Lisa Lederer CNM

Lisa Lederer, CNM, President of the Midwives of New Jersey, LLC. Lisa became a Certified Nurse-Midwife in 1994 after attending the University of Medicine and Dentistry’s Midwifery program. She founded The Midwives of New Jersey in October of 2010 with the intention of promoting the growth of Midwifery and Improving Birth Outcomes in New Jersey. Lederer currently leads a practice of 7 Midwives that delivers babies at 2 hospitals, a birth center and patients’ homes. Lisa introduced “Natural Cesarean” to Morristown Medical Center in 2011. The Midwives of New Jersey specialize in facilitating physiologic birth using the Midwifery Model of Care.

The practice had an 8% primary cesarean rate and overall cesarean rate of 10% in 2017. Lisa believes that women themselves are a large part of the solution to the Cesarean epidemic. Her practice has focused on individual empowerment and education of their clients which has resulted in their extraordinary birth outcomes in a state that has one of the highest cesarean rates in the country. Her book “Avoiding Cesarean: A Patient Guide” provides detailed information that enables women to navigate the American maternity system with confidence. They will Avoid Unnecessary Cesarean Birth by taking responsibility for the health of their pregnancy and birth.