Natural Prenatal Care
We offer personalized care tailored to YOU! You are welcome to come experience first-hand our natural approach to prenatal care. This is where we offer space for you to learn the physiological process of labor and birth, express your desires, and share your fears.
Next, appointments are an hour long and can take place in office, your home or as tele-health. Together, over a period of time we build a trusting relationship and a solid birth team. Our cornerstone of comprehensive care is one of shared decision-making.
- 1st appointment around 8 weeks thru 28 weeks are as monthly appointments.
- 28 weeks thru 36 weeks are as bi-monthly appointments -every two weeks.
- 36 weeks to your birth of baby are as weekly appointments.
- 24-hour access to your midwife.
- Health/pregnancy history & risk assessment.
- Nutritional guidance, complimentary & alternative modalities.
- Required & indicated lab work support.
- Urinalysis per-prenatal & blood pressure monitoring.
- Fetal heart tone assessment & position of baby.
Referral for Outside Care
- Diagnostic sonogram.
- Consulting physician as Indicated.
Labor & Birth
Home birth has advantage of blending modern and traditional style of practice. This offers families the latest complementary modalities of today. It supports you to give birth naturally, by offering encouragement, positional suggestions, and relaxation techniques.
Now this is premium care!
- Family are welcome, we encourage involvement throughout labor and birth.
- Full clinical assessment of maternal, and fetal well-being throughout labor and birth.
- Comfort measures include positional guidance, massage, pressure points, and hydrotherapy. Often with use of essential oils-herbals and more.
- Techniques to avoid perineal laceration.
- Perineal assessment to facilitate-obtain repair using advanced skills, or choice of additional natural healing modalities
Immediate Postpartum
- Delayed cord clamping to allow transition of baby to breath on their own. This allows blood volume transference, to go from placenta to baby
- Immediate and continuous skin to-skin contact touch, with mother and baby, to promote bonding and breastfeeding.
- Comprehensive newborn examination.
- Breastfeeding latch-on support.
- Therapeutic herbal/essential oil bath for mother and baby, to promote bonding & healing postpartum.
- Birth attendants are current with Neonatal Resuscitation and CPR certifications. We carry oxygen and immediate resuscitation equipment.
- Assessment of blood loss with access to anti-hemorrhage medication, or remedy.
- Optional IV fluids, or IV anti-biotics.
- Optional Erythromycin eye ointment, or vitamin K for your newborn.
Specialty Birth Care
- Vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) with informed consent.
- Vaginal Breech -after referral, with informed consent.
- Water Birth –visit our page for more information
Natural Postpartum Care
Immediate postpartum, often reffered to as the golden hour, is a sacred time. This is where bonding ensues resulting with you and your newborn falling in love. It’s a perfect time for initiating breastfeeding. Next, we complete our assessments on you and baby -we tidy up your space. After, we tuck you snuggly into bed for continued bonding and rest.
Follow Up Care
- Your Follow-up care appointments: first postpartum home visit within 48-72 hours, remaining appointments in office at 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 6 weeks postpartum.
- Newborn examination with weight check & breastfeeding support, occur each appointment
- Assessment -follow up of mothers physiological & emotional well-being.
- First postpartum checkup has optional newborn metabolic screening.
- Documentation of birth certificate and social security filed with the state vital records department.
Have a question about services?
Call Direct 469-961-9933
Herbal Bath
A Celebration Bath Just for You!
The day you give birth is a special day, one with cause for a celebration bath. What better way to begin anew, by soaking in a luxe-style herbal bath. We understand your journey has been long. You grew your precious baby in your womb for months, labored tirelessly, and have given birth. Now it’s your time to rest, heal and bond with baby.
Next, let’s chat about your care desires and how that may look, maybe it can be an herbal or milk bath, with essential oils and florals. To learn more about herbal bath benefits, or posh features we offer visit our blog here by clicking link: