https://beaconcommunitymidwifery.com/home daily 1.0 2025-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026c71446f3d555eeab34d2/1614050896818-MK4I96TIAHUNBX2PG7SS/Prenatal.jpg Home hand-drawn armchair icon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026c71446f3d555eeab34d2/1614050958208-HYTFOT2XDX85G3KOX85X/boob.jpg Home hand-drawn simplified needles in back acupuncture icon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026c71446f3d555eeab34d2/1614052301297-XGZ07PTTFN9ETIPYR5AW/Postpartum.jpg Home hand-drawn empty pill bottle icon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026c71446f3d555eeab34d2/1614089445888-JXRWFEMPRG7J2F9I2I8X/Kneeling.jpg Home Labor and Birth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026c71446f3d555eeab34d2/1614051469669-FKQNPQXWSLIQY492BQXT/35499a8bcb71c3cfa07f5f6748fb7583.jpg Home GYN Care https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026c71446f3d555eeab34d2/fb81a22a-2998-4c5e-8843-20d12d2c5370/2CBRD0J.jpg Home IUI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026c71446f3d555eeab34d2/1614050332674-02DSKUXOFABYJTJRLDM7/8X2A6077.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026c71446f3d555eeab34d2/1614050314531-2P3SUVOHUWETYYKNNJU2/8CFC1175-4956-4F97-AE25-70FA7D62E23B.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026c71446f3d555eeab34d2/1614050351431-RUH7OR9N02DBPEG6RN9Z/IMG_5317.jpeg Home https://beaconcommunitymidwifery.com/about daily 0.75 2025-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026c71446f3d555eeab34d2/1613155081538-UTPGBFPXQEP1RUPTRG6J/image1.jpg About - Meet your midwife. Nicole is a certified nurse midwife and women’s health nurse practitioner. She graduated from the Yale School of Nursing after working in policy and advocacy at Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), where she was inspired to start her own clinical career. Throughout her clinical and professional experiences, Nicole has been fortunate to practice in home, birth center, and hospital settings. She is passionate about lactation support and is a Certified Lactation Counselor. Nicole is honored to be part of the long midwifery tradition of supporting clients with compassion, respect, and personalized care. She believes birth can be transformational. In addition to her clinical credentials, Nicole holds an MA in international affairs from the New School and a BA in human rights and political studies from Bard College. She is the mother of two strong and spirited girls. Her youngest daughter was born at her home in Beacon, NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026c71446f3d555eeab34d2/1613155417523-2JU44Y18HUUYL6KZS7A7/8CFC1175-4956-4F97-AE25-70FA7D62E23B.jpeg About - Community Birth For community birth to truly serve families it needs to be just that—a community. With that as a guiding principle, Nicole works in collaboration with midwives Sarah Colbath, LM and Grace Rice, LM. While building this practice and striving to serve more families of the Hudson Valley, Nicole sought out trusted colleagues who had the same overlapping goals, to support this community through holistic, respectful, and client-centered care at home while working sustainably for our own families and communities. With these partners, clients have access to full-spectrum care with an intimate team that will know you and your family. Partnering means sustainable midwifery practices, so we can serve the Hudson Valley for years to come. It means client access to passionate, well-rested, fully present, wholly supported midwives at all times. It means more than one critical thinker with eyes on every clinical issue that comes up. It means community care. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026c71446f3d555eeab34d2/1633180604113-Z2APHGDHCX2BBQOFS4OC/Prenatal.png About Birth Equity and Reparations Our healthcare system is racist. For many people in the United States safe, high quality, prenatal and birth care is not accessible. In addition to taking all insurance plans, including Medicaid and state funded plans, Beacon Community Midwifery also uses a portion of our reimbursements to fund homebirth scholarships to help make homebirth more accessible to all. Additionally, we contribute to scholarship funds for black midwives to increase representation in the midwifery field. Every family deserves to have supportive midwifery care from a midwife in their own community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026c71446f3d555eeab34d2/1613156058714-JHQBW3C65MRVENP6EIJS/4D2800CE-37A5-4AAA-BF47-D42459A490C8.jpeg About - Full spectrum care. With their combined interests and expertise, Nicole, Grace, and Sarah strive to provide care throughout the life span. Clients can seek preconception health advice, fertility support including in-home IUI (intrauterine insemination), prenatal care and homebirth, postpartum and lactation support, contraception, abortion care, menopause care and well care from Beacon Community Midwifery. All of these services benefit from being community and relationship-based. In addition, the birth community throughout the Hudson Valley has provided invaluable resource to further serve our clients. We have built an extensive referral network for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum support with their help and provide a number of their services as part of our package. The standard American obstetric model fails families during the postpartum period and we aim to correct that through collaboration. We strive for a wrap-around care model, meaning your support does not end with the end of your pregnancy. It truly takes a village to raise our families and so we strive to model that in our own practice and in how we serve the Hudson Valley. 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She is passionate about patient-centered care that celebrates the body’s intuitive wisdom and is grounded in evidence-based science. She brings the midwifery model beyond birth work and specializes in supportive, respectful, and healing abortion care. Her practice is informed by theories of anti-racism, body positivity, and harm reduction. She has a particular interest in pelvic floor health, queer reproductive healthcare, and global medicine. She is based in New Haven, CT and loves gardening, yoga, and antiquing! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026c71446f3d555eeab34d2/e1e2dd6e-c1f4-4bbe-91c9-089e35cfb490/Amanda_headshot.jpg Team BIRTH ASSISTANT Amanda Winters Amanda has been a registered nurse & Doula for more than 13 years serving Hudson Valley families at more than 1500 births. Her experience as a homebirth and hospital trained nurse, combined with being a childbirth educator, and doula, gives her special insight with assisting local families to have the best experience. Amanda is a Hypnobabies trained childbirth educator and is passionate to work with families who want to use hypnosis for a more comfortable birth experience and empower the birth partners to use tools to be an active participant in birth. Amanda’s philosophy is a combination of "East meets West". She believes in utilizing both medicinal and holistic modalities to balance experiences. She loves to “cherry-pick” benefits from both holistic and medicinal routes, providing a 3-dimensional view on birth her clients. Amanda is additionally a student midwife as she has been accepted into Stony Brook Midwifery Program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026c71446f3d555eeab34d2/0985cb75-0e32-4ad5-affb-2e7718fd9f43/DSC01829.jpeg Team - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://beaconcommunitymidwifery.com/faqs daily 0.75 2025-05-30 https://beaconcommunitymidwifery.com/contact daily 0.75 2024-07-22