Your midwife is on call 24/7 for your home birth before and after your due date. She provides complete labor and birth support in your home. Your birth team will consist of two licensed midwives Emma and her assistant. During labor, we monitor the well-being of the client and baby and use intermittent fetal heart rate monitoring with a hand-held doppler. We offer water birth, and we have birth pools included in your midwifrey package. At births, we are present to think quickly when changes need to be made to protect the well-being of the client and/or baby, but most of the time we are simply quiet witnesses to the physiological process of birth. We provide immediate postpartum care for at least 2-3 hours after the birth, until both the client and baby are stable, breastfeeding is established, and we have completed a full newborn exam.

—Gentle presence, care and support that promote physiological birth

—Supporting partner as coach

—Massage + comfort measures

—Position suggestions

—Water birth pool

—Birth stool

—Emotional and physical support

—Monitoring contraction pattern

— Monitoring baby’s heart rate and position

—Monitoring maternal vitals and wellbeing

—Skilled handling of the birth to prevent tears and unnecessary trauma or pain

—Supporting either parent to catch baby

—Delayed cord clamping

—Newborn exam, weight and measurement

—Breastfeeding support

—Assessment of tears and medicated suture repair

—Quiet and unobtrusive monitoring in the hours immediately following birth

—Promoting family bonding

Medical support during birth as needed

—Oral or injectable Vitamin K (for baby)

—Sutures + Numbing medication

— Antibiotics

—Rhogam therapy

—Oxygen

—Anti-hemorrhage medication

—IV therapy

—Newborn Resuscitation Equipment

—Herbs

—Homeopathy