Hospital Birth

Delivering a baby in the hospital gives a woman access to a full health care team including doctors and nurses. Hospitals have more extensive options for pain management than the out of hospital choices. Women are provided a more controlled approach to maternal health care.

Benefits

Prenatal care with a midwife reduces:

prenatal discomforts
fear surround birth
need for pain management
less intervention
c-section rates
postpartum anxiety and depression

Prenatal care with a midwife improves:

health for mother
health for baby
birth outcomes
breastfeeding initiation and longevity
family bonding

Prenatal care with a out-of-hospital midwife:

Focus on nutrition. Nutrition is the foundation of prenatal care and greatly affects birth outcomes and need for intervention. It improves health during pregnancy, baby, labor, delivery, and postpartum.
Focus on mental health. Many women struggle with prenatal anxiety, depression, mood swings, and changes throughout pregnancy. Addressing mental health leads to approaching labor without fear, increase in bonding with baby, and reduces postpartum depression.
Focus on activity. Women should be active throughout pregnancy. Exercise in pregnancy reduces back and pelvic pain, increases better quality sleep, fewer complications in labor, and increases recovery postpartum.
Focus on informed consent. Women are provided the information on all testing, medications provided during labor, and newborn screenings. Women are given the risks and benefits to items offered throughout pregnancy, labor, and postpartum. The family is able to make an informed, educated, and evidence based decisions about every step of their journey.
Focus on support. Our midwife will discuss all the options provided in a hospital birth. We will help create a birth plan and discuss options for the newborn.

Having a healthy pregnancy is one of the best ways to promote a healthy birth. Access to early and regular prenatal care improves the chances of a healthy pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. The average time frame a woman spends in prenatal care with typical obstetrical care is 5-8 minutes face-to-face with her provider. With our midwives, you have an hour of time face-to-face.

Hospital Birth

Benefits

Prenatal care with a out-of-hospital midwife:

Focus on nutrition. Nutrition is the foundation of prenatal care and greatly affects birth outcomes and need for intervention. It improves health during pregnancy, baby, labor, delivery, and postpartum.

Focus on mental health. Many women struggle with prenatal anxiety, depression, mood swings, and changes throughout pregnancy. Addressing mental health leads to approaching labor without fear, increase in bonding with baby, and reduces postpartum depression.

Focus on activity. Women should be active throughout pregnancy. Exercise in pregnancy reduces back and pelvic pain, increases better quality sleep, fewer complications in labor, and increases recovery postpartum.

Focus on support. Our midwife will discuss all the options provided in a hospital birth. We will help create a birth plan and discuss options for the newborn.