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Most families start by setting up a free consultation visit to see if we are a good match. The consult visit is a time to ask questions, connect on a person level, and determine if you are a good candidate for a home birth or birth center delivery. After that, your initial prenatal visit can be scheduled to establish care. At your first visit we get a full health history, conduct a basic physical exam, and collect blood work. 

 

Our routine prenatal visits offer time to answer questions and concerns, discuss any upcoming screening tests, and to check in on the health of you and baby. 

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 Prenatal care schedule may look something like this:

• Every four weeks during the first + second trimesters until 28 weeks

• Every two weeks from 28 weeks to 36 weeks

• Every week after that until 41 weeks gestation

• After 41 weeks we make a plan together for appropriate monitoring and evaluations

• Virtual visits are available

 

When you go into labor, you will be attended by one of the Moonrise Midwives, a midwifery student and/or birth assistant. In many cases both midwives, Amy + Brandy attend the deliveries together. We stay, either at the home or birth center, for a period of time after delivery to ensure a safe and healthy transition, and then return for a home visit at one or two days postpartum. 

 

Postpartum care continues through 6 weeks after delivery and includes newborn care, newborn feeding/breastfeeding support, review of newborn behavioral cues, nutrition guidance, and clinical evaluations for the postpartum person and baby.

Families love our care so much they tend to continue their pediatric care with Dr. Brandy!