Midwives traditionally spend more time with their clients, both prenatally and during labor. Midwives emphasize preventative health care, educating the clients about nutrition, exercise, breastfeeding and labor and delivery. Midwives help women individualize their birth experience. They support clients in choosing a variety of birth options, including natural childbirth, as well as analgesics and epidural anesthesia. Midwifery clients statistically have a lower rate of forceps assisted deliveries, vacuum extractions, episiotomies, and caesarean sections.

We believe

• Labor and birth are normal physiological events and unfold best when treated as such. We encourage women to eat and drink and move freely during early labor at home. We try to intervene as little as possible in the birthing process.
• Women have the right to make informed decisions regarding their care. Our visits are long enough to make sure all your questions are answered. We provide written and verbal information about all aspects of pregnancy and labor and delivery.
• Birth is a social event. The people who comfort and support a woman should be welcome at her birth.
• That birth is a welcoming of a new life and should be as gentle as possible. We facilitate the baby staying with his/her parents as much as possible and encourage skin to skin bonding right after delivery.
• Women have innate knowledge about the birthing process and should be encouraged to follow their instincts and listen to their bodies.

We offer:

• Comprehensive prenatal care
• Labor support and births at Fremont Medical Center
• Individualized birthing plans. 
• Gynecological, annual exams and family planning services
• Gentle first pelvic exams