A woman in a black tank top is holding a newborn baby in a birthing tub. The woman is looking at the baby lovingly, and the baby is cuddled close to her chest.

What does home birth with a midwife look like?

Being a holistic midwifery practice means looking at the whole picture of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, not just the medical aspects.

Instead, we begin with gentle, natural recommendations like nourishing foods, herbs, homeopathic remedies, and lifestyle support while maintaining access to appropriate medications and the training to recognize when medical options are needed.

Our low-volume, personalized care supports your home birth journey from pregnancy through postpartum.

Home Birth with Us

  1. Prenatal Support


    You remain in control of your healthcare decisions through informed consent. Personalized visits focused on your body, mind, and spirit. Guidance on nutrition, movement, birth preparation and emotional wellbeing.

    We will share care amongst your 2 midwives intentionally, so you build real relationship and trust. We are all about creating ease, familiarity and confidence before labor even begins. We will do an in-home “Birthing Time” visit at 37 weeks.


    Prenatal visits include:

    • Hour long visits

    • Routine assessment and monitoring of both maternal and fetal wellbeing throughout pregnancy, including blood pressure, fetal growth, heart tones, and fetal positioning

    • Collection and coordination of recommended prenatal labs and testing

    • Nutritional and holistic wellness support

    • Birth education and preparation

    • Emotional support and nervous system centered care

    • Informed decision making and collaborative care planning

    • Access to trusted community referrals and resources when needed

    Prenatal care is scheduled:

    Every 4 weeks until 28 weeks

    Every 2 weeks from 28 to 36 weeks

    Weekly beginning at 36 weeks until birth

  2. Labor Care & Support


    We honor your autonomy, intuition, and personal birth vision. Continuous, skilled midwife support during active labor, with attention to safety, comfort, and empowerment. Birth is sacred, and at home you have the freedom to shape your space—choosing the light, sounds, food, and the people surrounding you.

    LABOR AND BIRTH CARE INCLUDES

    • A cohesive midwifery care team that is rested and grounded in their decision making

    • Ongoing assessment and monitoring of maternal and fetal wellbeing throughout labor and birth

    • Continuous midwifery care during active labor, birth, and the immediate postpartum period

    • Support for physiologic birth, instinctive movement, positioning, hydration, nourishment, rest, and comfort measures throughout labor

    • Freedom to labor in your own space and rhythm with individualized, relationship-based support

    • Immediate skin-to-skin support, protected golden hour, and delayed cord clamping

    • Nursing and infant feeding support during the immediate postpartum period

    • Gentle newborn assessment and optional newborn procedures completed bedside whenever possible

    YOUR MIDWIVES ARRIVE FULLY EQUIPPED WITH:

    • Birth equipment and supplies

    • Medications, herbs, and IV fluids when clinically indicated

    • Oxygen and neonatal resuscitation equipment

    • Emergency supplies and postpartum medications

    • Birth tub provided in due window, set up and clean up support

      Consider adding a doula and birth photographer for continuous support and to beautifully capture your story.

  3. Postpartum & Newborn Care


    We believe postpartum care is an essential part of caring for the whole family and provide unhurried, supportive visits. The weeks after welcoming a baby are a time of physical healing, emotional transition, nourishment, bonding, and learning your new rhythm together, and you deserve continued support through all of it.

    Our care continues in your home during the postpartum period, allowing space for rest, recovery, questions, reassurance, and ongoing connection as your family settles in.

    POSTPARTUM AND NEWBORN CARE INCLUDES:

    • In-home postpartum visit for both mom and baby around 24-48 hours old

    • Ongoing assessment of maternal healing, recovery, and emotional wellbeing

    • Newborn wellness monitoring including weight checks, feeding assessment, and transition to life outside of the womb

    • Expert nursing and infant feeding support from both your midwives and our partnered IBCLC with experience in holistic lactation care, oral restrictions, and tongue tie support for the mother baby dyad

    • Guidance, education, and support as families adjust to life with a new baby

    • Emotional support and space to process your birth experience

    • Newborn metabolic screening and CCHD screening

    • Preparation and filing of birth certificate and newborn state screening documentation  

    • Postpartum blood work collection when indicated to support recovery and healing

    • Well woman care for established clients including cervical cancer screening, pelvic exams, and family planning support

    • Coordination of referrals and collaborative support with trusted community providers

    POSTPARTUM VISITS ARE SCHEDULED:

    • Within the first 24 to 48 hours after birth

    • A visit around 1 to 2 weeks postpartum

    • A virtual visit around 4 weeks postpartum

    • A office visit around 6 weeks postpartum

  4. Collaborative Care


    We work closely with childbirth educators, integrative pediatric providers, lactation consultants, mental health providers, chiropractors, doulas and birth photographers to support your family completely and holistically. We also are proud to offer regular motherhood support groups and community events. Check out our Motherhood Circle of resources.

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Home birth honors trust and respect in the birthing process. At home, babies receive optimal microbiome support, and families have space to rest and nourish.

Your midwives guide and support you every step of the way, bringing all the standard equipment found in a low-risk labor and delivery room. We use traditional modalities and birth tubs to help you relax and feel supported during labor.

A good review of studies on waterbirth can be found here. 

Learn more:

  • The majority of people are considered low-risk and a good candidate for out-of-hospital birth.

    To learn more about the safety of birthing out of the hospital, check out this  research study conducted by the Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA), which confirms the safety for low-risk families who choose to birth at home with a Midwife.

