Dr. Susanrachel Condon LM DM, a.k.a. Birdie, graduated from the SUNY Brooklyn Midwifery Program in 1998. She is also a certified cooperative childbirth educator, a sexual health instructor, and a massage therapy instructor, who has taught broadly in numerous programs and venues throughout the US. Susanrachel has served as a clinical preceptor for four midwifery programs. She was one of eight graduates in the inaugural class of the Doctorate in Midwifery at Jefferson University, studying the long term impact of conventional maternity care practices on mental health and well being. Her research was centered on consent, collaborative decision-making, overt obstetric violence and subtle, unconscious coercive practices as barriers to respectful care. She runs a Midwifery Practice based in the Hudson Valley, New York called River and Mountain Midwives.

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