Midwifery Care - Home Birth

$5000

This package includes the following care and schedule:

Prenatal Care

We can start your care as soon as you decide you want us to be your midwife! Our prenatal care is personalized for your needs, and we welcome your family to participate in all appointments! We typically recommend your first prenatal visit around 8-12 weeks, but this varies widely from family to family. We are also able to accommodate late transfers of care. We know that plans can change throughout a pregnancy! Want to find out if we have availability for your due window? Contact us!

Care Schedule

+ 8-27 weeks (every 4 weeks)
+ 28-36 weeks (every 2 weeks)
+ 37-42 (weekly)

Initial Visit

+ Review of family, health, social, physical, and obstetrical history
+ Obstetrical exam (listening to baby’s heartbeat and fetal growth check)
+ How to maintain a low-risk pregnancy (nutritional, exercise, and self-care counseling)
+ Initial lab work

Routine Visit

+ Weight check
+ Fetal growth check
+ Listen to baby’s heartbeat
+ Nutrition and exercise counseling
+ Discuss all questions or concerns in depth
+ Review labwork & ultrasound results

37 Week Visit

+ All components of routine visit
+ Group Beta Strep testing (GBS)
+ Provide birth kit
+ Planning for the big day, review of your birth preferences, review of transport procedures
+ Set up weekly prenatal visits until birth

Labor + Birth

We come to you when you go into labor! This means you can focus on coping with contractions in your own environment while your midwife sets up for the birth, monitors the birth process, and supports your natural labor. No car rides needed!

+ Physical and emotional support for you and your partner throughout labor
+ Non-disruptive monitoring of you and your baby’s safety, including intermittent monitoring of the fetal heart rate with a doppler
+ Emergency medications & supplies
+ IV antibiotics available for GBS positive parents
+ Immediate skin to skin contact for parents and baby, delayed cord clamping
+ Immediate postpartum care for mother and baby until family is stable and comfortable
+ Feeding initiation and lactation support

Postpartum Care

We stay with you for 2-4 hours after the birth, and continue to care for you and baby for the first 6 weeks postpartum.

+ Routine newborn medications are available with parental consent, (i.e. erythromycin eye ointment, and vitamin K) 
+ Herbal healing bath for mother and baby 
+ Breastfeeding assistance 
+ Newborn physical exam, including standard newborn screening tests (CCHD, Metabolic Screening, etc)
+ 24-48 hour, 4-6 day, 2 week and 6 week in-home postpartum visits including newborn care, postpartum care, and well-woman/family planning counseling at the final visit

*Services that are referred out such as ultrasounds are not included

*We are unable to accept Medicaid and most insurances at this time. However, we are able to accept Samaritan, Christian Health Share, and HSA payments.