     Study after Study show home birth to be safe with less intervention than our hospital birth system.

  • We take care of most of your prenatal testing right in our office, including vaginal cultures, pap smears, blood work (including genetic screens), and urine tests—so you can get the care you need without extra trips. We work with Quest and Unity, which accepts 99% of insurances out there. The lab also offers reduced pricing for uninsured clients.

    • Glucose Tolerance Testing using The Fresh Test®

    • GBS Testing

    • Complete blood count (CBC): Evaluates the cells that circulate in your blood, like iron and platelets.

    • Blood type and Rh factor: Determines your blood type and Rh factor (negative or positive)

    • Antibody screen: Tests for antibodies that attack red blood cells

    • Rubella Antibody titer: Screens for German Measles

    • Urinalysis: Evaluates components of the urine

    • Pap smear: Screens for cervical cancer

    • Genetic screening: Screens for fetal chromosomal abnormalities and neural tube defects

    • Carrier screening: Screens for maternal chromosomal abnormalities

    • HIV, Syphilis and Hepatitis B&C screening: Standard sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening 

    • Gonorrhea and Chlamydia cultures: Screens for gonorrhea and chlamydia 

    • Urine Culture: Screens for bacteria in the urine

    • Thyroid and hormone testing: Screens the thyroid hormones, as well as additional hormones, if necessary.

    • Vitamin D: Evaluates Vitamin D levels

    • Vaginal Microbiome: Candida, BV, Trichomoniasis, etc.

    • Unity Genetic screening (includes fetal sex, blood type, and genetic profile)

    • SpeakPeek Gender Blood Test

  • Full Circle Midwifery brings all medical equipment and labor support tools. This includes a professional birth pool, birthing stool, resuscitation equipment, medications, herbs, vitals, etc. You can see a complete list in our blog post “What’s in Your Midwife’s Bag?”

    We require the purchase of a water birth kit, if using our professional birth pool, which we have already compiled for you. We ask that this kit is purchased and delivered before our birth prep visit at 37 weeks. In addition to the water birth kit, we recommend comfort items, towels, baby blankets, a bowl for the placenta, and snacks that you would normally desire. We will provide you a complete list of supplies during your care with us.

  • Yes, it is legal for licensed midwives to offer VBAC at home in the state of Florida. We will schedule a consultation between you and an OB to review your history and the details of your c-section, assess your current pregnancy, and discuss the risks and benefits of VBAC.

    Good prenatal care, adequate nutrition, and mental, emotional, spiritual preparation for labor and birth will help you prepare for your VBAC.

    I recommend that all mothers, but especially VBAC mothers, seek out a supportive community of other pregnant women. There are other woman walking the same path, connect! 

    Find your local International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN) chapter! They do wonderful work through education, providing support for cesarean recovery, and promoting Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC).

  • Yes! We encourage it. Your uterus is a muscle, it would be a disservice to not allow you to refuel as you work hard to birth your baby. 

    At your birthing time visit, we will help you gather snacks and hydration for labor.

  • Your safety is at the heart of our care. During labor, we monitor your baby’s heartbeat regularly, assess your vital signs, and support you with hydration, nutrition, and rest. Every birth includes a licensed midwife plus a trained student, birth assistant or second midwife.

    We use evidence-based protocols to ensure clients remain low-risk and appropriate for home birth. These are available upon request.

    Because we serve healthy, low-risk pregnancies, our transfer rate is low (5–10%). We are trained to identify concerns early, manage many complications at home, and arrange transfer before an emergency develops. We carry Pitocin, IV fluids, oxygen, and neonatal and maternal resuscitation equipment, and all providers maintain up-to-date NRP and CPR certifications.

    We discuss possible reasons for transfer throughout your prenatal care, and we maintain collaborative relationships with local hospitals to ensure a smooth handoff when needed.

    No birth setting can guarantee outcomes, but through shared decision-making and attentive, skilled care, we work with you to create the safest possible environment for your birth.

  • One of the benefits about having a midwife for your unmedicated birth is that we have helped hundreds of people do this.  We have trust in you, your body and your baby, and we have skills to help. If there is one thing we know, it is that you can cope with the discomfort of normal labor. We do ask that all first time home birthers take childbirth education class and or hire a doula so that you are more prepared and confident. 

    Women have been doing this since the beginning of time. We find that the “mind over matter” philosophy really does ring true. The mental state, ability to relax and or overcome is greater than the physical sensation. We truly believe your body was meant for birth, and support the physiology while breaking into the psychology that may get in the way.

    Your midwife also will deliver the birth pool to your home at 36 weeks. We LOVE “aquadurals” and encourage using water as a coping tool. Additionally, we bring birth balls, peanut balls, TENS units, Birth Slings, and our heart and hands to fully support you.

    Lastly, we always encourage hiring a doula. They are professionals for supporting the physical and emotional “labor” of birth. Doulas and Midwives go together like Peanut Butter and Jelly!

  • Your baby's birth certificate information will be submitted and instructions will be provided on how to obtain the birth certificate. The Newborn Metabolic Screening and Congenital Heart Defect Screening are offered at the first postpartum visit. 

    We will perform weight checks at every postpartum visit, ensuring adequate weight gain and timely referrals, as necessary.

    Resource: https://floridanewbornscreening.com/

"...one cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecessarily.”

— Michel Odent

Birth is Personal. Your Care Should Be Too.
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