You’re pregnant!
…Now what?
Pregnancy is a special and often isolating time. For many of us, we don’t know where to begin! We are medical providers, trained and certified in the midwifery model of care, here to support you in your journey whichever direction you take.
How can we help?
We know that delivering with a midwife is not always an option. Many of the hospitals in Los Angeles do not employ midwives or offer delivering privileges, and home birth is not always an option or affordable. We are here to offer our midwifery services as supplemental to your pregnancy journey – whether you are:
newly pregnant and need an initial prenatal appointment, including lab work, dating ultrasounds, and guidance
plan to deliver with an OB-GYN in the hospital and desire additional support
desire at-home postpartum care
or if you are newly pregnant and need help narrowing down who to hire and where to deliver and additional resources
What is a midwife?
A midwife is a licensed healthcare provider offering medical care throughout the woman and birthing person’s lifespan, including gynecological care, prenatal, birth, postpartum, menopausal care, as well as newborn care up to 28 days of life. A midwife is an expert in physiological birth. A certified nurse midwife differs from a licensed midwife in that we have nursing degrees and background working as nurses in the hospital setting.
In other countries, midwifery is the standard model of care, with the majority of births led by midwives and obstetricians available for higher risk patients. In the United States, where we experience some of the poorest maternal and infant health outcomes compared to other industrialized nations, only 11% of births are midwife-led (Niles & Zephryn, 2023). We are here to make midwifery care more accessible.
Reference: Niles, M.P., & Zephyrin, L.C. (5 May, 2023). How Expanding the Role of Midwives in U.S. Health Care Could Help Address the Maternal Health Crisis. The Commonweath Fund. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2023/may/expanding-role-midwives-address-maternal-health-crisis
Our Background
We are two Los Angeles-based Certified Nurse Midwives with extensive experience working in maternal health. We started our journey as doulas, then labor & delivery nurses, and now as midwives providing prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum care to families in hospital and out-of-hospital. We are also two moms who gave birth at home with collaborative care teams.