Journey To Birth Midwifery

Specialties

Midwives Cathy Gallagher and Susan Schmidt offer homebirth midwifery services to families in Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, and Orange counties in NY as well as parts of CT and NJ. Our birth package includes complete holistic prenatal office visits, labor and birth in the comfort of your own home, and postpartum visits at day 1, 2, week 2, week 6, and 3 months. We bring the birth center to you! Families in our practice can have water births, are never separated from their babies, and all members of the family are encouraged to participate as much as is comfortable for you and them. Prenatal visits are 1 hour long which gives plenty of time for you to ask questions, receive some education about your pregnancy, give holistic referrals for any discomforts you might be experiencing, and of course all the fun things like listening to your baby, measuring, feeling your baby’s position etc. Come see what home birth is all about!

Meet the Business Owner

Cathy Gallagher, Susan Schmidt S.

Business Owner

Cathy’s journey in midwifery is rich and experienced, having «midwifed» over one thousand births, in a variety of settings, hospital, birth centers and home. In her practice of well woman Gyn and family planning, Cathy’s motto is «listen to women». Her journey to birth — brings her beliefs and experience to you and the women and homebirth families she proudly serves.

Susan has practiced full scope midwifery since 1997. Her specialties include young women’s first gyn exams, holistic perimenopausal and menopausal counseling and treatments and woman centered prenatal care, labor and birth. She has been a staunch advocate for women’s rights to labor as they choose. In her over 1,000 births, she has happily helped many women and their families realize safe and gratifying birth experiences. At this juncture in both life and career, Susan is elated to continue on her life’s journey as she returns to home birth, now as a midwife, just as she had dreamed of several years ago.