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Carrie Hanson CNM
NorthShore Assoc for OB/GynWilmette, ILArea Served: Chicago & SuburbsCertified Nurse Midwife providing prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum care, breastfeeding support, gynecological care across the lifespan. Focus on patient education and advocacy. Unique practice helping women experience birth naturally. Supportive collaborating physicians and hospital environment. Offices in Wilmette and Glenview. VBAC offered.
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Gaye Koconis CNM
North Shore Assoc in Gyn/OBWilmette, ILArea Served: Chicago & SuburbsWorked with childbearing women in and around the Chicago area since 1996 and has been a Certified Nurse Midwife since 2002. Her practice is strongly committed to empowering, supporting and educating women during pregnancy and childbirth. Evanston North Shore Hospital. Offices in Wilmette and Glenview. VBAC offered.
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Midwest Center for Women’s Healthcare
Evanston, ILArea Served: Chicago & SuburbsMaster’s prepared Certified Nurse Midwife. Preconception & prenatal care with deliveries at Evanston Hospital. Full scope gynecological care with special interest in contraception, counseling, adolescent healthcare and midwife menopause care. Offices in Evanston & Glenview. Supportive collaborating physicians.
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Northwestern Medical Group
Chicago, ILArea Served: Chicago & SuburbsMidwives at Northwestern Memorial Hospital
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PCC Community Wellness Center & Free Standing Birth Center at PCC
Berwyn, ILArea Served: Chicago & Suburbs, Midwest RegionPCC’s Certified Nurse-Midwives offer full-scope midwifery care, including prenatal, postpartum, family planning, and obstetrical/gynecological services. Midwives attend births at West Suburban Medical Center and PCC’s free-standing birth center, the Birth Center at PCC. Waterbirths available. VBAC available at West Suburban.
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Mary Rigoni CNM
North Shore Assoc in Gyn/OBWilmette, ILArea Served: Chicago & SuburbsCertified Nurse Midwife providing prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum care, breastfeeding support, gynecological care across the lifespan. Focus on patient education and advocacy. Unique practice helping women experience birth naturally. Supportive collaborating physicians and hospital environment. Offices in Evanston and Glenview. VBAC offered.
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Sarah Sumagin CNM
North Shore Assoc for OB/GynWilmette, ILArea Served: Chicago & SuburbsCertified Nurse Midwife providing prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum care, breastfeeding support, gynecological care across the lifespan. Focus on patient education and advocacy. Unique practice helping women experience birth naturally. Supportive collaborating physicians and hospital environment. Offices in Wilmette and Glenview. VBAC offered.
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West Suburban Midwife Associates
Gayle Riedmann CNM
Claire Michelsen CNM
Tara Dethmers CNM
Melissa Furlete-Koski CNM
Julie Brown CNMOak Park, ILArea Served: Chicago & SuburbsUnique CNM-owned private practice. Non-intervention birth, water birth, VBAC, VBA2C and caring support in the Alternative Birth Center of West Suburban Hospital in Oak Park. Well-woman gynecology, annual exams and pap smears, contraception and pre-conception planning. In-network for most PPOs, Chicago health System HMO, discounts for self pay.
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Barbara Zimmerman Minnich CNM
North Shore Assoc for OB/GynWilmette, ILArea Served: Chicago & SuburbsCertified Nurse Midwife providing prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum care, breastfeeding support, gynecological care across the lifespan. Focus on patient education and advocacy. Unique practice helping women experience birth naturally. Supportive collaborating physicians and hospital environment. Offices in Wilmette and Glenview. VBAC offered.
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Midwives - Hospital Based
"A midwife's work means something: It prepares the woman to go through childbirth in a way that's transformative and empowering. The empowerment and self respect she learns in labor is passed on to the child in a loving relationship."
- Ina May Gaskin CPM
Certified Nurse Midwives - CNM's are licensed and regulated under their nursing license. They are the are primary care for low risk pregnant mothers. They can practice in hospitals, birth centers, or attend home births. In the US they are one of the fastest growing professions. In every other country, with socialized medicine, midwives attend the majority of births.
Not all midwives are non-intervention oriented. You must interview and know what kinds of questions to ask to evaluate if they are a good match for you. BirthLink can help with this process please call us for referrals or to consider a birth options consultation.
See alphabetical listings for Illinois certified nurse midwives below. Please contact the practitioner directly to schedule an appointment or if you have any questions. Be sure to let them know BirthLink sent you!
If you can't find a practitioner near you please contact us.
Practitioner Spotlight
Offering low-intervention birthing with the personal care of experienced, supportive midwives and staff, the Alternative Birthing Center at West Suburban Medical Center provides nitrous oxide as a pain relief option; free-mobility labor; spacious home-like rooms; water tubs for labor and birth; along with high quality care for you and your baby. We offer many unique, progressive pregnancy-related classes by leading experts.
Two midwife practices offer prenatal and birth services at the ABC: PCC South Family Family Health Center & West Suburban Midwife Associates. Contact them directly for a free interview.