A Birth Center on Long Island, Led by Midwives
Home Birth | Birth Center | Planned Hospital Birth
Gentle midwifery care, from the same trusted team, wherever you choose to give birth.
Holistic Maternity Care
THREE Birth Settings, One Team
Your birth. Your choices. A team that knows you.
At Birthing Center Long Island, we believe exceptional maternity care begins with listening to you. Our midwifery team offers planned birth at home, in our beautiful birth center, or at our affiliated hospital, with thoughtful guidance to help you choose the setting that best fits you and your pregnancy. Wherever you choose to welcome your baby, our goal is the same: a safe, gentle, empowering birth experience centered around you.
Birth at Home
For healthy, low-risk women, home birth offers the comfort and privacy of giving birth in your own space, surrounded by the people you choose. Our midwives bring experienced, attentive care to you supporting physiologic birth while continuously assessing the wellbeing of both mother and baby.
Welcome your baby in the familiarity and privacy of home, with skilled midwifery care beside you. We come prepared with the equipment and expertise needed for birth while creating space for an intimate, peaceful experience centered around you and your family.
Birth Center Birth
Our accredited birth center is a healthcare facility created specifically to protect and support physiologic birth. Spacious private birth suites feature large birthing pools, private bathrooms and showers, waterproof monitoring, and plenty of room to move, walk, and labor in the positions that feel right for you. Birthing stools, peanut balls, and upright positioning encourage movement and instinctive birth, while comprehensive clinical and safety equipment is readily available when needed.
Planned Hospital Birth
For women who prefer or need a hospital setting, our midwives bring the same personalized, physiologic approach to your hospital birth. We support movement, upright positioning, birthing stools, and individualized birth preferences while providing care within the resources and support of our affiliated hospital.
Care Beyond the Birth
Our care continues after the baby arrives. We provide a postpartum home visit, ongoing check-ins for both mother and baby, and 24/7 availability for urgent concerns—so support is always within reach during those important first days and weeks.
Why Families Choose a Birth Center
For healthy women with normal pregnancies, an accredited birth center offers a safe, evidence-based option for maternity care. The model rests on a straightforward premise: for most healthy women, labor and birth are normal physiologic processes, and there is value in protecting them as such. Care is designed to allow birth to remain natural, intuitive, and mother-led, while continuously assessing the well-being of mother and baby and recognizing when additional medical care is needed.
Do We Accept Insurance?
Yes. We work with many insurance plans, including Medicaid, and our team can help families understand coverage and eligibility.
Your Birth. Your Needs. The Right Setting.
Whether that means home, birth center, or hospital, our goal is thoughtful, individualized maternity care that respects physiologic birth while keeping the safety and wellbeing of mother and baby at the center of every decision.
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BIRTH CAN BE EXTRAORDINARY. BEGIN YOUR JOURNEy to a gentle, empowering experience.
Expert midwives by your side – supporting you, trusting you, and helping you have a birth that is transformative.
Discover the Calm of Our Long Island Birthing Center
Care That Honors Your Choices
Care at our Long Island birthing center is individualized and collaborative. Evidence based prenatal testing and screenings are offered, with clear explanations so clients can decide what feels right for them.
Our approach prioritizes education, trust, and continuity of care so you feel confident and supported throughout pregnancy.
Freedom to Labor and Birth Your Way
At Birthing Center Long Island, families are encouraged to labor and give birth in positions that feel natural and intuitive. Upright positions, hands and knees, squatting, kneeling, and free movement are commonly chosen. Clients are encouraged to eat and drink during labor as desired. IV fluids are available, though not recommended routinely, and reserved for occasions it is clinically beneficial.
Labor may take place in the shower or in the birthing pool. Some families choose to give birth in water, with waterproof monitoring used intermittently according to evidence-based midwifery practice. The physiologic process of birth is respected, with interventions used thoughtfully and only when appropriate. Immediately after birth, uninterrupted skin to skin contact is encouraged, and delayed cord clamping is supported. Families who choose to breastfeed receive hands on support during the early postpartum period.
Emergency and Newborn Training
Our midwives are trained in obstetric emergencies and newborn resuscitation, with established safety protocols, emergency medications, and resuscitation equipment readily available. Medical consultation is accessible when needed, and our hospital affiliation provides a clear pathway for transfer and a higher level of care when appropriate.
Private Birth Suites & Water Birth
Our spacious, private birth suites are designed for movement, comfort, and physiologic birth, with large birthing pools for water birth, private bathrooms and showers, waterproof monitoring, and plenty of room to walk, move, and labor in the position of choice.
