MIDWIFERY
Midwives are experts in normal birth and adept at ensuring excellent outcomes for women and infants. The safety and benefits of midwifery care have been proven again and again in countries across the world, including the United States. Midwives are the traditional care providers for mothers and infants. Midwives are trained professionals with expertise and skills in supporting women to maintain healthy pregnancies and have optimal births and recoveries during the postpartum period. Midwives provide women with individualized care uniquely suited to their physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and cultural needs. Midwifery is a woman-centered empowering model of maternity care that is utilized in all of the countries of the world with the best maternal and infant outcomes such as The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Canada.
MIDWIVES MODEL OF CARE IS WOMAN-CENTERED
The Midwives Model of Care™ is a fundamentally different approach to pregnancy and childbirth than contemporary obstetrics. Midwifery care is uniquely nurturing, hands-on care before, during, and after birth. Midwives are health care professionals specializing in pregnancy and childbirth who develop a trusting relationship with their clients, which results in confident, supported labor and birth. While there are different types of midwives practicing in various settings, all midwives are trained to provide comprehensive prenatal care and education, guide labor and birth, address complications, and care for newborns. The Midwives Model of Care™ is based on the fact that pregnancy and birth are normal life events.
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 and
Identifying and referring women who require obstetrical attention.
The application of this model has been proven to reduce to incidence of birth injury, trauma, and cesarean section. (Midwives Model of Care definition is Copyrighted © by the Midwifery Task Force, all rights reserved)
COMPLETE MIDWIFERY PRENATAL AND POSTPARTUM CARE
Our compassionate and informative care includes:
30 Minutes to 1 hour visits
Care can start as early as 8 weeks
Monthly visits until 28 weeks, Biweekly visits from 28-36 weeks, Weekly visits until delivery
Childbirth Education Class included
Doula provided
Intrapartum care (attendance from the establishment of active labor until at least 2.5 hours postpartum)
In Home Postpartum care at 2-3 day postpartum, 1 week postpartum, and 2 weeks postpartum.
In Office Postpartum care at 4 weeks postpartum and 6 weeks postpartum
In office Blood draws and lab specimen collection
Ultrasound are referred out to community providers
24 hour availability via phone/text
Lactation support
Newborn care: with full newborn exam, metabolic screen, and CCHD screenings, the option of Vitamin-K, eye ointment if chosen, weight checks, and breastfeeding support.
