Services

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This website last updated April 2010.

Services

I provide homebirth and waterbirth services, including vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC), in both Kansas and Missouri and offer prenatal visits in Leavenworth County and in Kansas City. Full homebirth care involves all prenatal visits, labor, birth, the newborn exam, and all postpartum visits. Prenatal visits are offered in a flexible schedule and are typically monthly through the second trimester, bi-weekly from 26-36 weeks, then weekly until birth, including one visit at your home at approximately 37 weeks. Prenatal visits typically last 45-60 minutes, and are more than clinical; it is a time to get to know you and develop a relationship with understanding of your needs, and a time for you to learn more about your

choices in prenatal care, testing, and other procedures, so that you may make informed decisions about your pregnancy & birth. I will come to your home whenever you need me during your labor and provide care in your home until you give birth. A thorough, unhurried newborn exam is performed postpartum, a 24-hour phone visit, and a 3-day postpartum visit, with another postpartum check at 7 days if necessary.

Private insurance may reimburse for midwifery services; each insurance company is different and each plan within that company may offer different choices. I recommend contacting the insurance company and asking them if they will cover a Certified Professional Midwife. I am not licensed to accept Medicaid.

For those who are self-pay, I offer a cash discount and two different early-pay discounts to help make homebirth affordable for you. Fees do not include lab work or sonogram, physician and/or certified nurse-midwife consultation, outside medical care, your birth kit or independent birth tub rental. I do have three inflatable birth pools that may be used for waterbirth that are included in the fee.