WHAT WE OFFER
Our Birthing Services
Prenatal Care
Prenatal visits are a time to build connection and trust. During these visits, we assess both mother and baby while getting to know your preferences, goals, and birth vision. Routine care includes bloodwork, genetic screening, if desired, and ultrasound when indicated.
Prenatal appointments are scheduled monthly until 28 weeks, every two to three weeks until 36 weeks, and weekly until birth. Continuity of midwifery care enables that by the time labor begins our team knows you and your preferences – so the care you receive is personal, familiar, and truly centered around you.
Labor & Birth
Labor is supported with mobility, eating and drinking as desired, and following the positions that feel natural to your body. Birth can happen standing, squatting, on hands and knees, on a birth stool, in the water- or wherever you feel most comfortable. Our midwives stay close, carefully monitoring mother and baby while protecting the space for labor to unfold physiologically and with minimal unnecessary intervention.
Postpartum Care
The hours after birth are protected for rest, bonding, skin to skin, and feeding your baby. Our midwives remain close, monitoring mother and baby, supporting breastfeeding, providing a complete newborn assessment, and the helping the transition home feel comfortable and supported. Follow up continues with a postpartum home visit and ongoing check ins the days and weeks ahead.
Well-Woman Care
In addition to maternity care, we offer well-woman services including annual exams, contraception counseling, and reproductive health care. Visits respectful and grounded in holistic wellness.
Water Birth
Midwifery
Doula
Childbirth Education
Featured Coverage
In the News
Birthing Center Long Island in the Five Towns news, plus articles and podcast interviews with our co-founders.
In the Press
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Community Packs In at Five Towns Open House for New Birthing Center (opens in a new tab)
Our Five Towns neighbors came out to tour the new birthing center and hear from our co-founders, doulas and parents who shared their experiences.
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A First-Ever Collaboration Brings NYS DOH-Approved Birthing Centers to Brooklyn and the Five Towns (opens in a new tab)
Why the Five Towns now has a New York State approved, midwife-led birthing center, and the partnership that made it happen.
Meet Our Co-Founders
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Meet Judy Ribner, DNP, CNM (opens in a new tab)
Get to know our co-founder: her doctorate from NYU, her hospital and research experience, and her focus on community-based birth.
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Meet Dr. Joshua U. Klein, MD, FACOG (opens in a new tab)
Why a Harvard-trained reproductive endocrinologist chose to help build midwife-led birthing centers for our community.
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About Extend Fertility (opens in a new tab)
Dr. Klein also leads clinical care at Extend Fertility as co-founder and Chief Clinical Officer, with egg freezing and IVF services.
Articles by Judy Ribner, DNP, CNM
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The Wisdom to Be Invisible (opens in a new tab)
A midwife’s reflection on presence, respect and knowing when to step forward during a home birth.
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The Birth of Sacred Love (opens in a new tab)
On the love that forms in the first seconds after birth, before a mother knows anything else about her baby.
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Birth Is Instinctive: Upright Birth Positions That Make Birth Faster, Safer and Gentler (opens in a new tab)
A practical look at upright birth positions and how they compare with giving birth flat on your back.
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Healing Birth (opens in a new tab)
A home birth story about healing and empowerment, written by Judy for Midwifery Today magazine.
Podcasts
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How to Reduce Your Risk of Tearing and Injury During Childbirth (opens in a new tab)
Does perineal massage work? Judy answers this and other questions about preventing tearing during childbirth.
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Navigating Birth Choices: Insights from a Midwife on Home Birth and Hospital Birth (opens in a new tab)
Weighing home birth against hospital birth? Judy shares what to know about labor hormones, interventions and home birth safety.
Meet the Midwives Who Will Be With You
Your care is provided by a small team of certified nurse midwives, so you know who will be at your birth before labor begins. Every midwife on our team holds New York State licensure and advanced training in obstetrical emergencies and newborn resuscitation.
- Judy Ribner DNP, CNM
- Malki Schuler MSN, CNM, C-EFM, LCCE
- Marisol Montoya CNM
- Laila Morgan CNM
Is a Birth Center Right for Your Pregnancy?
Upcoming Events and Classes
Childbirth Preparation Class
Our childbirth education classes help you understand how labor and birth work and how to prepare for them with confidence. Learn about the physiology of birth, comfort techniques, movement and positioning, partner support, and what to expect throughout.
Postpartum Support Group
The transition into life with a new baby is easier with community. Our postpartum support group offers a warm space to connect with other mothers, share experiences, ask questions, and receive support through the early weeks of motherhood.
Reach Out to Us
We are here to answer your questions and help you plan your birth experience. Schedule a tour or verify your insurance benefits today.
Phone: (646) 907-5515 x2
Email: office@birthingcenterlongisland.com
Address: 1512 Broadway Hewlett, NY 11557