HOMEBIRTH
First Love Midwifery offers comprehensive Home Birth Midwifery Care that includes prenatal, birth, & postpartum care. We provide evidence-based care, offering shared decision making, & informed consent and refusal. In addition to standard maternity care, we will spend time discussing physical & emotional needs, as well as the well-being of you & your baby. To keep you ‘low risk’, we focus on nutrition, lifestyle, optimal fetal position, as well as recommendations & referrals for additional support & alternative medicine throughout pregnancy & post-partum. First Love Midwifery's Complete Home Birth Midwifery Care includes:
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1-hr in home visits
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Routine prenatal visits
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Multiple post-partum visits for mom & baby
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Standard prenatal blood work
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Birthing tub rental
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Birth Assistant/2nd Midwife for the birth
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Post-partum breastfeeding support
We come to you for all our hour-long prenatal visits. Our visits are scheduled monthly until 28 weeks, every 2 weeks until 36 weeks, then weekly until birth. We bring all the necessary equipment to check vitals and listen to your baby. We discuss all things pregnancy & birth and strongly encourage all the questions! Partners, kids (humans & pets) & other family members are always welcome to join.
PRENATAL CARE
Laboring & giving birth in the comfort of your own home gives you the freedom to birth the way you want on your own time. We monitor you & baby intermittently and offer additional tools if needed. As long as you & baby are otherwise healthy and medically able to stay home, we let labor/birth unfold naturally. After baby is born we stay on average 3-5hours; we evaluate and monitor you & baby, we clean up, feed you, & tuck you into bed.
LABOR & BIRTH
Water birth is an option for all our home birth clients. There are so many benefits to laboring & birthing your baby in water, including relaxation, pain relief, minimize perineal tearing, & and gentle transition for your baby from water into water. Learn more about the benefits & current data on water birth. Birth tub rental is included in our care.
WATER BIRTH
Postpartum care is just as vital as your prenatal care. We see you & baby several times after birth (24-hours, 3-5 days, 1 week, 2 week, 4 weeks, 6-8 weeks post part). Midwives are also able to care for Normal Newborns up to 6 weeks, however we strongly encourage you to establish care with a Pediatrician. We continue to evaluate mom & baby to ensure everyone healing, thriving, and transitioning well.
