24 hour Postpartum visit at your home.
Call The Montrose Midwife for your individualized package
970-765-7003
Serving families in
Montrose Delta Olathe Grand Junction Paonia Gunnison
Ridgway Ouray Telluride
Peace on Earth can begin with Birth
Taking Blood Pressure and Pulse.
Discussing concerns and joys.
Listening to baby’s heartbeat with a fetoscope.
Library access to you for the most informed choices in your care.
Mother-Centered Support in Labor.
Minutes after Birth.
Head to Toe Newborn Exam after Family Bonding and Breastfeeding.
Undisturbed Bonding in the Comfort of your Own Home.
Evaluating Baby Respirations without Disturbing Family Bonding and Breastfeeding.
A Guided Knowledgeable Beginning to Breastfeeding Makes All the Difference.
Peace On Earth Can Begin With Birth
Prenatal Care
Experience the difference that care with a licensed midwife makes. Prenatal care is an essential component in midwifery care to assure we are on track for a home birth. It offers the time needed to develop a trusting relationship between midwife and mother. Your prenatal visits will include checking in on:
Nutrition and Exercise
Blood pressure and Pulse
Discomforts and Remedies
Bloodwork/Labs
Mother’s Heart and Mind
Your baby’s well-being is assessed through palpation, fundal measurement, and heart monitoring with a doppler or fetoscope.
Referrals for ultrasound can be made as needed or desired.
Children and family are welcome.
Labor and Birth
Birth is a natural process and a sacred moment unique to each baby and mother. Your birth is attended by Tawnya, chief licensed midwife of The Montrose Midwife, and also by a qualified assistant to assure that both mother and baby receive the most optimal care.
Homebirths succeed with patience and love. We bring the skills and equipment sometimes necessary to assure a low-risk, low-intervening homebirth, including:
Professional-grade Birth Tub for Waterbirth
I.V. Fluids
Meds to minimize Hemorrhage
Neonatal Resuscitation/CPR
Suture Kit
Other common features of your homebirth care include:
Delayed Clamping and Cutting of the Umbilical Cord
Undisturbed 1st Golden Hour
Ongoing Monitoring of Mother and Baby
Breastfeeding Guidance
Eye Ointment and Vitamin K
Placental Storage for Processing
Clean-up and Laundry
Postpartum Care
The Montrose Midwife wants to optimize your transition from pregnancy and birth to a blessed postpartum with rest, support, successful breastfeeding, and complete healing.
We come to you the day after birth, and two weeks after the birth. Your postpartum plan starts before you birth your baby, making sure there is plenty of support to care for your house, family, and meals. This is the time to rest, bond with baby, and succeed in breastfeeding. Mother and baby are under our care until your six weeks office visit. We will evaluate baby’s growth, mom’s healing, and breastfeeding at each visit. Newborn screening (PKU) and pap smears are offered.
“The knowledge about how to give birth is born within every woman: women do not need to be taught how to give birth but rather to have more trust and faith in their own body knowledge.
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We accept late-transfers, VBAC, first-time families, grand families, and first-time home birthers. Call today to discuss your birth options with The Montrose Midwife.
970-765-7003
