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Maternity Services

  • Prenatal Examinations

  • Home or Birth Center delivery of your baby

  • Newborn and infant care first six weeks

  • Optional services available upon request

  • Insurance accepted, payment plans available (see below for more information)

Gentle Care Birth Package

Our birth package includes the following services:

  • Free initial consultation

  • Prenatal care (visits 30 minutes to one hour)

  • Large lending library of information, books, and videos

  • Six weeks of nurse-midwifery on-call for labor and birth

  • Loving and personal birth care

  • Assistant for labor

  • Physician collaboration if needed

  • Herbal bath following birth

  • Oxygen tank rental (used only if necessary)

  • Perineal suturing, if necessary

  • Complete newborn exam at birth.

  • Newborn screen test (PKU)

  • "Born At Home" t-shirt

  • Birth certificate filed and application for social security number for the newborn

  • Postpartum visits at home at 24-48 hours and one week

  • Office visit at three weeks and six weeks

  • Knowledge of herbal and homeopathic remedies

  • Ability to prescribe medications if needed (such as antibiotics)

Other Service Fees:

  • Ultrasound 

  • Prenatal Forte Vitamins

  • Birth Kit (disposable supplies)

  • Birthing Center fee

 
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If we want to create a less violent world, we must begin by paying close attention to the "primal period." This is all of the experiences that a human being has from conception to his or her first birthday, and all of the experiences the mother has during that time.

--Suzanne Arms, Birthing the Future