No two women, pregnancy, labor, birth, or baby is identical: your care is uniquely designed to meet your needs and your hopes. Fully informed, you make choices that are right for you and your family. Supported by your midwives and guided by your intuition, we create space for exploration around pregnancy, preparing for birth, and the initiation into motherhood.

COMPREHENSIVE PRENATAL CARE: includes an initial health history, emotional biography, nutritional assessment, and lab work. Each appointment includes a thorough evaluation of mom and baby and an educational component. Discussions stem from readings, inquiries, and your unfolding journey through pregnancy.

Appointments are scheduled:*

• Every 4 weeks until 28 weeks
• Every 2 weeks from 28-36 weeks
• Weekly from 36 weeks until birth

LABOR AND HOMEBIRTH: On-call 24-hours a day to offer continuous labor support and facilitate your birth. The midwives remain in your home for several hours after your birth to ease your transition, monitor signs of wellness, and celebrate your new baby.

POSTPARTUM: Well woman and well baby care continues for 6 weeks after your birth. Care includes: full checkups of mom and baby, breastfeeding and new family support, fertility awareness or birth control counseling and pap smears as indicated.

*Our philosophy of holistic care manages discomforts and minor complications with nutrition, exercise, mindfulness practice, herbs, homeopathics, flower essences, and other alternative modalities for healing.

Our unique doula services incorporate our experience and skills as midwives. We offer dynamic physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual guidance to pregnant and laboring mothers. Designed specifically for women who are planning a natural childbirth in the hospital, we support this best by managing your labor at home: this includes listening to the baby and dilation checks when appropriate. Prenatal doula care weaves the following elements to create a unique plan that meets your hopes and needs.

Exploration: Through art, guided mediation, journaling, and celebration, we guide women through self-inquiry and reflection around pregnancy, preparing for birth, and the initiation into motherhood.

Information: As midwives, we carry in-depth knowledge around choices you have to make for your care and for your baby’s. Prenatals allow for in-depth discussion, so you are fully informed about your choices.

Connection: We are committed to supporting partners in their journey into parenting, as well as in their role as primary support to the laboring mama. Partners are invited to all prenatals, but one is specifically intended for their questions and to prepare them for their invaluable role.

The birth doula package includes:

• 3 Prenatal visits
• Email/phone availability throughout pregnancy
• On-call for labor and birth
• 1 Postpartum home visit

Comprehensive women centered care that addresses all aspects of wellness in the spirit of the midwifery model of care.

Services Available at your home:

• Pap Smears
• Blood work, as indicated
• Breast Exams, and Self Breast Exam Education
• STD testing
• Fertility awareness and family planning/birth control counseling
• Nutritional Assessment, with supplement recommendations

Celebrate the initiations of menstruation, pregnancy, and motherhood with midwife created and facilitated ceremonies.

BELLY CASTS: Capture the beauty of your pregnant belly: this can be done as a meditative experience or as a celebratory one with friends and family. It is best to cast after 36 weeks.

Blessingways: Blessingways are ceremonies designed to honor and celebrate a rite of passage. Each is uniquely created event that invites a women’s community to surround her, adorn her, pamper her, embrace her, and impart her with jewels of courage and words of wisdom.

Many consider the placenta to be a powerful and sacred medicine full of life force. Placenta medicine has been known to ward off the blues and postpartum depression, shorten bleeding time, restore and balance hormones, nourish the blood, replenish depleted iron, increase energy, boost immunity, enhance milk production, and generally reduce overall recovery time from labor and birth.

Using the Traditional Chinese Medicine Method, the placenta is steamed, dried, ground, and encapsulated. A placenta makes 150-250 capsules that can be used in the postpartum, during transitional times, and in menopause. Medicinal tincture, placenta prints, and cord keepsakes can also be created.

Placenta medicine is a lovely way to honor and preserve the energetic nature of the organ that nourished your baby in the womb.

For more information:

• Placenta Medicine: The Tree of Life
• Afterbirth: It’s What’s For Dinner
• Placenta Rituals From Around the World
• The Bridge of Life: Options For Placentas

Intended to honor the beauty of individual paths, while also creating opportunity to benefit from collective wisdom and the roots of powerful feminine spirit. Coming soon:

New Moon Seminar: a weekend specifically for adolescent girls. It is a circle of fun, friendship, and celebration, with a focus on building self-love and respect for our bodies and their changes.

Moon Cycles Seminar: a weekend for women, with focus on fertility awareness and self-nurturance around feminine cycles. This seminar is designed for women wanting to live in awareness with body, self, and the healing power of women’s circles: beneficial for those who want conceive and those trying not to.

Making tea for yourself or others is a sweet ritual and a gesture of love. Each of these teas is intended to bring awareness to a particular stage in a woman’s life cycle. They are tasty blends of loose-leaf herbs, antioxidants, and adaptogens that nourish and soothe body and soul. Best if steeped overnight; enjoy hot or cold.

Women’s Tea: uterine tonic, nourishing, cleansing, balancing, with spirit lifting adaptogens known to give you whatever you need.

Pregnancy Tea: Uterine tonic, nourishing, calming, and clearing. Specifically iron and vitamin K rich: excellent for easing nausea, enhancing hydration, and increasing vitamin and mineral intake.

Adolescent Tea: Uterine tonic, balancing, harmonizing: appeals to the senses with its berry flavor and floating flowers.

Menopause Tea: Balancing, calming, cooling, brings clarity and energy