Home Birth Midwife in the Pocono Mountains
Mountain roads, long driveways, snow in March. We plan for all of it.
Cardinal Birth Midwifery serves families across the Pocono Mountains with full traditional midwifery care in your home: prenatal visits, birth attendance, and postpartum and newborn care. Your home visit before 36 weeks covers the practical side: road access, parking, the driveway in bad weather, and how long it takes us to reach you.
Our services
Traditional Home Birth Midwifery
Full scope. In your home. In the beautiful Poconos.
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.
Distance is part of the plan
Hospitals can be far apart up here. Before labor, we map the route from your address to the nearest appropriate hospital and go over it with your family.
Call (610) 216-2910 to see if we're a fit.
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 the Poconos
Stroudsburg, East Stroudsburg, Mount Pocono, Tannersville, Tobyhanna, Pocono Summit, Pocono Pines, Blakeslee, Swiftwater, Cresco, Canadensis, Henryville, Brodheadsville, Effort, Saylorsburg, Kunkletown, Delaware Water Gap, Marshalls Creek, Bushkill, Milford, Dingmans Ferry, Lake Harmony, Hawley and Honesdale, across Monroe, Pike, Carbon and Wayne Counties.
Nearby areas we also serve: Lehigh Valley · Scranton & Wilkes-Barre · Carbon & Schuylkill
Ready to talk?
Schedule a free call. No pressure. Just a conversation about your birth, your family, and whether Cardinal Birth is the right fit.
📞 (610) 216-2910