Midwifery Services & Midwifery Model of Care
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Midwifery Services Provided
Complete Prenatal, Labor & Birth, PostPartum Services
Waterbirth & Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC)
Prenatal Care:
One Hour Prenatal Visits in your home or my office
Monitoring your vitals & overall health at each appointment
Monitoring baby’s growth, activity, positioning & heartbeat
Regularly scheduled visits: once a month until 28 weeks, twice a month until 36 weeks & weekly until your labor starts.
Additional visits if your pregnancy goes beyond 41 weeks gestation.
Standardized Testing & Prenatal Screening, including: ultrasounds, prenatal blood work, genetic testing, post dates screenings
Direct, On-call Services
Exercise, Diet & Nutritional Counseling for Optimal Health
Informed Consent
Prenatal Massage
Herbal Tea for healthy pregnancy
Referrals to other practitioners or physicians if additional support is needed
Labor & Birth
Waterbirth & VBAC Services
Midwifery Support by phone during early labor and during Active Labor a midwife by your side. We will come to you when you need us at any time.
Mama and Baby Vital Monitoring
Support & Guidance as desired or needed to ensure a safe and healthy outcome
Keeping mama and baby together and uninterrupted after delivery
Delayed Cord Management, Cord Burning, Lotus Birth, Placenta Prints & Placenta Medicine available
Midwifery Care continues for three hours or longer after birth, ensuring you and baby are well
Medications and/or hetbs to stabilize & manage emergencies and for routine care
Midwives attending your labor & birth are certified in Adult and Neonatal Resuscitation and BLS CPR
Continuity of Care if transport to a hospital setting is safest for you or your baby. We remain with you until you are settled in after birth.
Newborn Examination after Delivery
Post Partum Care
On-call Services
In-Home Visits for the first two weeks: Days 1, 3 or 4, 1 & 2 week
Postpartum Visits Week 4 & 6 are in home or office
Breastfeeding Support & Guidance
Emotional & Physical Support
Healthy Newborn Care up to six weeks, including Vitamin K, Metabolic Screen, Eye Ointment, Regular Weight & Growth Checks
Moxa Bustion & Massage
Organic Herbal Sitz Teas for healing your yoni
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Why Midwifery Care?
Midwife means with woman
Midwives are with women and their families through the transitions of childbearing.
Midwives provide individualized and respectful prenatal, birth, and postpartum care for healthy mothers and infants.
When a woman or baby’s needs fall outside our scope of practice, midwives refer to other qualified practitioners.
In midwifery care, mothers, midwives, and families are partners in creating a healthy pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Midwives provide excellent clinical care and education with a focus on informed choice, honoring the pregnant woman and family as the center of the process.
Midwifery care is grounded in the belief that pregnancy and childbirth are normal life processes.
Midwives take the time to know their clients and provide personalized care that is responsive to the values and goals of each mother and family.
Midwives Model of Care
The Midwives Model of Care is based on the fact that pregnancy and birth are normal life processes.
The Midwives Model of Care includes:
Monitoring the physical, psychological, and social well-being of the mother throughout the childbearing cycle
Providing the mother with individualized education, counseling, and prenatal care, continuous hands-on assistance during labor and delivery, and postpartum support
Minimizing technological interventions
Identifying and referring women who require obstetrical attention
The application of this woman-centered model of care has been proven to reduce the incidence of birth injury, trauma, and cesarean section.