Amazing Birth

 

The ob/midwives listed below are compassionate and wonderful caregivers.

Maryland:

Midwifery Care Associates, www.midwiferycareassociates.com, deliver at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital (Rockville/Gaithersburg) and Frederick.

Midwives at University of Maryland, http://www.umm.edu/women/physicians/obstetrics.htm
Vivian Fraga, chevy chase, (301) 654-2182. VBAC friendly, solo practitioner. Delivers at Sibley.
Dr. Robert Footer, 6282 Montrose Rd, Rockville, MD
Foxhall, Dr. Loveland and Dr. Sarafian

Special Beginnings A free-standing birth center in Arnold. Labor in the birth center or at the nearby hospital.

Alternative Birth Choices Home birth/Water birth/Hospital birth 410-455-9659

DC:

DC Birth center: http://www.developingfamilies.org/dcbc.html (birth center birth, water birth, will transfer to hospital before or during birth if necessary)
Dr. Malcom DeSouza
Women OB/Gyn: http://womenob-gyn.com/ (Two women OB/Gyns, deliver at Sibley)
Georgetown University OB/Gyns
Dr. Robert D Footer (202) 362-0355, 3301 New Mexico Ave Nw, Washington, DC 20016
Dr. Susan Hurson: She doesn't participate in any insurance plans, but her staff will submit all of your charges to your insurance company for out-of-network reimbursement. Also, she doesn't deliver babies most weekends; she shares call with a large practice, so if you deliver on a weekend when she's not on call, you will be delivered by a doctor you don't know.
Dr. Virginia Thompson

Virginia:

Birth Care: http://www.birthcare.org/ (birth center births or home births, will transfer to hospital before or during birth if necessary)
Jean-Gilles Tchabo, area’s go-to doctor for VBAC, delivers at Virginia Hospital Center
1701 N George Mason DR
Arlington, Virginia 22205
Phone: (703) 558-6591
Physicians and Midwives in Alexandria (delivery at INOVA Alexandria)

Home Birth midwives:

http://www.traditionalmidwiferyofnova.com/
Birth Care: http://www.birthcare.org/
Joey Pascarella: www.sacredjourneymidwifery.com, 703-981-8438
Call MAMAS (Metropolitan Area Midwifery and Allied Services) to find out more.

Water Birth By: The Tunnel Singer - Lee Ellen Shoemaker
Praises for the World By: Jennifer Berezan
Returning (to the mother of us all) By: Jennifer Berezan
Effortless Relaxation and Chakra suite By: steve Halpern
Philip Elcano also has some very nice relaxing cd's..his RainDance series...Cloud Dancer, Dancing from Within
Mother's Melody: One Heart By: Maria Kostelas. It is just beautiful.....just how I could imagine being loved from inside the womb and Hugged with each surge!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Forever by the sea

Dr. Fusner at Kensington Pediatrics is an MD/ homeopath. The practice is just her and a nurse practitioner who is also a homeopath, and they are wonderful. They are located in Kensington, straight out Conn. Ave.
June Fusner
Kensington Pediatrics
10400 Connecticut Ave Suite 215
Kensington, MD (301) 949-8860
MD/Homeopath/Pediatrician
Nurse: Nancy Hoover
Lactation Consultant on staff
Accepts hospital/birth center/homebirth babies
(very popular, often not accepting new patients)

Dr. Thomas Sullivan
Alexandria Lake Ridge Pediatrics (703-212-6600) right off Seminary Road near the hospital

Dr. Barakat and Dr. Lisa Kelly, http://tinyurl.com/yvf4p4, 703-532-4446
Northern Virginia Pediatric Associates
107 North Virginia Avenue
Falls Church, VA 22046

Amy Burke, Georgetown Hospital

Iona Razi, 202-333-1774
3537 R St., NW
Washington, DC
MD/Homeopath/Pediatrician
Accepts hospital/birth center/homebirth babies;
Makes home visit after home birth, takes only one patient a month, speaks French

Mark Garzon, 202-237-7000, x108
National Integrated Health Associates
5225 Wisconsin Ave., NW #401
Washington, DC
MD/Family Practice Physician
Accepts hospital/birth center/homebirth babies;
Dr. Garzon is a holistic family practice physician with both conventional and holistic training in pediatric and adult medicine
http://www.nihadc.com/garzon.htm

Pediatric Center of Rockville, 6000 Executive Boulevard

Children's Pediatricians & Associates in Montgomery Village

Shady Grove Pediatrics on Shady Grove Rd.

Fran Toler 301-367-1551 (also a homebirth midwife)
National Integrated Health Associates, http://www.nihadc.com