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Birth Services
We provide primary prenatal, birth and postpartum care for low-risk pregnancies to those who would like a natural childbirth at home or in our birthing room. Midwifery care is client-led and focuses on the needs and desires of each family.
We accept major insurances, including Medicaid (WA Apple Health)
We offer free initial consultations- a time to meet the midwife and see if our services are right for you. Just give us a call or email to schedule.
We believe:
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Pregnancy and birth is a normal life process, not a medical condition.
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Pregnancy and birth initiates you into your strength and wisdom as a parent.
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You have an inherent right to body autonomy and consent. You decide what steps we will take to help you through this journey.
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You and your baby are an interdependent unit from the time of conception through the baby’s first year of life. As a parent, you have the special right and obligation to be the decider for your baby.
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We are a part of nature, so it is natural that we help and support others as we are able, and that we create and utilize technology to help us do so.
Statement of Ethics (abridged)
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We hold to ethical standards of personal autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice.
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We respect the client's personal sovereignty over their body, choices, and medical care. Clients decide the course of their lives and must never be denied that right.
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As midwives, it is our role to act in the best interest of our client which includes the mother-baby or parent-baby dyad. To provide the best care and options within our scope, which could lead to the best possible outcome. The best outcome is the one that is chosen by the client. There are times this is achieved by referring or consulting with another provider which can provide the care my client needs (with the client’s consent) if that care is outside of our scope.
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We hold to the Hippocratic principle “First do no harm” and realize that intervention should be used with a careful hand, as with any intervention can come inherent risk. There are times that things shift and intervention offers a great benefit to the client and/or their baby. When an intervention is indicated, in non-emergent situations we will start with the gentlest intervention possible before utilizing potentially more aggressive interventions. Only when the life or safety of one of the client or baby is in jeopardy would a more potentially invasive intervention be considered right away.
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We believe all humans have rights to safety from harm or persecution, access to safe water and sustenance, access to safe and effective medical care, and access to education.
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We believe all humans should be accepted and treated with non-judgement regardless of race, ethnicity, religion/beliefs, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or age.
