Baby Avocado Midwifery Services offers a comprehensive care package that focuses on physically and emotionally preparing you for motherhood. Physician referrals are available if necessary. Water-birth is offered and encouraged.
Prenatal Care Includes:
- Free Consultation
- Honest and open communication throughout your care
- Nutritional consultation and ongoing dietary analysis
- Complete physical exam
- Hour long prenatal visits to address all of your concerns and questions
- Prenatal blood work and urinalysis
- STI screening and pap smear offered
- Gestational Diabetes Screening offered
- GBS screening offered
- Hemoglobin check in the third trimester
- Holistic and allopathic recommendations for common pregnancy ailments
- Regular monitoring of baby's heart rate and growth throughout pregnancy
- Ongoing compassion and support
- Belly casting offered in third trimester
Care During Labor and Birth Includes:
- Midwife presence for active labor to regularly monitor mother's vital signs and baby's heart rate
- Availability of oxygen and antihemorrhagic medication if necessary
- Recommendations for natural pain alleviation
- Ongoing communication and support
- Midwife stays until both mother and baby are completely stable and baby has breastfed successfully
- Midwife returns to family's home within 24 hours and again at 3 days and 1 week for newborn and postpartum examinations
- Placenta printing and cord drying offered
Postpartum Care Includes:
- Mama and baby well visits at 2 weeks, 4 weeks, and 6 weeks
- Lactation Consulting
- Postpartum pap smear
- Contraceptive counseling
- Holistic and allopathic recommendations for: newborn jaundice, colic, skin rashes, nursing problems
- Footprinting offered
- Moxa heat treatment offered
Contact us:
Phone: (520) 409-2851
email: b.avocadomidwifery@gmail.com
