Natural Design Midwifery is a home-birth practice offering comprehensive prenatal care to low-risk healthy women. The prenatal care that I offer includes an initial physical examination, standard blood testing and pap smear, education including nutritional counseling, bonding ultrasonic imaging (non-diagnostic) and the birth pool rental. I believe that birth is a natural process, not a medical procedure. “Midwives don’t deliver babies, we are there in case the person doing so needs anything…and then we clean up.” -Manhattan Birth
I follow the routine schedule for prenatal care which is one prenatal visit every 4 weeks from the initial visit until the 28th week visit. Then a prenatal visit ever 2 weeks from 28-36 weeks gestation and once weekly from 36-42 weeks gestation. I offer visits based in my home office. Because I keep my cost low, I am able to offer comprehensive prenatal care for $5500 for self-pay. This amount covers prenatal care, standard lab testing, labor/birth management with myself and a trained birth assistant and of course postpartum care. This amount also includes the following medications if needed: IV, antibiotics, oxygen therapy, anti-hemorrhagic medication, neonatal Vitamin K injection, neonatal and erythromycin eye ointment. I file the legal birth certificate through the Florida Department of Vital Statistics within 5 days of the birth as well as order the social security card.
