Midwifery care & Services

The independent midwifery model is a collaboration that fosters connection and understanding between the client and midwife. The focus is on the wellbeing of the birthing person, their baby, and their whole family. Our priority is to build a trusting relationship and to ensure full client involvement and autonomy.

Core values of midwifery care include:

• individualized care

• client autonomy

• informed choice

• collaborative decision-making

• continuity of care

• optimizing health and preventing complications wherever possible

• social and emotional support for the birthing family

• understanding the benefits of physiologic birth and having the skills to support this

• minimal intervention in the birth process

• thoughtful use of intervention when necessary

We begin with comprehensive, holistic prenatal care, with attention to you as a whole person. This includes nutrition & lifestyle counseling, hands-on & clinical monitoring of pregnant person and baby, laboratory testing, childbirth education, preparation for birth & parenting, and referrals to other providers as necessary.

Birth care includes 24/7 on call availability for your labor; presence, support and ongoing assessment of birthing person and baby; second midwife or other skilled assistant; birth your way – choose your birth space and positions, I will follow you; waterbirth, if desired; support for early bonding and breastfeeding; instructions for caring for self, baby and family in the first days after birth.

We see each other for regular early postpartum home visits (usually three in the first week, then again at two, four and six weeks). I provide support for lactation and infant feeding; recovery after birth and birth story processing; postpartum nutrition & exercise counseling; family adjustments; birth certificate paperwork; lab work as indicated, including Newborn Screening; family planning counseling.

Families who are planning to birth in the hospital, by choice or by necessity, can still enjoy personalized, holistic midwifery care to supplement their hospital experience. I offer custom supplemental midwifery care, tailored to your needs and desires. I can help with holistic pregnancy support and childbirth preparation, on-call labor evaluation and monitoring before going to the hospital, postpartum check ups at home for both mother and baby, including lactation support, Newborn Screening Test, and more.