Comprehensive Prenatal Care

• Free consultation visit to meet the midwives and explore your birth options
  
• Confidential pregnancy tests and counseling
  
• Individualized visits including lab tests, wellness care, nutritional counseling, physical assessment, ample time for your questions and time to get to know one another
  
• Welcoming of partners, children and family members at visits
  
• 36-37 week home visit for families planning a home birth
  
• Local resource network including birth education classes, local pediatricians, naturopathic physicians, doula services, acupuncture, massage, birth tub rental and more
  
• Appropriate medical consultation/referral for when a pregnancy deviates from normal
  
• 24-hour on-call paging system
  

Gentle Labor and Birth Care

• Your choice of home or birth center services from 37 weeks to 42 weeks of pregnancy
  
• Water birth
  
• 24 hour a day availability by midwife
  
• Support in your labor
  
• Ongoing assessment of mother and baby's well-being
  
• Qualified birth assistant in addition to midwife at every birth
  
• Medical consultation/transport when deviations from normal occur
  

Attentive Postpartum Care and Guidance

• Care and support by your midwife in immediate postpartum period, normally 3 to 6 hours after birth
  
• Complete exam of your baby after birth
  
• Ongoing breastfeeding support
  
• Postpartum visit the day after the birth for you and your baby
  
• 4 postpartum visits offered in the first 6 weeks—more if needed
  
• Care of your normal newborn for the first 2 weeks of life
  
• Standard newborn tests offered
  
• Birth certificate services
  
• 6-week follow-up to offer well-women care such as breast exams, pap smears and family planning options