Wildwood Midwifery

Home birth is a wonderful, safe option for people with low-risk pregnancies, whether this is your first time giving birth or your fifth. Wildwood Midwifery’s home birth package includes comprehensive prenatal, birth, postpartum, and well-baby care.

Initial consultations are complimentary.

holistic Prenatal Care

Prenatal visits follow the standard schedule, taking place every 4 weeks until the 28th week of pregnancy, every 2 weeks until the 36th week, and weekly until labor begins. Visits take place in Lucy’s home office and typically run for 60 minutes. This allows plenty of time to answer questions and thoroughly check in the well being of both parent & baby.

Other aspects of holistic prenatal care include:

• Lab tests & blood work

• Informed choice discussions & handouts about standard screening & testing options during pregnancy, including Gestational Diabetes and Group Beta Strep

• Referrals for ultrasound and genetic screening

• Exercise, nutrition, and herbal medicine counseling

• Medical consultation if issues arise that are out outside of the midwifery scope of practice

• Referrals to other care practitioners, as desired/requested, such as massage therapists, acupuncturists, counselors, cranial sacral therapists, chiropractors, doulas, physicians, etc.

• Text, phone, and email availability in between appointments

Labor & Birth

Labor & birth with Wildwood Midwifery includes:

• Home birth between 37 and 42 weeks

• Continuous support & medical care through active labor, birth, and the first 2-4 hours postpartum

• Two licensed midwives at every birth

• Regular monitoring of mother & baby’s well being throughout labor to ensure low-risk status, health, and safety

• Guidance through the normal birth process and intervention when issues arise outside of what is considered normal

• Birth tub set-up & take-down for hydrotherapy in labor or water birth

• Facilitation of transfer to hospital care, whether prenatally, in labor, or postpartum

• Head to toe newborn exam, as well as administration of Vitamin K and/or Erythromycin, depending on a family’s choices

Postpartum & well baby care

Postpartum and well baby care services include 6 visits over the course of 6 weeks (1 day, 3 day, 1 wk, 2 wks, 4 wks, and 6 wks post-birth). The first 3 visits take place in the comfort of your home. The goal of postpartum care is to assess and support your medical recovery from birth, as well as the healthy growth & well being of your baby.

Postpartum care includes:

• Breast care, lactation support, weight checks for baby, latch & tongue tie assessments

• Well-baby care, including jaundice screening, care of the umbilical cord, vitals, metabolic screening

• Birth certificate, social security card paperwork, and commemorative footprints

• Mother/parent’s physical recovery from birth

• Prevention & screening for postpartum anxiety & depression

• Nutritional support, sleeping patterns, postnatal exercises

• Family planning and contraception counseling

• Well woman exam, pelvic floor assessment, & pap smear offered at final visit

• Resources to other care practitioners, as desired/requested (massage therapists, acupuncturists, counselors, cranial sacral therapists, chiropractors, postpartum doulas, physicians, etc.)

• On-call text, phone, and email availability in between appointments