Nidhi Reva Sharpens the Idea of Humane Medicine with Newborn Care Education and Lifesaving Practices
With more than two decades as a healthcare provider, Nidhi Reva has spent most of her life caring for others, but in 2025, during a mission in Ecuador, she learned what it meant to be on the receiving end of that care. As the founder of Nested Health LLC, Reva has devoted her career to helping families navigate the complexities of childbirth, women’s health, newborn care and emergency resuscitation. Her scope of work goes beyond leading the company, as she both teaches and supports healing for her patients.
“I founded Nested in 2017 in partnership with Partners for Andean Community Health, with a goal to give families the knowledge and skills they need to create the safest, healthiest nest possible for their growing families,” Reva shares. The company offers childbirth education classes, CPR certification, newborn and infant care, babysitting courses and other life-saving skills, structured to be taught by healthcare professionals.
“So much of the fear around childbirth comes from not understanding what’s happening in your own body. If we can educate women properly, we can give them agency,” she explains. Reva keeps empathy and clinical expertise as the foundational elements of all her courses, guided by the belief that knowledge should be accessible to everyone, regardless of personal circumstances.
Nested’s impact transcends beyond the four walls of a clinic or a classroom, with its international outreach program, Project Nido or Project Nest, where Reva leads annual medical missions to Ecuador with volunteers inside and outside the medical field, exposing the youth to philanthropic efforts that hope to shape their career path. The medical mission encompasses gynecological care, dental services, vision support and a program to screen women for cervical cancer with the ability to treat it in the fields. “Many of those women may not have seen a clinician dedicated solely to women’s health. So matters like painful menstruation, birth control options and pelvic pain are never addressed,” Reva shares. “Our goal is to provide education, medical care and give them options that infuse medical care with Indigenous holistic practices.” Project Nido also teaches local healthcare providers to provide long-term follow-up and have a lasting impact.
Her 2025 mission in Ecuador, however, became a life-altering experience. Days before clinic work began, Reva fell critically ill with appendicitis, which rapidly escalated into septic shock, liver failure and renal failure. “I was rushed to surgery,” she recalls. “The same doctors and clinics I had worked with for years now became the ones fighting to save my life. They ended up helping 500 patients, and me.” But the ground situation of the hospital she was at opened her eyes to a sobering reality she had previously overlooked.
“They only had an ultrasound and an X-ray machine. It was that, along with antibiotics, and pure communication and willpower keeping me alive,” she says. Reva was medevacked to Miami, spent three weeks in a coma, and months recovering, relearning to speak, eat, walk and perform simple motor functions. She reflects. “For the first time, I had no agency. I had to rely completely on others. It reshaped how I approach medicine, how I teach and how I live my life.” Her recovery was also strengthened by her relationships and made her more deliberate in how she spends her time and energy.
Today, that personal journey has influenced every facet of Nested LLC. She notes that classes now emphasize empowerment with medical guidance, aiming to give families and patients the confidence to make informed choices. CPR training has become a cornerstone of Nested’s mission. “Everyone should be equipped with the knowledge to save a life. That skill should be as essential as knowing how to dial a phone,” she says.
Envisioning her future, Reva plans to continue her annual work both in the US and abroad, returning to Ecuador in 2026 to work alongside the people who saved her life. She also hopes to share her story and mission widely through public speaking and writing, leveraging her journey to inspire others and, as she emphasizes, bring humanity back to medicine. “Technology matters, but presence matters more,” she says. “The human element, the way we listen, care and educate, can change lives.”
