Why Choose a Midwife?

2. You'll feel the security and comfort of a familiar environment.

3. You'll know that you are free to be yourself throughout the whole process of giving birth. You can do whatever you feel like doing, move around as you wish, give birth in any position you choose, and make any noises that come spontaneously.

4. You'll experience no interventions at all: either high-tech obstetric ones, or others that are often done routinely in hospitals, such as artificial rupture of the membranes.

5. You'll be able to labor without drugs of any kind and explore other ways of handling pain.

6. You'll know that those caring for you are guests rather than managers, and that you'll be making decisions together rather than having decisions imposed on you.

7. You'll enjoy a relationship of equality with those caring for her.

8. You'll have a midwife birth rather than an obstetric delivery.

9. You'll share intimately with others who are close to you, enjoying a sense of loving community.

10. You can keep the family together and have the other children there or close by.

11. You'll avoid an episiotomy and perhaps achieve an intact perineum.

12. You'll never be separated from the baby.

13. You'll have an after birth that is personal and intimate and very different from what you would experience in an institution.  

2. Breastfeeding support

3. Well woman care

A regular hospital birth can cost over $10,000, whereas a birth with an out-of-hospital midwife can cost much less. Call us to discuss pricing.