karen Winstead

Address: PO Box 21461, Roanoke, VA
Phone: (540) 798-4064
Email: karenwinstead@newlifebirthcenter.net
Web Address: www.newlifebirthcenter.net

As a member of the American Association of Birth Centers, we are establishing a non-profit, faith-based physician/midwife collaborative practice that will provide both birth center and hospital birth services by nurse-midwives in Roanoke, VA. We will serve the women and families of the Roanoke Valley and surrounding communities.

Warrenton

Lori Orme, LM, CPM
Warrenton VA 20186
Phone: (H) 540.341.8193 (M) 703.593.4278

Winchester

Birth By Design
Peggy Franklin, CPM
Phone: 1-888-770-0243
Email: peggy@birthbydesign.org
Web Site: www.birthbydesign.org

Peggy Franklin RN,ND,CPM has many years of experience in natural health and birth. Peggy provides complete maternity care including all the prenatal care, labor, birth, newborn exams and postpartum care through 6 weeks. Free homebirth information classes are also held monthly.

Kristine Lauria,CPM
Phone: (540)-933-6934

Karen Nguyen, CNM Phone: (540)678-1433 

Liz O'Shea, CPM Phone: (301) 371-7429

Shenandoah University's Midwifery Program
Phone: (540) 678-4374

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