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Like midwifery, trillium is an endangered species. Traditionally, it was used to ease labor and to facilitate birth.

PHILOSOPHY OF PRACTICE

The Wonder of Birth
The Freedom of Homebirth

At home, birth can be intimate, joyful, peaceful, and empowering. Home is a familiar place where you can birth with confidence, supported by family, friends, and skilled midwives who honor birth and respect your wisdom and power. At home, care is woman and family centered. You may create your own rituals to celebrate birth and becoming a family.

At home you can relax and work with labor and respond to intensity in a variety of ways. Home provides a sense of well-being and normalcy that facilitates labor. Water birth is also a possibility.

The best research (British Medical Journal, 2005) shows that home birth is a responsible and positive choice for healthy women, who are attended by experienced midwives, and have hospital back-up available.


Midwifery Care: Personal, Nurturing, Respectful

I work with you in a spirit of mutual respect and trust. I listen to you and affirm your knowledge, intuition, and strengths. I encourage you to trust your body and the birth process. I trust your ability to nourish and care for your child as it develops, and to give birth.

Pregnancy and birth are healthy, natural events in a woman’s life, with physical, emotional, spiritual and psychological dimensions that need to be nurtured. My role is to support you and to be vigilant about you and your baby’s health and well-being.

Pregnancy Care

I provide care throughout pregnancy, encourage you to maintain a healthy lifestyle and to prevent problems through good nutrition and exercise. I help you learn about pregnancy changes and to prepare for labor, birth and mothering. I allow an hour for visits and am also available for phone consultations.

When complications arise we try to restore balance with herbs, natural remedies, life-style changes and, when needed, medical assistance. If necessary, I consult with, and refer to, other health care practitioners.

I bring to each pregnancy and birth the experience of hundreds of birthing women and the knowledge and skills that make birth at home secure and rewarding.

Labor and Birth

I respect the unique rhythm of your labor and encourage you to birth in your own way. I stay with you throughout labor to attend to your and your baby’s well-being and to provide affirmation and guidance. Labor is a hormonal symphony that allows birth to unfold in a way that protects you and your baby and eases pain.
I identify when things are not normal and can respond to emergency situations. If hospital transfer is necessary I remain with you as an advocate and doula. I will continue to provide care for you after birth in your home during the period of early mothering and I offer breast feeding support.