Home Birth Midwife in Scranton & Wilkes-Barre

Northeast PA families have fewer home birth options than they should. We travel to you.

Cardinal Birth Midwifery provides full traditional midwifery care in Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties. Every prenatal visit is in your home, so there's no packing up the kids for an office appointment. We attend your birth and follow up with postpartum and newborn visits at home.

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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What care looks like

Unhurried visits. Real answers. Your decisions respected, including informed refusal. We schedule around family life.

If plans change

Part of intake is choosing the nearest appropriate hospital to your home and making sure your family knows exactly how a transfer would go.

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 Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties

Scranton, Dunmore, Clarks Summit, Dickson City, Olyphant, Jessup, Archbald, Carbondale, Old Forge, Moosic, Pittston, Wilkes-Barre, Kingston, Plains, Dallas, Shavertown, Mountain Top, Nanticoke, Drums and Hazleton.

Call (610) 216-2910.

Nearby areas we also serve: Poconos · Carbon & Schuylkill