About Integrative Midwifery

Compassionate prenatal care - Chloe, the midwife from Integrative Midwifery, attends to a woman lying on a bed, fostering a supportive environment.

Chloe

Chloe grew up in the rolling hills of rural County Down, N’ern Ireland, with her feet in the creeks, legs in the brambles and head in the clouds. She relocated to New York City in 2007, pregnant and knee-deep in an unfamiliar healthcare system. After immersing herself in literature in preparation for the birth of her first baby in the spring of 2008, she found herself in a place she never wanted to leave. By the winter of 2009, this inextinguishable passion led her to attend a DONA-certified birth doula training. The way in which a doula can nourish people as they transform into parents deeply resonated with her…and then the proverbial birth ball started rolling! During her ten years of practice as a doula and five years of practice as a midwife’s assistant for BK Midwifery, Chloe developed a profound appreciation of birth. This appreciation/respect was informed by the dual influence of witnessing empowered families navigating their birth options and a community of skilled homebirth midwives delivering individualized care to their clients. Being a doula before becoming a midwife was a defining characteristic of Chloe’s midwifery education. It provided the opportunity to witness birth through the lens of new parents before carrying the burden of clinical responsibility.

In a tranquil setting, Chloe, the midwife from Integrative Midwifery, provides prenatal care to a woman resting on a couch.

As a midwife’s assistant, Chloe saw hundreds of uninterrupted physiologic homebirths before earning her midwifery license. This understanding of birth allowed her to grasp the many variations of “normal” that a walk through the birth labyrinth can take - and also what it looks like when a detour off a safe pathway occurs. It was the closest to an apprenticeship model of midwifery education as possible in New York State. Clinical training was the finishing touch to Chloe’s midwifery education. She graduated from SUNY Downstate with a Master of Science Degree in Midwifery with honors in 2019. In the fall of the same year, she was awarded a fellowship at the Brooklyn Birthing Center, where she honed her skills as a provider of midwifery care in an out-of-hospital setting. She launched her first homebirth practice, Wildroot Midwifery, in collaboration with Sorayya Kassamali Rickicki in February 2020, and moved on to practice independently as Integrative Midwifery NYC in October 2023.

  • Chloe is endlessly curious about the post-birth adjustment to parenthood. The midwifery care she provides in the postpartum period is informed by extensive lactation training and experience, as well as a vested interest in the delicate balancing act of mental health in the perinatal period. Chloe is a qualified Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC) and has provided hundreds of hours of lactation support to clients in their homes. Chloe has also completed Seleni Institute's Maternal Mental Health Intensive training.

  • When not practicing midwifery, you might find Chloe on her front stoop crooning to the ukulele, trampolining with her two wild children, or with mermaids at the spa in Coney Island. She lives in Kensington, Brooklyn with her husband and two sons, who were born at home on the exact same day, four years apart.