Why Choose Wombkeepers for your Maternity Care?

At Wombkeepers, we have a completely unique approach towards prenatal care that you will not find with any other obstetrics or midwifery group in Essex County. It starts with the belief that helping women achieve a solid foundation of health and wellness during pregnancy promotes calmer, easier labors, more thoughtful parenting, and happier, stronger families.
To help you in this goal, we offer:
  • Instruction and guidance in diet, exercise, and holistic remedies for the physical and emotional stresses of pregnancy at each visit. 
  • Routine ultrasounds and blood work performed in our office for your convenience. 
  • Further support through our Maternity Wellness Center which provides in house: childbirth education, doula support, lacatation counseling, support groups, exercise classes, and natural vitamins and supplies for a better birth.

We are one of the few obstetrics practices in New Jersey that utilizes a low intervention, integrative model of care, with our doctor and midwifes working together in true collaborative fashion. This model provides patients the highest level of care, with the lowest rates of cesarean section, induction and intervention, with the comfort of knowing that should the need for medical intervention arise, our team is fully skilled to provide, without an interruption in continuity, the highest level of care for even the most at risk patients, including preterm, surgical and medically complicated deliveries. Our Practice consistently has a primary cesarean rate under 10% and a VBAC success rate over 85%   Learn more about our integrative model of care.....

Natural, Unmedicated Birth

Wombkeepers is unique among local obstetrics practices in our support of patients who wish to labor naturally and both our doctor and midwife have a unique understanding of how natural, unmedicated labors differ from labors with more interventions. Our Doctor and our midwives have special tools to help our patients in achieving their childbirth goals. As part of our standard practice, we:
  • Limit induction and the use of Pitocin and other medications used to augment labor except when medically necessary
  • Encourage the creation of a safe, quiet space for laboring women
  • Encourage doula support
  • Support women who desire intermittent or mobile monitoring
  • Encourage ambulation in labor
  • Encourage the use of hydrotherapy, aromatherapy, positioning, and massage for comfort during labor
  • Encourage women to birth their baby in the position most comfortable for them
  • Delay umbilical cord clamping
  • Promote skin-to-skin contact and the protection of the “golden-hour”
  • Promote breastfeeding

Medicated Birth

At Wombkeepers, we also fully support women who plan to use medications or an epidural for comfort during their labor. For many women, an epidural in labor is an invaluable tool that allows them to have a comfortable and calm birth. At Mountainside Hospital, anesthesiologists are available at all times to ensure availability when you want and need them. Our Doctor and our midwives help our patients identify the ideal time for an epidural and encourage better positioning for patients laboring with an epidural. As part of our standard practice, we:
  • Limit induction and the use of Pitocin and other medications to augment labor except when medically necessary or by maternal request
  • Encourage the creation of a safe, quiet space for laboring women
  • Encourage women to labor and birth their baby in the position most comfortable for them
  • Delay umbilical cord clamping
  • Promote skin-to-skin contact and the protection of the “golden-hour”
  • Promote breastfeeding

Cesarean Birth

If you plan to deliver by cesarean section or if the need for a cesarean delivery arises during your pregnancy or labor, you can have confidence in the skill of both our Doctor and the team at  Mountainside that enable cesareans to be performed in the safest way possible. 
A neonatologist is present for every cesarean delivery to assess the baby and provide support as needed.
In addition, as part of Wombkeeper's commitment to the Baby Friendly Initiative, we are working the make cesarean delivery a more family friendly experience as well, by implementing many components of the “natural cesarean,” which includes infant and mother skin to skin contact in the operating room and less separation of mom and baby in the first hours after birth. 
Our Doctor and our midwives firmly believe that women deserve autonomy in their childbirth choices and fully support women in achieving the type of birth experience they desire, whatever that may be for them. This includes support of women who wish to have a VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Previous Cesarean).  While the team at Wombkeepers specialize in natural labor, all patients benefit from our minimization of medical interventions except when medically necessary, with our lower rates of cesarean sections and other complications.
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Our Hospitals

Hackensack Meridian Health, Moutainside Medical Center, Montclair

Mountainside Hospital offers our patients the opportunity to birth in a quieter community hospital environment, with a special commitment to family centered care, natural birth, and breastfeeding, while still providing the necessary safety net if complications arise. We perform our term, low risk deliveries at Mountainside Hospital.
  • Newly Remodeled, State of the Art, Maternity and Post-Partum Rooms 
  • Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery (Level 2), caring for infants 32 weeks and above, with neonatologist in-house 24 hours per day
  • 24-hour in-house anesthesia and obstetrician coverage
  • All birth suites equipped with hydrotherapy and mobile monitors for those mothers who wish to labor naturally, including labor tubs
  • Breast Feeding Support and Lactation Counselors, with the best breast feeding rates in the state of New Jersey.
For more information, click below to review their website:
 Hackensack UMC Mountainside

Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston

Saint Barnabas Medical Center has much to offer our patients and their growing families, as a large, high risk center and is where all our high risk and deliveries prior to 32 weeks are performed.
  • State of the Art Maternity Rooms and Post-Partum Rooms
  • Top-rated Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery (Level 3), caring for infants as young as 23 weeks gestation, with neonatologist in-house 24 hours per day
  • 24-hour in-house anesthesia and obstetrician coverage
  • Relaxing Birth Rooms available for those mothers who wish to labor naturally, with hydrotherapy  and mobile monitors, including labor tubs
  • Breast Feeding Support and Lactation Counselors
For more information, click below to review their website:  
Saint Barnabas Medical Center