Jewish Birth Professionals Network
The birth professionals in this directory have an expressed interest in working with Jewish clients in ways that are particularly relevant to their birth process. While JBN is based in the Boston area, the Jewish Birth Professionals Network extends nationally and, maybe eventually internationally.
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Boston area
Naomi Bar-Yam, ACSW ICCE Ph.D.
Mothers' Milk Bank of New England
naomi@milkbankne.org
www.milkbankne.org
617-527-6263
Social worker, Executive Director, MMBNE
Area of Service: New England
MMBNE receives milk from mothers who have more than their babies need, screens and pasteurizes milk and dispenses it to babies whose mothers do not have full supply for them. We primarily dispense to premature and sick babies, but we also work with mothers who cannot provide fully for their babies for other medical reasons.
Mothers' Milk Bank of New England
naomi@milkbankne.org
www.milkbankne.org
617-527-6263
Social worker, Executive Director, MMBNE
Area of Service: New England
MMBNE receives milk from mothers who have more than their babies need, screens and pasteurizes milk and dispenses it to babies whose mothers do not have full supply for them. We primarily dispense to premature and sick babies, but we also work with mothers who cannot provide fully for their babies for other medical reasons.
Lisa Geiger, DC
Village Family Chiropractic
126 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA
vfchiro@gmail.com
www.villagechiro.com
617-566-2001
Chiropractor
Area of Service: Brookline, Boston, Massachusetts
Our patients choose our office because they want a natural approach to better health. We choose to work with all ages, beginning with newborns, because we believe wellness is for everyone, not just those capable of asking for it. Read more.
Village Family Chiropractic
126 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA
vfchiro@gmail.com
www.villagechiro.com
617-566-2001
Chiropractor
Area of Service: Brookline, Boston, Massachusetts
Our patients choose our office because they want a natural approach to better health. We choose to work with all ages, beginning with newborns, because we believe wellness is for everyone, not just those capable of asking for it. Read more.
Shirli Holtzman, CD(DONA), HBCE
Grow to Birth
67 Sacramento st., Cambridge MA 02138
shirli_hol@yahoo.com
www.growtobirth.com
617-335-0962
Birth doula, HypnoBirthing practitioner
Area of Service: Boston area
Birth Doula services and HypnoBirthing childbirth classes.
Grow to Birth
67 Sacramento st., Cambridge MA 02138
shirli_hol@yahoo.com
www.growtobirth.com
617-335-0962
Birth doula, HypnoBirthing practitioner
Area of Service: Boston area
Birth Doula services and HypnoBirthing childbirth classes.
Audra Karp, CPM
Northeast Community Midwifery
49 Firth Rd, Roslindale, MA 02131
audrakarp@gmail.com
www.northeastmidwifery.com
617-522-8383
Midwife
Area of Service: Boston area within 495
Comprehensive homebirth midwifery care with a Certified Professional Midwife including full prenatal care, labor and birth attendance, and postpartum visits. Other services provided include preconception counsultations, nutritional counseling, well-woman care as well as fertility counseling and alternative insemination.
Northeast Community Midwifery
49 Firth Rd, Roslindale, MA 02131
audrakarp@gmail.com
www.northeastmidwifery.com
617-522-8383
Midwife
Area of Service: Boston area within 495
Comprehensive homebirth midwifery care with a Certified Professional Midwife including full prenatal care, labor and birth attendance, and postpartum visits. Other services provided include preconception counsultations, nutritional counseling, well-woman care as well as fertility counseling and alternative insemination.
Genevieve Levin, ICFNHA
ReMarkable Blackbird
26 Shore Rd Gray ME 04039
nev@remarkableblackbird.com
www.remarkableblackbird.com
207-232-9014
Henna / bellycasting artist
Area of Service: New England
ReMarkable Blackbird recently featured in the NY Times and Style Me Pretty can accommodate any size event from a large corporate affair to a small party in your home. We are located in Gray Maine, and travel to events throughout New England. Read more.
