Her practice offers full - scale midwifery care for women who choose to birth at home,
including prenatal visits, home birth, and postpartum visits.
Services are on call for weeks before and after the due date, and usually
include prenatal visits to prepare for the birth, attendance during labor, and some postpartum follow up as well as other services such as attendance (or teaching) childbirth classes, birth photography, birth story writing, and various other keepsakes or services offered individually.
Not exact matches
Comprehensive Lactation Package ($ 385): This package
includes three of our most popular lactation services that help you establish your goals, make a plan, and meet those goals after your baby is born by
including: a
prenatal visit, a home
visit and an in - office
visit.
Topics covered
include: Introduction to doula labor support; Importance of birth memories; Hormones of pregnancy, labor, and birth; Emotional support for birth; Communication skills, values, and cultural sensitivity as a doula; Physical support for birth; Doula's role with interventions, Cesarean and VBAC; Doula's role during immediate postpartum and with the newborn; Breastfeeding support; DONA certification process and membership;
Prenatal and postpartum doula
visits; Setting up your doula business and birth community involvement.
Basic Birth Doula support
includes 2
prenatal meetings, on - call status from time of hire, exceptional resources, unlimited educated and professional encouragement, active birth support and 2 postpartum
visits including 4 hours of in - home nurturing care from your Postpartum Doula.
Prenatal Care: 2 - 3 visits are included and packed full of prenatal advice, childbirth education, and help creating a bir
Prenatal Care: 2 - 3
visits are
included and packed full of
prenatal advice, childbirth education, and help creating a bir
prenatal advice, childbirth education, and help creating a birth plan.
Prenatal care
includes monthly
visits that commence at approximately week 10 - 12 and continue every 3 - 4 weeks until week 30.
Basic Birth Doula support
includes 2
prenatal meetings, on - call status from time of hire, exceptional resources, unlimited educated and professional encouragement, active birth support and 2 postpartum
visits including 4 hours of nurturing care that comes from a Postpartum Doula.
Our doula fee
includes unlimited email, text and phone conversations, two
prenatal visits, support during your labor and one postpartum
visit.
Each Issaquah Doula typically spends upwards of 18 hours with each of their clients with
prenatal and postnatal
visits including the duration of the birth.
At each
prenatal visit you can expect time to have your questions answered, discussion around topics relevant to your current stage of pregnancy, clinical care
including having your blood pressure and pulse taken, having your midwife palpate your baby, measure your fundal height, listen to your baby's heart beat, and time to catch up on whats been going on in your life and how you are feeling about your pregnancy.
We used multivariable logistic - regression models to adjust for potential confounders,
including maternal race or ethnic group (non-Hispanic white vs. other), parity (nulliparous vs. multiparous), insurance status (public or none vs. other), extent of
prenatal care (≥ 5
visits vs. < 5
visits), advanced maternal age (≥ 35 years vs. < 35 years), maternal education (> 12 years vs. ≤ 12 years), history or no history of cesarean delivery, and a composite marker of conditions that confer increased medical risk.
The highest rates of breastfeeding are observed among higher - income, college - educated women > 30 years of age living in the Mountain and Pacific regions of the United States.60 Obstacles to the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding
include physician apathy and misinformation,61 - 63 insufficient
prenatal breastfeeding education, 64 disruptive hospital policies, 65 inappropriate interruption of breastfeeding, 62 early hospital discharge in some populations, 66 lack of timely routine follow - up care and postpartum home health
visits, 67 maternal employment68, 69 (especially in the absence of workplace facilities and support for breastfeeding), 70 lack of broad societal support, 71 media portrayal of bottle - feeding as normative, 72 and commercial promotion of infant formula through distribution of hospital discharge packs, coupons for free or discounted formula, and television and general magazine advertising.73, 74
All
prenatal and well - infant
visits should
include questions about the home water supply.
These topics
include: maternal health,
prenatal and infant / child oral health, newborn screening, infant mortality, home
visiting, pediatric emergency care, child safety, school - based health, children's healthy weight, adolescent and young adult health, and environmental health.
The study
includes: an analysis of the state needs assessments that were provided in the state MIECHV applications and an effectiveness study that
includes an impact analysis to measure what difference home
visiting programs make for the at - risk families they serve in areas such as
prenatal, maternal, and newborn health; child development; parenting; domestic violence; and referrals and service coordination.
Birth Doula $ 1000 * Hospital Births, Birth Center births, Home Births, Cesarean Births:
includes a two
prenatal visits and one to two post-birth
visits, with birth plan review and car seat safety sessions.
We can assist with many, if not all, of your pregnancy - related medical bills,
including prenatal care, sonograms, lab work, doctor
visits, and delivery expenses.
His research interests
include examination of racial disparities in birth outcomes and child health; the adequacy and content of pre-conception,
prenatal and inter-conception care; child health services; home
visiting, child nutrition; fatherhood; and health data policy.
Prenatal visits are in my home office on a flexible schedule and are typically monthly through the second trimester, bi-weekly from 26 - 36 weeks, then weekly until birth,
including one
visit at your home in the last trimester.
The total fee of $ 5500
includes complete
prenatal, birth and postpartum care, newborn care at birth and all newborn screening tests, birth supplies (
including use of our complete birth pool kit) and a travel fee that allows your midwife to provide home
visits for
prenatal and postpartum care.
