- Preconception Counseling
- Timing your pregnancy
- Understanding your cycle
- Your health, your baby’s health
- Stress and Recovery Plan
- Choosing a provider
- Prenatal Care
- Early, Often and Easy to Access appointments
- On time, every time, all the time you need
- Your midwife is your midwife, you’ll see her at each visit
- All screens and tests offered (blood work, testing, ultrasounds)
- Shared, education-based decision making
- Appointments in the clinic, your home, or place of work
- Appointments on evenings or weekends
- Evidence-based, individualized care for all
- Visits once per month (or more as needed) until week 32, then visits at week 34, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41
- Monthly phone check-ins between appointments
- Birth
- At your home or in the birth center, or a planned hospital birth with a physician
- Attended by your midwife and her team that you will have spent time with prenatally
- Midwife brings all equipment, supplies, and medication to your birth. This includes fetal monitor, IV fluids, oxygen, sterile instruments, and suturing equipment
- Midwife stays at your home until mother and baby are stable and fed and demonstrate comfort with her leaving (usually 4-6 hours)
- Family stays in birth center until mother and baby are stable and fed and demonstrate comfort with her leaving (usually 4-6 hours)
- Postpartum
- Newborn screens, birth certificates
- Home visits on days 1, 3, 5, and 7 (more often if needed)
- Clinic visits on weeks 2, 4, and 6 for mom and baby
- Referrals for pediatric care and well woman care