Believe Midwifery Services L.L.C.

Maternity Services

• Preconception counseling
• Laboratory testing (certified CLIA waived testing)
• Waterbirth
• Normal newborn care through 6 weeks of age 
• 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, including IUD placement
• Peri-menopause and menopause
• Confidential testing for sexually transmitted infections

Primary Health Care

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

Believe Midwifery Services, LLC offers complete childbirth, newborn and well-woman care for healthy women and their families.  Complementary iInterviews are provided twice a month allowing families to meet with the midwife, ask questions and tour the office.  A packet of information will also be provided.

The first prenatal visit follows your interview and request to join the practice.  Upon this visit a detailed healthy history and head-to-toe exam is provided, in addition to introducing you to our practice and briefly discussing lifestyle choices that will help to optimize your pregnancy outcome.  Each visit from then forward will offer prenatal care and risk assessment with teaching and counsel on important aspects of wellness, encourging a healthy pregnancy, a joyful birth and wellness throughout the family's lifecycle. 

Prenatals are scheduled each month through your thirty-second week of pregnancy, then twice monthly through your forty-first week of pregnancy.  After forty-one weeks, you would meet with the midwife twice a week to assess for both maternal and fetal well-being.  Prenatals are scheduled for thirty minutes, with exception of the initial visit and postpartum visits, both at an hour.

The thirty-six week visit will be conducted in your home by a Believe Midwifery Services, LLC birth assistant.  She will not only provide a prenatal session, but request a tour of your birthing environment, assess your supplies and discuss roles and emergency provisions. 

Childbirth takes place in the client's home with a Nurse Midwife and at least one birth assistant in attendance.  Emergency equipment will be provided by the Nurse 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 primary birth assistant will then visit you in your home on the second or third day, assisting with any breastfeeding challenges and providing needed assessments, testing, and teaching for both mom and baby.  You will be visited again in your home between day five and seven.  Follow-up visits will then occur in the office at two and six weeks.

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, and making proper home preparations for the birth of their child.  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 website.  Believe Midwifery Services, LLC, 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.   

"If we believe that every woman has the right to receive care from a midwife, then the practice of midwifery must encompass all women regardless of their normalcy or risk status, the setting in which they receive their care, or the practices within that setting.  We must recognize that, as individuals, each of us differs in what we choose to do and that it is acceptable to differ...Real midwifery is "with woman," wherever she may be, in whatever circumstances she may be in, in whatever condition her pregnancy, in whatever health care system (Burst, 1990)."