Family Centered Homebirth, Woman Centered Care
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The everyday miracle of a beautiful birth is an experience to be cherished!
Women are innately and perfectly designed to give birth undisturbed, in their own natural environments. If you're interested in natural birth, then your own best birth will happen in a setting where you feel completely comfortable, with attendants who know you well and who respect the natural dynamics of undisturbed birth.
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If natural birth in a home setting appeals to you, consider contacting Mountain Family Midwifery to set up a free consultation about your options. Mountain Family Midwifery offers a safe, life-affirming journey through pregnancy and birth. Consistent, comprehensive, holistic care in pregnancy provides the foundation for beautiful birth experiences.
We provide care for a broad region of central Colorado, including the cities of Salida, Buena Vista, Leadville, Minturn, Vail, Frisco, Breckenridge, Fairplay, Alma, Hartsel, Canon City, Westcliffe, Cotopaxi, Howard, Crestone, Alamosa, Saguache, Gunnison and Crested Butte.
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Giving birth at our home was deeply empowering, yet also beautifully simple in a way that a hospital birth could never be.
~Buffy Lenth, mother of three
Why Midwifery Care?
Midwives support optimal health in childbirth through consistent, comprehensive deliberation of a woman’s physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.
Midwifery care recognizes pregnancy and childbirth as normal life events, not states of illness.
With attentive, personalized care, homebirth midwives support women, mothers, fathers and families in experiencing their own best births.
Why Homebirth?
Planned homebirth with a professional midwife has been clinically proven to be as safe or safer than hospital birth for low-risk women. When you birth at home with a midwife, there is significantly reduced risk of infection, episiotomies, cesarean birth and assisted birth with forceps/vacuum.
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2. You can labor and birth in the privacy and comfort of your own home, where there will be no strangers, unknown staff members or observers present.
3. No routine vaginal exams, no strict protocols in your care. Every woman’s and baby’s health is assessed individually, using evidence-based practices and procedures.
4. You have the education and freedom to choose which, if any, tests you and your baby receive. You won’t be pressured into routine testing or procedures.
5. Your labor won’t be induced to fit into institutional protocols or timelines. And if your pregnancy extends beyond 40, 41, 42 weeks, midwifery care recognizes that as NORMAL.
6. Mother and baby remain together after birth, which ensures your baby’s first hours of life are spent bonding and breastfeeding.
7. Midwifery care recognizes birth as a family-centered event, where dads and siblings are encouraged to be involved!
8. Warm, nurturing, personalized care in pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding. Longer prenatal visits allow for time to build an open and satisfying relationship built on trust and confidence. In-home postpartum visits mean you can relax with your new baby at home while resting during the first few weeks.
9. Movement in labor isn’t restricted, which allows for easier labors with less chance of a diagnosis of obstructed labor.
10.When you give birth naturally, at home, you’re teaching your children that birth is not a state of illness, but a natural state of being.
These Last Few Hours
It is important to me that i spend a part of the next few hours here alone with you in the darkness.
You and i will never be this close again. By morning you will be a tiny person all your own.
No longer the kicking, demanding bulge in my body that i have grown to love so well.
I pray God will safely guide you on your Journey and, i ask him for strength to help you all i can.
Again, you signal your impatience to be free. Time to wake your Daddy!
written by Dee Dee McCall
