Whitney Pinger attended her first birth when she was a junior in high school and has been training and serving as a midwife for the past 45 years.  She is the Founder of WISDOM Midwifery and The WISDOM Pilot Project for Normal Birth and Cesarean Prevention (2007-present).  She is also the Founder and past Director of GW Midwifery (2010-2020) and she continues to serve GW as an Associate Clinical Professor.  She is currently working with BirthCare and Women’s Health and teaching breech birth with Breech Without Borders.

 A California native, she graduated from UC Berkeley in 1983 and completed her midwifery training at Yale University in 1986.  Whitney has practiced in the Washington DC area for the past 35years, where she established several private and academic practices, as well as directed the Prenatal and Pediatrics Programs at The Washington Free Clinic.  She has served on the faculty at Yale University, Georgetown University, Medstar Washington Hospital Center, and The George Washington University.  She is most known for her development of The Midwifery Pearls: Evidence for Clinical Practice, a unique presentation of the evidence-based strategies utilized by midwives to promote normal birth and achieve not only the very best obstetrical outcomes, but also the highest patient satisfaction and The Pinger Patterns of Labor, an innovative and collaborative labor management strategy.

Whitney is an expert in evidence-based maternity care, natural childbirth, optimal nourishment, movement, and lifestyle during pregnancy, primary cesarean prevention, vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC), vaginal breech delivery, health disparities, and collaborative practice.  She is committed to, and passionate about, the education of the next generation of midwives, nurses, physicians, and students of all backgrounds who want to support birthing people optimize their chances of physiologic, uninterrupted birth.  Her strong advocacy for evidence-based, innovative care and collaborative practice infuses her teaching and her midwifery practice. 

Whitney left GW Midwifery in 2020 to focus on the development of The WISDOM Midwifery Model of Care, join BirthCare and Women’s Health, and teach breech birth.  She also provides counseling and birth trauma services and leads rituals and celebrations.