When a woman has a home birth it is a unique and special experience. She labors in her own comfortable environment, surrounded by familiar sounds and smells, simple comforts and her chosen community of support. She can move freely, walk around her back yard, labor in a birth tub or in her own bed, all with minimal intervention. She may have intimate moments with her partner, and may have an older child present to witness the miracle of birth. There are limitless examples of how women follow their body’s powerful instincts and find their own best way to give birth when they feel safe, respected and supported at home.
What to Expect with Matri Midwifery
Maitri Midwives enter the home of a laboring woman with loving, peaceful energy and a reverence for her birth experience. We accompany her in labor to help develop a safe and satisfying birth experience. We believe that birth is an empowering, profound, marvelous, sacred, life-changing experience. We watch, we listen, we assess the well-being of mother and baby, and we offer our support through words and touch. We are patient, knowing that women’s bodies open in the fullness of time, not according to a graph or specific timeline. We have many ideas for comfort measures, pain coping techniques and position changes, but for every woman our support is individualized, responding to her unique needs, desires and experiences. We have spent long hours through the night massaging a woman to help her soften and open, and have sat quietly outside the room when a woman has desired to labor in solitude. We provide reassurance when all is well, share information we gather from listening to fetal heart tones, and are comfortable using our advanced midwifery skills when they are needed. We offer a complete understanding of the birth process but more importantly we offer sensitivity, stamina, patience and reverence to your birth process. We provide information to enable families to make informed choices.
Reccomendations
We recommend that you carefully consider all your options, do research, and ask questions. In choosing a homebirth, you assume a higher level of responsibility and control of your care. Throughout your pregnancy and birth, we keep you fully informed with your status and options, discuss pros and cons of each option and make a unique care plan for you. We will maintain complete confidentiality of all details relating to your pregnancy and birth. As we are independent and self-employed, we will be working for you. We will come to your home when you are in labor. We are there to provide on-going, nurturing, emotional and spiritual care and provide physical comfort measures to you during your birth experience. We will monitor the progress of your labor; provide support, reassurance and perspective to you; offer suggestions for relaxation, massage, distraction, position or other techniques for comfort; and we will monitor you and your baby for any indications of complications. The care is unique to each woman/family. It is our wish to allow you to birth in accordance with your own birth plan. This is your birth!
Before Labor
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During your care, most of your appointments will take place in the office. All of your labs can be drawn at your appointment, when necessary. You will have one prenatal home visit toward the end of your pregnancy to ensure that we know how to find your home, and are able to see the birthing environment. You also have a home visit in the first few days after your birth to check the well-being of mom and baby.
In addition we provide great referrals for chiropractic care, massage, pelvic floor rehab, birth photography and more. |
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Need to Rent a Birth Tub?
Maitri Midwifery now has birth tubs for rent! Check out our rental page for more information.