Montrice Doula support offers familles continuity of care by seeing one midwife throughout pregnancy in collaborative care with their OB.

—Hour-long prenatal visits including opportunities for client questions, counseling and education by midwife and clinical assessment

—24-Hour On-Call access to midwife (Text/Call, After-Hr appointments)

—Nutrition and supplement counseling

—Monitoring of your vitals

—Monitoring of baby’s heart rate, growth pattern and position

—Emotional support

—Options, advise and resources

—Gentle, judgement-free, confidential care at all times

— Education regarding routine testing and procedures in pregnancy and birth

— Create hospital birth plan

Montrice Doula Support marries traditional midwifery care with hospital doula support, for clients who want the ‘midwifery model of care’ but prefer to deliver in a hospital. Licensed midwives do not practice in a hospital setting, however when a midwife is practicing in a doula role, clients receive excellent support and advocacy, as well as the benefit of laboring at home longer and traveling to the hospital to give birth which reduces the risk of unnecessary interventions.

—Gentle presence, care and support that promote physiological birth

—Supporting partner as coach

—Massage

—Position suggestions

—Emotional and physical support

—Monitoring contraction pattern

— Monitoring baby’s heart rate and position

— Intermittent fetal heart monitoring using Dopper

—Monitoring maternal vitals and wellbeing

— Vaginal examination to assess dilation

— Emotional support and advocacy upon hospital admission throughout labor + delivery

—Support with initial breastfeeding after delivery

—Postpartum visits up to 1, 2, 4, & 6 wks postpartum

—Physical and emotional support

— Weighing baby and routine vitals

— Maternal vitals and assessing wellbeing

— On going breastfeeding support

— Return to fertility awareness

— Pap + Well Woman care