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Judy Kaplan
CNM APRN
For over three decades, I have been privileged to attend over 3,600 births in homes, hospitals, and birth centers. During that time, women presented me with many health challenges that required ingenuity and determination to treat because conventional medicine didn’t offer solutions. Frustrated by conventional medicine’s limitations, I was inspired to evolve in a holistic and integrative healthcare approach. In 2018 I graduated from the Women’s Integrative Medicine Institute, focusing on Holistic Root Cause Functional Medicine, which focuses on the root cause rather than masking the symptoms.
In my private midwifery practice, my motto was “Your Birth Your Way”.
My personal conviction has always been to bring the benefits of home into our hospitals so that all families can benefit from the great outcomes of the Midwifery model of care, and to be reassured and confident at this important time.
Experience
I have worked as a team member of OB/GYN/CNM Faculty practices in the following hospitals
- Brookdale Medical Center, Brooklyn NY
- Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn NY
- St Mary’s Hospital, West Palm Beach FL
- Boca Raton Medical Center, Boca Raton, FL
and as a staff CNM and RN in Labor and Delivery at
- Van Nuys Hospital, Van Nuys CA
- Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles Ca
- Rivka Ziv and Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center in Israel
I now work with Licensed Professional Midwives as a CNM consultant at Miami Maternity Center in Miami, Florida, since 2010. Thank you for your interest in my practice.
Credentials
Graduate of the Women’s Integrative Medicine Institute with an emphasis on Functional Medicine for Women.
My training as a midwife was completed at New York Columbia University’s advanced midwifery program for foreign-trained midwives at North Central Bronx Hospital, and at Hadassah School of Nursing’s branch program in Safed (Israel). Following master-level studies in Women’s Health, Midwifery, Gynecology, Pharmacology, Newborn Resuscitation, lactation counseling, Endocrinology, and more, I was certified by the Israeli Misrad HaBriot and the American Midwifery Certification Board and became a member of the American College of Nurse-Midwives.
I am licensed in Florida as an APRN (Advanced Practice Registered-Nurse) and CNM (Certified Nurse Midwife).
Before becoming certified as a CNM in 1989, I worked as an R.N., doula, and childbirth educator. During these years, I also gave birth to ten children, all naturally, thank God, and some were born at home.
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Judith offers a full range of woman’s health services, including well-woman / annual screening, diagnosis and treatment of specific problems and holistic and Functional treatment.
We specialize in the folowings:
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Women’s Health
Hormone Assessment
Bodeket and Rabbinical Consultant
Integrative treatment utilizing holistic, natural and allopathic
Undertreated Hormone Imbalances
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As a private practice CNM in Brooklyn in 1995, I began to research the many hormonal imbalances that plagued many of my clients, especially PCOS which causes infertility. Because most doctors were not holistic minded and tended to shy away from the mysterious female hormone system, these problems were usually neglected unless immediately life-threatening.
With a midwife’s belief in the inherent wisdom of body systems, I began to explore root cause solutions long before holistic approaches to hormone imbalances became popular. Research on female obesity and PCOS was just beginning to emerge from organizations such as the American Academy of Clinical Endocrinologists, but unforrtunately it takes years for research to enter mainstream practice. Decades later it is still remarkably difficult to find a healthcare provider that deals comprehensively with hormonal and metabolic disorders. The media is also flooded with confusing claims, costly products and unproven remedies, so women’s problems are often neglected or inappropriately treated.
Seeking root causes and innovative solutions for problems such as PCOS, hypothyroidism, infertility, hirsutism, obesity and other hormonal imbalances has always been my professional and personal mission, due to the havoc and suffering that these problems caused, and because most of these problems eventually spiral out of control and result in life-endangering illness such as heart disease, obesity, diabetes, cancer, infertility.
My conservative and economical approach has always been based on cutting edge solid medical research which I am continuously seeking, and on proven therapies- many holistic and natural.
You deserve pragmatic, economical, and effective solutions.
BE PROACTIVE IF YOUR DOCTOR RECOMMENDS TO “WAIT AND SEE”
Since 2009 Judy has provided herbal ablative treatments for HPV and Cervical Dysplasia including Herbal Therapy for CIN. Judy will also work in tandem with your current healthcare provider.