~Homebirth & Midwife services~
What we offer
Firstly, we offer a God centered, woman honoring EXPERIENCE . Not simply “care”.
We want to build an honorable relationship with you and your family, whether you have 20 appointments, or 1 appointment.
Your midwife has given birth 9 times, and actively raises a God fearing family.
Having navigated so many aspects of family, birth, traditional midwifery, God, and life- the care you receive will encompass more than simply prenatals and birth.
Our team really knows how to give you everything you need for a complete experience.
Our goal is to build up your experience into what you believe God ordained for your pregnancy, and what we believe God ordained for us as midwives, and what you need to feel safe and in touch with your pregnancy and your birth.
(This includes from your midwives, a standard of love, honor, respect, guidance, prayer, trust, protection, advocacy, and a mutual love for God)
We honor the design and the faith in our body’s creation for this task.
We honor our fertility as sacred, and treat every woman and her children, as the gifts that they are.
We honor the design of large families, of childrearing, and value every single life from conception.
We actively encourage mother and father led labors and care, with the pregnant woman being the decision maker in ALL of her care options.
“WHAT DOES THIS LOOK LIKE IN CARE? “
Flexible scheduling, including night and weekend appointments.
Convenient office location (Tannersville or Trexlertown PA) or home appointments available.
We want you to have all of the aspects of care you desire on a timeline that fits your needs and wants.
When you need a last minute visit, we will make it happen.
When you need a call or text, we will be there for you.
Client Guided, God centered Prenatal Care
This means you make all of the decisions as prayerfully and as timely as YOU need!
During prenatal care, the woman and her family lead care.
We spend time discussing all the aspects of health, diet, exercise, breastfeeding, baby care, and raising family, as well as the standard obstetrical care options, and how they fit for your needs and health.
We actively teach the aspects and design of pregnancy, labor, and birth-
because as women, it is our obligation to teach this to our next generation,
and this knowledge is sacred, and protects our generations from the adversary.
When you make decisions for your care, we want you to feel fully informed, supported, and know that we can prayerfully and intuitively make these decisions as pregnant women, without coercion, fear, or force.
Love your OB? KEEP THEM!
Self care prenatals? ABSOLUTLEY! I will teach you!!
Full service care from start to finish? We’re happy to do it all!
No testing desired? No Problem!
Lab work, ultrasounds, and standard prenatal testing for mom and newborn, are all included at the parent’s discretion. ALL TESTING IS OPTIONAL!
Labor & Delivery- as hands on or hands off as you desire.
Parents are encouraged at their discretion and desire, to guide the aspects of their care,
whether to catch their own baby, to weigh their own baby, or complete any care for themselves and their newborn with the guidance they need or request from their midwife.
This may look like a hands off or unassisted delivery with your midwife present, delivering your own placenta, or participating in the newborn exam. The choice is always yours.
Our team is very gentle and quiet, and will ask your consent before even touching your belly to listen to your baby.
We do NOT do routine vaginal exams, we do NOT put time limits on labor, we do not risk out at 42 weeks, and we do not discuss any aspects of your care in secret.
Everything belongs to you, and we are a collaborative team, the family and the midwives.
During delivery, we encourage parents to catch and meet their baby on their terms, with or without help.
We keep the cord intact until the placenta is delivered, and baby stays on your chest for the first hour or longer!
ALL EXAMS ARE DONE WHILE YOU HOLD OR SIT NEXT TO YOUR BABY, AND ALL EXAMS CAN BE DONE BY THE PARENTS if they choose.
We are happy to walk you through all of it.
Family oriented and involved care. Children and family members are invited at the parents discretion.
Children are encouraged to participate in pregnancy care, and labor support, at their comfort level.
Birth planning & Childbirth education
With a focus on Gods design for labor, and your dreams, fears, and desires for your birth.
This can include hospital childbirth ed if needed.
On-call Homebirth services- 24/7 on call services, including holidays.
Labor and birth attendance by a qualified team (midwife and 1 OR 2 assistants)
2- 4 hours of immediate postpartum care, including a complete newborn exam, postpartum care for newborn and birthing woman, emergency care as needed, and referrals.
A DIFFERENT SPECIALTY & SET OF SKILLS.
We actively study and utilize traditional midwifery practices, and midwifery wisdom generations old, and from around the world. We believe that the standard obstetrical model & traditional wisdom can be used in compliment to one another, for the best outcomes and the best experience.
Birth tub use for waterbirth at no charge.
We have several La Bassine tubs, both large and small.
Birth certificate & social security filing services included if desired.
Newborn screenings included if desired.
Postpartum care, in home appointments for mother and baby.
BILLING SERVICES
For reimbursement with out of network maternity coverage
WHAT YOU PAY
Fees start at $8000
WITH PAYMENT ARRANGEMENTS AND POTENTIAL INSURANCE REIMBURSEMENT
MILITARY FAMILY DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE
*Discounts and barter arrangements are available - please ask -
STUDENT MIDWIVES AND ASSISTANTS
We actively employ qualified student midwives as homebirth assistants.
We are honored and hopeful, to change the old dynamic of “unpaid apprenticeships” for qualified, hardworking birth workers.
While we do not currently offer fulltime apprenticeships, we do offer qualified student midwives to work as assistants.
Therefore, our birth assistants are often student midwives with specific experience and qualifications, and are paid to attend your labor and birth as a qualified assistant should be.
This is a value to the client, as certain student midwives often have more clinical experience than birth assistants. It is a value to the midwife, to have a second qualified attendant with clinical skills, and importantly, it is a value to the community of student midwives, and to the traditional model of “each one, teach one”, and midwifery traditions of sharing ancient wisdom.
You may opt out of student attendance, or student clinical care, at any time with private consent forms.