Below is a list of the midwifery services we offer at Glory Birth. Feel free to contact us anytime regarding questions about our services and see if partnering with us is a good fit.
Any concerns that arise throughout your pregnancy will not be ignored. We are here for you and on-call 24/7 to ensure your safety and well-being and can let you know if you’re experiencing something that needs higher care, how to deal with it, or assure you of normalcy.
Usually, there is no need to see an OBGYN. Our low-risk mothers get their wellness visits starting at 10-12 weeks gestation. We will see you monthly until you’re 32 weeks pregnant, then bi-weekly until your home visit around 36/37 weeks. After that weekly until delivery. Our prenatal visits include bloodwork, urine test strips, blood pressure monitoring, listening to fetal heart tones, measuring uterine growth, and palpation of your belly to determine the amniotic fluid amount, size, and position of your baby. Education on what to expect and how to stay low-risk throughout your pregnancy is given at each visit. Visits are 45 minutes to an hour long to thoroughly answer all of your questions.
From the time that you call us we remain with you monitoring you and your baby to ensure that you are safe to stay home and remain low-risk during your labor and delivery. We stay with you until at least two hours postpartum or until you’re stable and ready for us to leave. Our homebirth midwives are well equipped with the medications, herbs, and equipment needed for all types of emergencies, but are well trained to spot an emergency we cannot handle in advance to get you safely to the hospital if the need arises.
We come to you for your 24/48 hour visit after birth and come to you again at 2 weeks so that you can continue to heal and your newborn can stay home and safe while its immunity is building. You will come see us for your final 6 week visit so we all can all say our goodbye’s. We never charge more for extra visits when they’re needed. We educate and support your breastfeeding journey, but will connect you with our partners if you need more intensive care. We can provide metabolic screening, hearing screening, and the critical congenital heart defect screening in your home. We continue to be on call for you in this process until 6 weeks postpartum when you transition to a pediatrician or Dr. Google.
While it might not be classic for every practice, this is OUR classic. We will see you in the office for your 1st prenatal appointment around 12 weeks, then we come to you and do the 2nd prenatal in your home. After that, the rest will be office visits until you’re 37 weeks and we do another home visit to plan for the baby’s arrival. Then you’re back in the office until you have the baby. After that we don’t have you come to us until 6 weeks, we will come to see you so you can stay, rest, heal, and snuggle that sweet baby. We also include two lactation visits with one of our lactation consultants, one in person and one via zoom, to make sure you feel totally secure and covered in your feeding journey. This package includes all routine labs, your birth kit, and tub rental. You will just need to pay for your ultrasound and gather some supplies from around your home. Ask about our discounts!
With our deluxe package, we are giving you the chance to relax as much as humanly possible. Our midwives will travel to you so you will never even have to leave your home for your appointments. Besides the consult and ultrasound, we will do all appointments in the comfort and safety of your home unless you have a non-routine need that we cannot quickly get to you, you can stay home. This also includes all routine labs, birth kits, and tub rental. We will also perform a milk bath photoshoot at your 6-week postpartum if desired…you will have to pump the milk, that’s one thing we can’t do for you 🙂
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