Homebirth, Waterbirth, Midwife, Midwifery, VBAC, Lactation Consultant, pregnant pregnancy midwife CPM, CNM, OBGYN baby delivery prenatal care postpartum care in home midwife breastpump breastfeeding homeschooling homebirthing
Homebirth, Waterbirth, Midwife, Midwifery, VBAC, Lactation Consultant, pregnant pregnancy midwife CPM, CNM, OBGYN baby delivery prenatal care postpartum care in home midwife breastpump breastfeeding homeschooling homebirthing
Homebirth, Waterbirth, Midwife, Midwifery, VBAC, Lactation Consultant, pregnant pregnancy midwife CPM, CNM, OBGYN baby delivery prenatal care postpartum care in home midwife breastpump breastfeeding homeschooling homebirthing
Homebirth, Waterbirth, Midwife, Midwifery, VBAC, Lactation Consultant, pregnant pregnancy midwife CPM, CNM, OBGYN baby delivery prenatal care postpartum care in home midwife breastpump breastfeeding homeschooling homebirthing
What does homebirth with a midwife look like?
Midwives do things differently.
Midwifery care is a collaboration between a client and a knowledgeable guide, who spends time getting to know your family, your preferences, hopes, and priorities. By choosing midwifery, you are taking responsibility for living a healthy lifestyle while pregnant, opting to invest in discussions about what options you have in care, and preparing for a birth with few routine interventions.
Appointments for prenatal care in this practice are offered at my home office, with your family present if you would like. With appointments scheduled for an hour, there is enough time to check in on your and your baby's wellbeing, talk about topics of importance, interest, and answer your questions. Informed choice about procedures, diagnostics, and interventions is a hallmark of the midwifery model of care, and it means that you are taking in a lot of information and making decisions that feel right to you within your value system. I will draw any labwork needed in the office, and can refer for ultrasound and other testing as needed on a case by case basis. Birth, and most postpartum and lactation visits are offered in your home, within a 60-minute radius of the office.
Normal prenatal care in the practice means hour long visits, monthly from the beginning of pregnancy to 28 weeks, every other week from 30-36 weeks, and weekly from 37 weeks until the birth.
Birth at home comes after getting to know your midwife and become comfortable with me. During active labor, I monitor you and your baby, support physiological birth, and facilitate water birth or birth in any position. Physical and emotional support are part of the care.
I respectfully monitor you and your new little one after the baby is born and help with any care that either of you need. Once you are both cleaned up, examined, fed, and everyone is stable, I clean up your home and tuck you into your own bed.
Postpartum and newborn care is in your home at 1 day, 3 days, and 1 and 2 weeks. Office visits at 4 weeks and 6 weeks complete your care. Newborn spot test screening and CCHD screening are provided by your midwife.
Gina Penka Corriveau, CPM, IBCLC is both a Certified Professional Midwife licensed in the state of Maine, as well as an IBCLC, providing the highest level of lactation care. All lactation services for midwifery clients are included for midwifery clients.
Some folks do better when giving birth elsewhere. Home birth is not always the most appropriate choice, but Gina may be able to support you in other ways if the best place for your birth is in a hospital setting.
