MIDWIVES

OWNER/SENIOR MIDWIFE

ABIGAIL IOVINE

My name is Abby,
I am a conservative traditional midwife, and medical freedom advocate, raised to love and honor God & family.

I’m also an 80’s baby!
We’re talking jazzercise, LAgear sneakers, and cassette tapes.
I had 7 digits in my landline.
(Too old for you to get that joke?)

I’ve been married for 18yrs and feel so lucky to be in this place with someone I love so much.
We have 10 awesome kids, 4 born in hospital, and 6 at home.
Yes they are all mine.
Yes I have given birth 10 times.

5 boys and 5 girls.
Dont ask me which is “harder”

My best answer depends on when you ask..
When my boys took all the doorknobs off of every door on the second floor?
Or when my daughters fight?
I wont have a solid answer for you.

The midwifery bug bit me after the birth of my 4th child.

Pregnant with my 5th, I googled
”How to NOT have a baby in the hospital”

And here we are

3 of my homebirths were with local midwives,
and babies 8, 9 & 10 were family births, or “unassisted”.

BABY #10 was born July 5th 2024-
Welcome baby Judah Emmanuel

We hope to be blessed with many more.
Hopefully the world can handle it.
I’m sure I could handle another 5 or 6 ..

As homeschooling parents, We have given our children the freedom and autonomy of unschooling and life schooling.
We have musicians, photographers, artists, athletes and seamstresses, we have high order math junkies and computer building whiz kids, we have animal experts, and kids with jobs.

As of 2024 we have 3 homeschool graduates!

We have one adult child (our oldest) who graduated at 16 as a homeschooler.

At 19, he ran off and joined the army, got married, bought a home with his wife, and gave us our first grandchild in August of 2022!

He does not want to be a midwife.

We are proud to be practicing Messianic Judaism, & doing our best at keeping holy days, clean diets, and keeping the laws set forth in scripture, to live a Christ-like life.
Far from perfect, we honor the real life realities of parenting & life everyday.

My hobbies include buying way too many houseplants, big dog and old world breed preservation, dog training and behavior, herpetology (reptiles)
and other things that I probably waste too much money on.
I also enjoy the nail salon.
If you’re lucky, you may catch me playing the piano or singing.
Someday we’ll have a family you tube channel.
Just kidding. That would be chaos.

My passions include adoption activism, birth advocacy, fighting female erasure, teaching new birth workers, & arguing about dog behavior on Facebook.

Our family moved to the Lehigh Valley in 2013, we are both from the Philly area & suburbs.
- Holler at The Crefeld School-
-You might hear a Philly accent if you get me going, but don’t get me started on NEPA cheesesteaks. Y’all are lucky I’m still here..

We moved to the Poconos recently, and opened the Tannersville midwifery office in 2022.

I began studying midwifery in 2010, after the birth of our 5th child, and first homebirth.

I became certified as a doula,  and began attending births in 2013.

My midwifery training has been under local midwives, The Art of Midwifery, in Media Pa, then alongside a traditional midwife at BEAUTIFUL BEGINNINGS HOMEBIRTH as an apprentice and assistant, followed by a formal apprenticeship with a homebirth CPM.

My homebirth practice, Cardinal Birth, is a family centered, client autonomous practice.

Here we honor the real life realities of kids, family, and life’s needs first.
We welcome families and children to prenatals and births, and lead a relaxed and open practice, where everyone is treated as equals, time management is flexible, and the pregnant woman is the lead in her care.

I am an incredibly transparent person, I love questions about my family or our lifestyle, my training or practice, so please feel free to ask.