Welcome to Lumen Midwifery
Offering full scope midwifery care throughout the reproductive lifecycle. Explore a variety of care options including home insemination, comprehensive homebirth care, postpartum care, and well-person care. Lumen’s services are designed to maximize access to the midwifery model in a responsive and connected environment. Schedule a free consult to discuss your specific needs and create an individualized care plan.
Meet the midwife
I’m Zev, a nonbinary, Certified Professional Midwife in the Boston area. I believe that midwifery connects the profound wisdom in our bodies with the collective health and strength of our communities. We need broad structural change to address health inequities impacting BIPOC folks, queer and trans folks, disabled folks, and many other communities who are experiencing strategic divestment and harm. Midwifery is a vital component of that transformation. My practice is meant to fight for liberation, and honor the dignity of our bodies through deep interpersonal connection.
I graduated from a MEAC accredited program at Maternidad La Luz, a midwifery school in El Paso, TX. In 2018 I became licensed by the North American Registry of Midwives and the state of Tennessee. For two years I worked as a staff midwife in a busy homebirth practice, then moved into fertility practice and birth equity work. In 2024, I moved home to Boston with my partner Sean and our twins, Ocean and Sequoia.
Testimonials
Zev was my preconception midwife in the year leading up to trying to conceive, and I am deeply grateful that I was able to have them accompany us as we started our parenting journey. Our sperm donor lives out of state, and we knew we would need to fly to them for inseminations. As a result, understanding my menstrual cycle so that we could accurately rearrange our work schedules and time our travel and insemination felt high stakes! Not only did Zev guide me in tracking my cycles and figuring out how to time our inseminations precisely, their caring and compassionate support helped me feel capable and build confidence in myself and my body. We got pregnant on our second try! I could not recommend working with Zev more highly - you will get a skilled, knowledgeable, dedicated, and deeply caring provider.
Zev combines their years of experience and clinical judgement with a sincere, personal touch. They advised me before I started trying to conceive on what to do to take care of my body to have the best chances of conceiving. I feel very lucky to have gotten pregnant on the first try, thanks in part to Zev’s evidence-based consultation. Working with Zev before I got pregnant was a joy and gave me such a good head start in my healthy pregnancy.
Zev’s preconception care was comprehensive and compassionate. They provided insight and valuable resources for our unique situation and was available to go over my charts in real time. They midwifed our family into conception and we are eternally grateful.
Zev was the most knowledgeable and flexible cervix whisperer we have ever had the pleasure of working with (we’ve been seen by a bunch of them). When we came to Zev we already had one kiddo but were struggling to get pregnant again. Despite the fact that we had already done this once and were using ALL the fertility tracking methods under the sun they still taught us a number of things! When it came to the actual IUI they were knowledgeable, calm, affirming, and consent centered. We got pregnant on the first try with Zev!