ReMarkable Blackbird
26 Shore Rd Gray ME 04039
nev@remarkableblackbird.com
www.remarkableblackbird.com
207-232-9014
Henna / bellycasting artist
Area of Service: New England
ReMarkable Blackbird recently featured in the NY Times and Style Me Pretty can accommodate any size event from a large corporate affair to a small party in your home. We are located in Gray Maine, and travel to events throughout New England. Read more.
Rebecca Taylor, CPM, CD (DONA)
Cape Cod Homebirth
55 Mill Hill rd, Wellfleet MA 02667
beautifulbirth4u@yahoo.com
http://www.capecodhomebirth.com/
812.606.7887
Birth doula, Midwife
Area of Service: Cape Cod and Eastern MA
I provide both skilled Homebirth services and labor and birth support for hospital births. I support VBAC, water birth and all kinds of families.
Cape Cod Homebirth
55 Mill Hill rd, Wellfleet MA 02667
beautifulbirth4u@yahoo.com
http://www.capecodhomebirth.com/
812.606.7887
Birth doula, Midwife
Area of Service: Cape Cod and Eastern MA
I provide both skilled Homebirth services and labor and birth support for hospital births. I support VBAC, water birth and all kinds of families.
Beyond Boston
Steven J. Adashek, MD
Steven J. Adashek, MD PA
1205 York Road, Suite 12, Lutherville, MD 21093
mohel18@comcast.net
410-561-9812
Mohel / et, Ob/gyn
Area of Service: Baltimore, Washington, Northern Virginia
Physician and Mohel
Steven J. Adashek, MD PA
1205 York Road, Suite 12, Lutherville, MD 21093
mohel18@comcast.net
410-561-9812
Mohel / et, Ob/gyn
Area of Service: Baltimore, Washington, Northern Virginia
Physician and Mohel
Cantor David M Landau, Mohel
Chicago Area
themohel@gmail.com
www.themohel.com
Mohel / et
Area of Service: Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, mostly. Other states sometimes possible.
I am a full-time Mohel. I believe that my role is to help you have the most joyful, meaningful time, and to help your son have the most amazingly easy time. Parents, grandparents and guests say "Wow! This is the quietest baby ever!" Doctors appreciate the surgical technique. Nurses appreciate the sterile technique. Everyone appreciates the love and joy.
Chicago Area
themohel@gmail.com
www.themohel.com
Mohel / et
Area of Service: Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, mostly. Other states sometimes possible.
I am a full-time Mohel. I believe that my role is to help you have the most joyful, meaningful time, and to help your son have the most amazingly easy time. Parents, grandparents and guests say "Wow! This is the quietest baby ever!" Doctors appreciate the surgical technique. Nurses appreciate the sterile technique. Everyone appreciates the love and joy.
Lucy Eisenstein Waldman, CNM, Mohel
Birth to Bris
lucy@birthtobris.com
www.birthtobris.com
718.757.0083
Midwife, Mohel / et, Nurse
Area of Service: all NY/NJ
As a Liberal Jew and a practicing Nurse Midwife I am honored to be Mohel at Brisim of all Jewish families, including Gay and Lesbian families as well as Interfaith families raising Jewish children. I use several techniques to increase the comfort of the baby boy including local anesthesia, a sucrose solution in sweet wine, and a mogen clamp, known as the fastest. Read more.
Birth to Bris
lucy@birthtobris.com
www.birthtobris.com
718.757.0083
Midwife, Mohel / et, Nurse
Area of Service: all NY/NJ
As a Liberal Jew and a practicing Nurse Midwife I am honored to be Mohel at Brisim of all Jewish families, including Gay and Lesbian families as well as Interfaith families raising Jewish children. I use several techniques to increase the comfort of the baby boy including local anesthesia, a sucrose solution in sweet wine, and a mogen clamp, known as the fastest. Read more.
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