Midwifery Services & Midwifery Model of Care

  • 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, 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

    Midwifery Care continues for three hours after birth, ensuring you and baby are well

    Medications and/or hetbs o stabilize & manage emergencies and for routine care

    Midwives attending your labor & birth are certified in Adult and Neonatal Resuscitation

    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

    Placenta Medicine

    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

    Placental Medicine Encapsulation

    Moxa Bustion & Massage

    Organic Herbal Sitz Teas

  • 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.