Eileen has been fascinated with the birth process since childhood and fulfilled her dream to become a CNM in 1977 after graduating from State University of New York at Downstate. She has practiced full scope midwifery care for most of her career. In 1981, Eileen opened the first Birth Center in the State of Maryland. The Baltimore Birth Center was open for more than twenty years. Eileen has served as a faculty member of Georgetown University, and the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing. She has also served as adjunct faculty and preceptor for nursing, midwifery and nurse practitioner students across the country. From 1993 until 2003, Eileen was a Governor-Appointee Committee Member for the State Commission on Infant Mortality. In 2003, Eileen went to Stony Brook University and received her MS degree and Family Nurse Practitioner certificate. As a nurse- midwife and family nurse practitioner, Eileen has had a special interest in working with patients who are physically and mentally challenged. She and her husband, Michael have ten children. They try to travel as often as possible.
Health care reform has brought notable benefits to the practice of midwifery in the United States. The Affordable Care Act will help make midwifery care more accessible for patients and providers both.
More and more women are being refused the right to give birth on their own terms as more and more hospitals ban women from VBACs. Choice means that a woman must have the freedom and support to compare the risks of VBAC and the risks of cesarean surgery.
During National midwifery week, a midwife recommends the swine flu vaccine for pregnant women in the United States and offers up more resources and information.
