As members of Prima Medical Group, the Midwives of Marin are pleased to offer a practice that fully integrates the midwifery model of
care throughout your entire pregnancy, including
prenatal care in our Prima OBGYN offices and
during your birth experience at Marin General Hospital's
Family Birth Center.
These outcomes are to: increase access to
prenatal care, reduce smoking
during pregnancy and afterward; prevent child abuse and neglect, increase parent knowledge of early childhood development, strengthen the home environment; increase access to medical home; increase
family support; and increase community connectedness.
During the
prenatal and infant periods,
families have been identified on the basis of socioeconomic risk (parental education, income, age8, 11) and / or other
family (e.g. maternal depression) or child (e.g. prematurity and low birth weight12) risks; whereas with preschoolers a greater emphasis has been placed on the presence of child disruptive behaviour, delays in language / cognitive impairment and / or more pervasive developmental delays.6 With an increased emphasis on
families from lower socioeconomic strata, who typically face multiple types of adversity (e.g. low parental educational attainment and work skills, poor housing, low social support, dangerous neighbourhoods), many parenting programs have incorporated components that provide support for parents» self -
care (e.g. depression, birth - control planning), marital functioning and / or economic self - sufficiency (e.g. improving educational, occupational and housing resources).8, 13,14 This trend to broaden the scope of «parenting» programs mirrors recent findings on early predictors of low - income children's social and emotional skills.