Midwifery Services: Why Choose Us?
When you choose the midwifery team, you benefit from:
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A full range of services
Midwives offer an extensive range of healthcare services, from routine Pap smears to support during perimenopause and menopause. Midwives practice as independent providers, so you may see a midwife as your primary healthcare provider for your routine gynecologic or obstetric care.
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Personalized support and education
Midwives offer longer appointment times that allow them to provide extensive patient support. They answer your questions and work to understand your concerns so They can create a personalized, effective care plan. Midwives inform and educate you on all your options so you feel empowered to make the healthcare decisions that are right for you.
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Empowering childbirth experiences
The team provides extensive bedside services during childbirth, including hands-on support, mobility encouragement or hydrotherapy. Midwives also offer a full spectrum of pain management options, including nitrous oxide, intravenous (IV) medications or epidurals. The midwife philosophy is that birth is a normal physiological process and midwives empower and support women as they deliver.
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Natural birth options
Many women who choose midwifery services want to have a natural birth or non-medicated birth, if possible. Midwives value personalized birth plans and advocate for the wishes and decisions of their patients. They support birthing people through all types of birth plans, including through natural or non-medicated births.
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Integrated care models
The midwifery team collaborates with in-hospital providers such as perinatologists and obstetric hospitalists. If you need a higher level of care at any time during labor or delivery, your midwife consults with our on-site physicians. If any complications arise during childbirth, care is seamlessly coordinated with obstetric doctors who are available 24/7.