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Services and Financial Information

Prenatal Care
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What's covered in prenatal visits?​
 

  • Answering questions relating to pregnancy, labor, birth, baby care, breastfeeding, postpartum, and beyond

  • We review your healthy and medical history, as well as family healthy and medical history

  • Ongoing evaluation of nutritional needs and discuss any needs for dietary changes

  • Perform physical assessment at each visit

  • Monitor healthy weight increase, though you are welcome to decline weight checks if desired

  • Assess blood pressure

  • Perform dipstick urinalysis with you as insight into your body's needs

  • Assess fetal growth and activity

  • Determine fetal position by palpation

  • Listen to fetal heart tones with doppler or fetoscope depending on needs or preferences

  • Perform and review your blood tests, cultures, or other labs as needed

  • Ultrasound referrals

  • Discuss your vision for birthing, preparation for labor, baby and postpartum

  • Discuss safety for baby as well as offering carseat checks and education from Sam, who is a child passenger safety technician

  • Fill out leave, FAMILI, or disability paperwork as needed

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How long are prenatal visits? How often do we meet with families?

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We plan an hour for each visit, including your free consulation, sometimes they are longer or shorter depending on each clients needs.

 

Prenatal visits occur once a month until 28 weeks, every two weeks until 36 weeks, then weekly until delivery.

We invite partners, support people, and children to attend visits, especially your 36 week homevisit.

 

We love starting care as early as possible in your pregnancy!  

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We also offer.. 

Childbirth education for our homebirth clients

No-cost carseat checks for all community, just email us to scheulde!

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​Care through your birthing time typically includes:

  • Offer labor guidance and comfort measures

  • Monitoring baby's well being with intermittent fetal heart tone readings

  • Monitoring mother's well being

  • Assess the progress of labor (vaginal exams are used only when necessary)

  • "Catch" the baby and/or assist mother/partner to "catch" the baby

  • Chart the progress of labor and birth (copies may be made available for record)

  • Administer Pitocin and other relevant medications and oxygen as indicated.

  • Provide herbs, homeopathy, and/or essential oils if desired and indicated.

  • Support birthing in water should you have a birthing tub available to you.

  • Clean up following the birth, including washing the birth laundry, and taking out the trash, (birthing isn't messy! We typically use one kitchen size trash bag for what needs to be disposed)

  • Examine the placenta, we also offer placenta prints to those who are interested

  • If indicated at any time, facilitate transport for either baby or mom, continuing to support via phone and text and occasionally offering in person support.

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Image by Emily June Photography

Postpartum Care
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Image by Madison Swann Birth and Photography

Here's what to expect from postpartum midwifery care:​

  • Midwives monitoring the baby and mother during the immediate postpartum period (the first few hours after birth)

  • Perform comprehensive newborn exam and screening

  • Administer Vitamin K and antibiotic eye ointment if desired by parents

  • Assist with breast feeding throughout the postpartum period

  • Referrals for an medical care that may be required, and bodywork as needed

  • Instruct family on how to monitor the vitals of mother and baby for the first 4 days postpartum

  • Perform metabolic newborn screeing test (heel stick), newborn hearing screen, and congenital heart defect screening

  • Home Visits for both the birthing parent and baby at 24 hours, between day 3-5, and again around day 7-10 or as needed during the first 2 weeks postpartum

  • Available to answer questions via phone or text

  • Provide a 2 week, 4 week, and 6 week in office postpartum visits (last visit includes a well woman exam, pelvic floor check, and pap if needed or desired)

  • Provide routine well baby care through 6 weeks postpartum

  • File birth certificate, provide validation of live birth, and complete any other documentation the family may need.

Global Fee | $6500

  • ​All fees due by 34 weeks

  • Not in network with insurance

  • HSA/FSA accepted

  • Flexible payment plans available

  • No discounts available for clients who hire late into care

  • Itemized billing offered through billing service for reimbursement, reimbursement not guaranteed

  • Does not include labs, ultrasounds, or other supplies/services you may require. 
     

Our Fee Includes:

  • Midwifery care and wisdom through your prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum time
    (And even through pre-conception!) 

  • Ongoing education to prepare for birth and postpartum

  • Everything mentioned above, and continued investment in your and your baby's health and wellbeing beyond the perinatal time

  • Hands on lactation support, guidance, and education​​
     

Click here to inquire for more information!

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**labs, ultrasounds, supplements, or other providers/facilities not included in fee​

**labs and ultrasound costs typically covered by insurance

**doula support, photography, and placenta encapsulation is not included but we are happy to provide recommendations!

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