Home Birth Midwife in Delaware County

Delco families: full traditional midwifery care, in your own home.

Cardinal Birth Midwifery serves central and northern Delaware County. Prenatal visits are at your house. We attend your birth, stay through the first hours, and return for postpartum and newborn visits. Birth certificate and Social Security card filing are handled for you.

Our services

Traditional Home Birth Midwifery

Full scope. In your home. Across Eastern Pennsylvania.

Prenatal care — in-home visits, pregnancy monitoring, lab access, informed conversation
Birth attendance — with you through labor, delivery, and the hours that follow
Postpartum and newborn support — home visits, breastfeeding guidance, newborn observation, maternal recovery
Birth certificate and Social Security card filing
Water birth support and traditional placenta preparation available

Birth Advocacy

We are a midwifery practice and an advocacy group.

Informed consent. Bodily autonomy. The right to make your own decisions in the hospital, at home, or anywhere in between.

We give you the resources and the backbone to exercise those rights.

Functional Wellness

Preconception through postpartum.

Natural fertility guidance, holistic nutrition, breastfeeding support grounded in evidence and tradition.

About Abigail Iovine

I'm Abby. I founded Cardinal Birth in 2013 after five years of apprenticeship under local midwifery elders.

I'm a mother of ten. Four hospital births. Six at home — three with a midwife, three unassisted. I am not theorizing about what birth can look like when it's left alone. I know.

I've attended births across this region for over a decade. I bring emergency preparedness, deep experience, and the kind of calm that only comes from having seen a lot of births — including my own.

You are the lead in your care. My job is to make sure you stay that way.

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Straight answers

You'll know who attends your birth, how we handle emergencies, and how a transfer would work. During intake we identify the nearest appropriate hospital to your home and go over the plan with your family.

Your decisions stay yours

Informed consent and informed refusal are respected here. We give you the information. You decide.

On Legal Status in Pennsylvania

Cardinal Birth is a traditional midwifery practice. Not state-licensed. Our work is rooted in faith, education, and tradition.

Pennsylvania's legal landscape for traditional midwives is complicated and, frankly, contradictory. I write about it openly on my Substack. We discuss it openly with every family we serve.

Every family has the right to choose who attends their birth. We stand behind that completely.

Where we serve in Delaware County

Media, Newtown Square, Broomall, Marple, Springfield, Swarthmore, Wallingford, Drexel Hill, Upper Darby, Lansdowne, Clifton Heights, Havertown, Ridley Park, Folsom, Morton and Aston. Radnor and Wayne families: see our Main Line page.

Call (610) 216-2910.

Nearby areas we also serve: Main Line · Philadelphia