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Safe, holistic, family-centered care to women and their families since 2005. Full scope midwifery care for prenatal, birth, and postpartum care.

About Us

Midwifery for childbearing women is provided by co-owners Adrian Feldhusen, NHCM, CPM, and Autumn Vergo, NHCM, CPM. Autumn and Adrian

Adrian E. Feldhusen, NHCM, CPM Adrian is a Certified Professional and New Hampshire Certified Midwife who lives in Southern New Hampshire with her husband, James, and 3 children, Justin, Megan, & Abigail, two of whom were born at home. She currently attends births in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Adrian has been involved with birthing families since 1992 as a midwife, doula, childbirth educator, and breastfeeding counselor. She is the founder of The Birth Cottage in New Ipswich, NH and co-founder of The Birth Cottage of Milford in Milford, NH, a free standing birth center. Adrian trained at The Birth Center in Dearborn, Michigan and also at Victoria Jubilee Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica, both of which served diverse cultural and ethnic populations of childbearing families. During her studies for a BS in Community and Human Services with a Concentration in Maternal and Perinatal Health through the State University of New York, Adrian's work has been featured in a variety of publications. She continues to write and teach her art to others. Adrian has been appointed by the Governor to sit on the NH Midwifery Council and is currently the Chair of the Council. She has been instrumental in lobbying for legislation regarding insurance reimbursement for midwives in the state. Adrian is an adjunct faculty member of Birthwise Midwifery School. Contact Adrian via email: adrian@birthcottage.com. Autumn Vergo, NHCM, CPM Autumn is a New Hampshire Certified Midwife attending homebirths in southern New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts. She is co-owner of The Birth Cottage of Milford, PLLC, a freestanding birth center which provides full-scope midwifery care, including well-woman and gynecological services to women of all ages. After completing her undergraduate degree at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Autumn attended births as a doula and taught childbirth education for several years. She is a traditionally-trained midwife and is nationally certified by the North American Registry of Midwives. Autumn is an adjunct faculty member of Birthwise Midwifery School, a MEAC-accredited school located in Bridgton, ME. She lives in Wilton, NH with her husband and two children. Contact Autumn via email: autumn@birthcottage.com.

Tracey A. Bowman, CNM, ARNP Tracey A. Bowman, CNM, ARNP earned her BSN from Rhode Island College in 1983 and her MSN from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986. Certified in 1997 by the American Midwifery Certification Council as a CNM. She is a member of the American College of Nurse-Midwives and the Midwives Alliance of North America. Since 1977 Tracey has focused on women's health care issues. She has worked in many types of settings including home, hospital and birth centers, providing well woman care, care during pregnancy, birth and postpartum as well as initial newborn care.

"I started my dream of being a midwife after having my first child at age 20 and while studying dance therapy as a way to work with autistic children. What kept coming up in my studies was "birth trauma" as a possible cause of autism. Whether or not this is true became secondary to my goal of helping women, babies and families have birth experiences which are not traumatic. I have successfully worked in hospitals, birth centers and homebirths through out New England. I have been privileged to witness the strength and power of women as they achieve their goal of a natural childbirth. My cesarean section rate has consistently been below 5% regardless of place of birth." Joining her private practice in 2004 with Adrian created the Birth Cottage of Milford. After thirty years in private practice doing homebirths and birth center births and in hospital work Tracey felt the need to move into a new phase in her midwifery practice. She passed her ownership of the Birth Cottage of Milford in January of 2010 to Autumn Vergo. Tracey is currently an independent practitioner (CNM, ARNP) providing holistic health care and gynecological care to women of all ages in her office in Peterborough and at the Birth Cottage of Milford. (and sleeping all night!) Tracey believes gyn care should be safe, comfortable and informative. Many common gyn health problems can be managed with herbs, homeopathy, nutritional and natural medicines. Tracey has lectured extensively on waterbirth and delayed cord clamping in New England and internationally. Having taught student midwives in her clinical practice for the past 16 years she will now be teaching at Yale University beginning in January of 2011 teaching future midwives in their Master's of Nurse-Midwifery program. She is the proud mother of three grown children and 7 grandchildren, 5 of them born at home into her hands. Contact Tracey via email: midwifetb@yahoo.com.

Phone 603.673.6010    Fax 603.673.6014    Email info@birthcottage.com

Locations: 4 Prospect St. in Milford, NH and at the Union Mill in Peterborough, NH, 374 Union Street #113