Supporting Women through

Pregnancy and Birth

Our Lenox Hill Hospital Midwifery practice has a passion - to inspire, educate, protect, and guide you during your pregnancy, labor, birth, and post partum periods. Risa is a highly skilled senior midwife, and honored to be the Director of Midwives at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. The office is located on Manhattan's Upper East Side near the Q and 6 trains. Our compassionate and experienced certified nurse midwives, including Joy Wessman, will provide unique, individualized, and personalized midwifery care. Joy is from California, with a heart of gold, and served as a nurse midwife with Doctors Without Borders in Kenya, Sierra Leone, and South Sudan. 

 

Our midwifery practice would be honored to serve you and your family during this miraculous time of your lives.

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We believe with all our hearts that bringing your child into the world is a sacred and life changing event. We pledge to do everything possible to assist you in having the profound and personal birth experience that you envision and deserve. Our holistic midwifery care approach will ground you and preserve your heart felt desires while answering and addressing all of your important questions.