Most professional doulas offer their service for a flat - fee, which
includes an agreed - upon amount of
prenatal visits, 24/7 on - call time at the end of your pregnancy, support during your labor and birth (whether it's 3 or 43 hours) and at least one postpartum
visit.
For all women
included in the study, we collected data on their age, height, weight before pregnancy, body mass index, income quintile, drug and alcohol use (v. no use) during pregnancy, smoking status, status of parenthood (single v. other), parity, gestational age at first
prenatal visit, number of antenatal
visits and history of ultrasonography before 20 weeks» gestation.
LC intervention (n = 80): Two LCs were allocated to this intervention.The LC protocol
included 2
prenatal sessions, a hospital
visit, and regular phone calls postpartum for 3 months or until breastfeeding ceased.
Health care providers should be aware of community resources,
including prenatal lactation classes; lactation consultants; home
visiting providers; and support groups, such as La Leche League, WIC peer counselors, and phone support.
CenteringPregnancy group
prenatal care
includes the same components as individual
visits, but all care (with the exception of matters that require privacy) take place in a group setting.
Graduating family medicine residents have indicated they intend to provide a broader scope of practice than that reported by current family physicians,
including for
prenatal care, inpatient care, nursing home care, home
visits, and women's health procedures, according to a study in the December 8 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on medical education.
Includes FREE registration in my Birth At Home
prenatal classes with a modified
prenatal visit schedule
This report provides a snapshot of state efforts to promote
prenatal health and improve birth outcomes,
including but not limited to home
visiting.
Screening can be integrated, as recommended by Bright Futures and the AAP Mental Health Task Force, into the well - child care schedule and
included in the
prenatal visit.
The research provides less support for the effect of home
visiting programs on early health behaviors
including prenatal care, breastfeeding, or well - child
visits, or on reducing the use of harsh parenting.
The need to focus on prevention,
including continued investment in programs that promote
prenatal care, nutrition and parent education, as well as home
visiting, is underscored in the report.
This will
include (1) analysis of referral and enrollment bias among eligible, pregnant women, (2) analysis of dosage effect of
prenatal home
visiting on preterm birth risk and (3) analysis of effects of home
visiting on subsequent pregnancy spacing and preterm birth risk.
In their unique role working with families in their homes, home
visiting (HV) practitioners need specialized, research - based competencies that
include deep knowledge of family contexts,
prenatal health and development, and parent mental health and development.
The study
includes: an analysis of the state needs assessments that were provided in the state MIECHV applications and an effectiveness study that
includes an impact analysis to measure what difference home
visiting programs make for the at - risk families they serve in areas such as
prenatal, maternal, and newborn health; child development; parenting; domestic violence; and referrals and service coordination.
We are grateful to UCSF for providing the early
prenatal visits,
including getting to see our baby via ultrasound (wow) and for the plethora of screens and tests we opted for.
Summary: (To
include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) Volunteers and women recruited due to a risk factor were randomly assigned to one of conditions described below: 1) Sensory and developmental screening at 12 and 24 months only (control group); 2) Free transportation to regular
prenatal and perinatal
visits, and sensory and developmental screening at 12 and 24 months; 3) Nurse home visitation during pregnancy only, free transportation to regular
prenatal and perinatal
visits, and sensory and developmental screening at 12 and 24 months; or 4) Nurse home
visits until the child was 2 years old in addition to nurse home visitation during pregnancy, free transportation to regular
prenatal and perinatal
visits, and sensory and developmental screening at 12 and 24 months [now called Nurse Family Partnership (NFP)-RSB-.
Summary: (To
include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study attempted to determine the effect of
prenatal and infant / toddler nurse home
visiting [now called Nurse Family Partnership (NFP)-RSB- on maternal and child mortality during a 2 - decade period (1990 - 2011).
A report released by the D.C. auditor this summer estimates there are 6,300 households with children under 5 that would benefit from home -
visiting programs, based on risk - factor data
including poverty levels, access to
prenatal care and developmental delays.
Developed by Dr. Martha Edwards, it is designed to help parents promote their children's social and emotional development and school readiness through a curriculum that
includes a
prenatal component for expectant mothers, a group component for parents with their infant or toddler, a video review component, and a home
visiting component.
Improve child and family outcomes through
prenatal and postpartum supports and services for families with young children,
including maternal, infant and early childhood home
visiting.
This
includes efforts to improve child and family outcomes through
prenatal and postpartum supports and services for families with young children,
including maternal, infant and early childhood home
visiting.
The Schuyler Center works to educate communities and elected officials about the value of access to: high quality
prenatal and postpartum supports and services for families with young children,
including maternal, infant and early childhood home
visiting; and high - quality early care and learning.
Our study
included data from 3 surveys, the first of which was conducted with pregnant women at their first
prenatal clinic
visit after written consent.
Extensive data were collected on mothers» demographic characteristics, health history,
including maternal history of asthma,
prenatal and postnatal maternal psychological distress (anxiety, depression or stress), maternal social support (specifically the extent of partner / spouse support) and children's birth and health outcomes
including breastfeeding status (at 3 months) from the APrON surveys completed at
prenatal or postnatal clinic
visits or sent in by mail.
First, we examined the relationships of plausible covariates,
including gender, birth - weight, post-conceptual age on the
visit day (gestational age + days of life since birth to the
visit day), ethnicity,
prenatal smoking exposure, and child sleep condition at the time of EEG recording with outcome measures (frontal EEG power, functional connectivity at 6 and 18 months of age, or behavioral scores at 24 months of age).