Care package options:
Total Care, Homebirth package (most common choice)
The total package includes: Holistic prenatal care typically (but not always*) starting around ten to twelve weeks of pregnancy.
The total care package includes concierge home visits, referral to other holistic providers, labs drawn in the comfort of your home, referrals for ultrasound, on-call Midwife support, access to records 24/7, homebirth, free birth tub loan, postpartum care and lactation support and referrals as needed.
Later transfers into care are an option! Please fill out the contact me page to consult with the Midwife regarding a transfer into care with Illuminated Midwifery).
Early Pregnancy Care
Early pregnancy guidance ordering and interpreting labs, ordering and interpreting of ultrasounds, and medication support as needed from approximately four to ten weeks gestation.
You are not obligated to stay in Midwifery care and may opt to transfer to another provider. This package is to help families that need support with early care.
Planned Hospital Birth
Prenatal and postpartum Midwifery care for clients planning a hospital birth goes as such.
During pregnancy, you receive the benefits of midwifery care with longer, more in-depth appointments, education and holistic referrals. We Support families with planning the optimal birth with discussion of which hospital, whom will be on your birth team, your preferences etc. You receive significantly more face to face time with your midwife.
When in labor the family will go to the hospital with their doula or support people of choice (the midwife is not in attendance). Clients are provided care by the in house-staff hospital providers, usually nurse Midwives.
Clients deliver the baby in a supportive hospital setting. The hospital is one that is recommended by the midwife for clients that may desire less intervention than the typical hospital birth. Then, clients return to the Midwife for routine postpartum care.