It all starts with:
Prenatal Care:
Prenatal care visits are typically 45-90 minutes and encompass the varying layers of experience that pregnancy unfolds before us. Whether it is your first or sixth pregnancy, there is so much to discover. Prenatal care can be so much more than checking vitals, doing labs and listening to the baby’s heartbeat. I also want to check in with how you are integrating into this experience and how your family dynamic might be shifting. We may work through a protocol of herbs to strengthen your immune system or preventative herbs to help mitigate experiences from previous pregnancies. Trauma informed and family centered care is at the heart of my support, as it puts the power in the families hands to make informed decisions that work best for them.
All Prenatal care visits are included in the global Midwifery fee. Midwifery care can begin at any point in pregnancy, but the more time we have to co-create, the better!
They are offered:
0-28 Weeks of Pregnancy: Visit once a month | 28-36 Weeks of Pregnancy: Visit once every 2 weeks
36-40 Weeks of Pregnancy: Weekly visits | 40-42 Weeks of Pregnancy: Visits twice a week
Late to Care
Sometimes families need to begin prenatal care after 28 weeks gestation- whether it be due to travel or switching care providers. We can collaborate on catching you up on all of the education, preparation, and possibly lab work so that everything is in place for birthing! When families are beginning care in the third trimester, the schedule of prenatal visits will be more frequent, depending on each individual circumstance.
Birth In Your Power and Freely
I invite you to experience sovereign home birth rooted in your inner knowing and autonomy. I support physiological and undisturbed birth, offering my presence, encouragement, love and reassurance as an ANCHOR for you to have the birth that you want and that is most aligned for you and your family.
The contemporary concept of Midwifery encompasses tools that weren’t previously accessible to the Midwives in many of our lineages. In Texas, Midwifery licensure grants us the ability to carry tools such as Oxygen, IV fluids, antibiotics, and medications. We have the previous generations and especially the Granny and Indigenous Midwives to honor, in carrying the knowledge of herbs and supportive techniques forward.
There may be times around birth where one of these tools are required, and I am prepared to support you if the need arises, but only if it is needed.
By reclaiming birth as a rite of passage, we are able to embrace ALL the experience as a WHOLE. Pregnancy is a tremendous opportunity to go deeper embracing both the light and the shadow within, the uncomfortable bits of ourselves that will help us to uncover and release fears, doubts and even past trauma. Birth is a threshold through which no one comes out unchanged. You will be transformed by it. Birth is raw, primal and not an experience of the logical and thinking mind.