Believe Midwifery Services

Maternity Services

• Preconception counseling
• CenteringPregnancy
• Laboratory Testing
• Waterbirth
• Newborn physical exam
• Postpartum home visits
• Breastfeeding support
• Postpartum office visits at two and six weeks
• Web Baby Book

Lactation Services

• Lactation Consultations 
• Nursing mothers support group
• Retail

Well-Woman Gynecological Services

• Annual gynecological exam and Pap smear
• Breast exam
• Family planning
• Peri-menopause and menopause

Primary Health Care

• Nutrition counseling
• Annual physicals
• Laboratory testing
• Common health concerns

Believe offers complete childbirth, newborn and well-woman care for healthy women and their families.  Each quarter, an open house is available for families to explore our practice and ask questions, free of cost. 

The first prenatal visit is entirely information, in which we share our practice and build a collaborative relationship.  The second visit begins our health assessment, with full medical history and physical exam.  Following the second visit, at approximately sixteen weeks gestation, families within the practice with the same expected birth month, will meet together for the continuation of their pregnancies.

Each month through the thirty-second week, each prenatal group will meet for two hour sessions with time for personal health assessment, individual evaluations with the Nurse Midwife, and group discussion with two members of the Believe staff facilitating. 

Upon thirty-two weeks, prenatal groups will begin meeting every other week through childbirth and the early postpartum period.  A private home visit however, will occur at thirty-six weeks in which the birth team will gather in your home in final preparation for your birth. 

Childbirth takes place in the client's home with a Nurse Midwife and birth assistant in attendance.  Emergency equipment will be provided by the Nurse Midwife, as well as a celebration bath complete with flowers, herbs, essential oils and candles for both mom and baby.  Your birth team will share your joyous birth in thoughtful story and present you with a beautiful birth announcement you can treasure as a lifelong keepsake of your miraculous event.   

Appropriate physician collaboration will have been pre-arranged by the client and midwife.  After the birth, the Nurse Midwife and birth assistant will stay with the family until she and her baby are stable, customarily between three and twelve hours.  The following day, the birth assistant will call you at home to evaluate your needs and healing.  The Nurse Midwife will then visit you in your home on the second day, assisting with any breastfeeding challenges and providing needed assessments, testing, and teaching for both mom and baby.  The birth assistant will visit you in your home between day three and five.  Follow-up visits will then occur in the office at two and six weeks, with the group's postpartum celebration.

Due to the nature of homebirth, expectant couples must be active participants throughout all steps of care during their childbearing year.  They must assume personal responsibility for their own well-being, including optimal nutrition and lifestyle choices, educating themselves throughout, making proper home preparations for the birth of their child and securing a physician consult for both mother and baby.  Should unexpected needs for medical assistance arise, the couple must be willing to transport for medical care in a hospital.  Your Nurse Midwife will accompany you until you are confident you are stable and comfortable.

Each family within the practice will have the opportunity to post a digital photograph of their newest family member on the practice's web site.  Believe Midwifery Services has coordinated with several professionals within the immediate area to offer special services in effort to celebrate the birth of your precious child.  These services include newborn pictures with a professional photographer with photo sessions conveniently scheduled along side your prenatal and/or postpartum visits, a personal chef available for cooking a private celebratory meal during your early postpartum days, and maid services to complete your nesting tasks.  

Believe Midwifery Services additionally has relationships with massage therapists, chiropractors, doulas and physicians, who would be happy to assist you and your family throughout your pregnancy, birth and early parenting needs.   

Retail

Maya Wraps are available for sale for $39.95.  Choose your favorite pattern and style.

Spa-in-a-Box tub rental.  We will set the tub up in your home two weeks prior to your expected date of delivery.  Enjoy, at your leisure, then we will disassemble the day following your birth.  Tub rentals are $250.

Pregnancy Teas are available for a dollar.  Each one is made from organic herbs. 

More to come!!!