Village Midwife Practice Brings New Approach To Women's Health

BABYLON, NY — A Babylon Village certified nurse-midwife wants to bring an alternative approach to women's health care to her community. Amanda Sini is passionate about the holistic, integrated approach midwifes can offer women, not only for pregnancy and childbirth but for routine care throughout women's lives.

"I love living and working in a small town," Sini says. She's worked as a nurse midwife, delivering babies with Gaia Midwives and at Stony Brook Hospital. Last week she opened the doors to her own Babylon practice, at 444 Deer Park Ave.

The Village Midwife will offer comprehensive care for women's health, Sini says. Midwives are trained to fully replace standard gynecology care for women, from adolescence to post-menopause.

The practice offers: annual gynecological exams, female adolescent healthcare, birth control, cervical cancer screening, sexually transmitted infection screening, breast exams, help with hormones, and fertility and preconception counseling.

But it's the integrated female-provider approach that Sini says is unique from the traditional ob-gyn approach.

"During Covid so many people have been taking back their health, learning more about their bodies. Midwifery focuses on education, the first reaction isn't just medicine but we look at lifestyle choices, figuring out root causes," she told Patch.

As a mother of three and someone as she says "young enough to relate to young women but still mature and seasoned" Sini is also passionate about helping girls navigate adolescence.

"Instead of going to an ob-gyn who is going to spend five minutes" with a patient, Sini wants to offer more support, and more of a personal connection with her patients.