Peace on Earth, Begins with birth
Prenatal Care
We believe strongly in preventative health and offer personalized care to meet each individuals needs as they are ever changing. Prenatal visits are performed in our office space or in your home and typically run for around 45 minutes. This allows plenty of time to talk and listen. We will discuss your unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. This includes nutritional counseling, offering recommendations for discomforts, addressing concerns, and evaluating yours and your babies overall well-being. During your care we may recommend supplements, herbs, tinctures, or homeopathic remedies as alternative treatments to traditional medicine. We will also perform clinical assessments of you and your baby and offer and discuss any routine standard of care applicable to that time during pregnancy.
Appointments occur on the following standard care schedule, unless otherwise requested:
Conception through 32 weeks, visits once every 4 weeks
32-36 weeks, every 2 weeks
36- delivery at least once a week, or more as needed
Birth
Your Birth belongs to you! We believe in mother led physiological birth, which means we follow your lead every step of the way. That means we will participate as much or as little as you desire, we will arrive as early, or as late as you request or need, and will always inform you and gain your consent before anything is done to you or your baby. We love following a mother’s lead during their birth, as we believe women know themselves and their babies best!
What To expect during labor and birth
We will monitor your labor progress by phone until it is mutually determined that we should come to you as labor intensifies and birth is approaching. A Midwife and at least one birth assistant will attend your birth, Student Midwives may attend with your permission. When your Midwife arrives, she will take vitals of both you and baby and assess your labor as needed as well as chart all pertinent medical information. We will offer physical and emotional support during your birthing time and continue monitoring you and your baby throughout. After birth we will assist with delivery of the placenta, monitor and manage any bleeding, evaluate and repair lacerations as necessary and assist with breastfeeding and infant care as needed.
Post Partum Care
Post Partum care with Transitions Midwifery is different. We truly care about your post-partum experience whether it be as a new mother or with the newest edition to a large family. Every baby is different and with that can come uncharted territory into motherhood. We come to evaluate and support both you and baby after birth between 24-48 hours, 1-week post-partum, and 2- weeks post-partum, and then see you again in the office at 4- and 6-weeks post-partum. We also continue to be available to you for support as needed during this time whether it be newborn care, breastfeeding difficulties or mental health support we are fully committed to ensuring women feel nurtured and loved during this most precious time. As Licensed Midwives in the State of Virginia, we are able to provide well baby care through 6 weeks in your home or in our office.