There’s no place like home.
There’s no place like home.
You are capable of having the birth you desire.
Maria the Midwife
COMMUNITY MIDWIFERY
Being a Community Midwife is a lifestyle; a belief system that holds people as sovereign beings capable of making the best informed choice for themselves and their families.
I am a weaver within the community - working with other midwives and an assortment of practitioners to supply families with the resources they need. We are all stronger together.
BIRTH PHILOSOPHY
My midwifery practice focuses heavily on the main pillars of a healthy pregnancy and birth:
Connections / Relationships
Nourishment (of the whole being)
Rest and Stress management
Movement (not the same as exercise)
Hydration
I believe that focusing on these pillars set us up to have healthy vibrant pregnancies, births and postpartum times.
Also, nature can be a bit of a wild card! So, while we set ourselves up the best we can, we also prepare and train for unseen circumstances.
Birth is basic to human life, we’ve been birthing since the beginning of humanity. Yes, times have changed, but the mechanisms of birth have not.
MIDWIFERY CARE PACKAGES
Midwifery Foundations Package $5,500
An initial in-depth prenatal visit, approx. two hours.
Prenatal visits are the foundation of our journey together. This is where we discuss your ideal birth and our plan to work towards that. These visits are 45-60 mins each, once a month until 28 weeks, every two weeks until 36 weeks and then every week until the baby is born. (This schedule is not set in stone. If you would like less or more visits, let’s talk.) Visits are primarily at my office; during your third trimester one or two visits will be at your home.
Basic lab work at initial visit and again around 28 weeks: OB panel, CBC, TIBC, Ferritin, Vit D, Antibodies, HA1C,
Testing offered during pregnancy: Gestational diabetes, Group B Strep
Free access to any birth education class I put on during your pregnancy
A paid birth assistant or apprentice.
On-call from 37 weeks until birth.
A birth pool is available for use, you purchase a specific liner ($30) and water potable hose of appropriate length.
Assistance during labor, birth and a couple of hours after birth to get you snuggled in.
Postpartum visits: (at your home) 24 to 48 hrs, 3 to 5 days, 1 week, 2 weeks. A 4 week optional home visit or phone call. A 6 week visit at my office.
Breastfeeding and lactation support
Postpartum accessibility via phone
Newborn screen options: CCHD (critical congenital heart defect screen), Hearing Screen, Newborn metabolic screen.
Other options included: Vit K drops or injection, Birth Certificate Filling
What is not included: A birth kit ordered from In His Hands ($60-$90), towels for birth, water birth pool liner & water potable hose, ultrasounds (I can refer to either hospital for ultrasounds). Lab work beyond the main lab work provided (these cost ‘cash value’ and are usually cheaper than using your insurance).
Deluxe Midwifery Package (all the bells & whistles) $6,150
Everything included in the Foundations Package plus:
Dynamic Body Balancing or other appropriate bodywork at prenatals
Two prenatal massages with Maria ($170 value)
Two postpartum massages within the first year with Maria ($170 value)
Herbs as needed: pregnancy tea, postpartum sitz bath herbs
Newborn craniosacral and dynamic body balancing at postpartum visits (priceless)
“Midwifery care is not just about making someone feel good and at ease. It is also, and perhaps even more importantly, an opportunity to assist with acknowledging and cultivating resilience as an important resource for the birth process. It should not be controversial to say that joy and grief, as well as birth and death, are part of life.”
-Nicole Moralis & Jamie Mossay
excerpt from ‘Restorative Midwifery: A birthworker’s guide to becoming’
