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Midwifery/Home Birth Services
Donna Roehm, CPM provides home birth midwifery services in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and surrounding areas. Donna is honored to train other midwives-to-be. This is very important for the future of midwifery and community birth.
Your midwives trust in the birthing process and are also trained and come prepared to help manage complications that can occur at home. Your Midwives are trained and certified in Neonatal Resuscitation.
Much focus is placed on-
Nutritional information, supplements and holistic options to support you prenatally for the healthiest approach, for a normal, healthy birth and postpartum.
However, the focus of midwifery care is much of the work that is done prenatally to help prepare a birthing family.
Home Birth package includes:
PRENATAL <3 Visits with Donna throughout your entire pregnancy, monthly 45-60min long prenatals until 28 weeks, then biweekly visits, then weekly visits from 37 weeks on, included is a home visit at 37 weeks to visit your birthing space, review supplies, and meet with your home birth support team
Birth tubs for water birth are available to rent.
BIRTH <3 Donna and her midwife assistant will then be on call for your birth from 37 weeks-on
During your home birth, Donna and her midwife assistant support you from active labor until a few hours immediate postpartum.
POSTPARTUM <3 Donna also provides new baby care-from immediate postpartum to 6 weeks of age.
Home Postpartum visits will then commence from 24-72 hrs, with additional visits at 2 weeks, and 6 weeks postpartum.
<3 Breastfeeding support is provided
Midwives Model of Care
- from Citizens for Midwifery
Congratulations!
You are about to experience the birth of your baby!
Families in the United States are learning that pregnancy and childbirth are normal, healthy processes, not diseases. And they are finding out that they and their families can benefit from the care of a midwife.
The Midwives Model of Care includes prenatal visits and "hands-on" care throughout labor, birth and right after. It results in less chance of complications, fewer interventions, and a healthier birth for you and your baby.
Families are discovering that the hospital is not the only option for safe birth. Clients are most likely to labor best in a place where they feel free, safe and private, with attendants whom they know and trust.
Many client find that they feel most comfortable at home or in a birth center, with the ongoing attention and nurturing care of a midwife or doctor trained in gentle, natural, safe childbirth - someone who is an expert in normal birth and provides the Midwives Model of Care.
Pregnancy and childbirth involve every part of you. Your feelings, hopes, fears, physical and practical needs, and spiritual or religious beliefs can all affect your pregnancy and birth.
A midwife providing the Midwives Model of Care addresses all of these aspects to help you give birth naturally, safely and confidently. In addition, families who experience the Midwives Model of Care report feelings of great satisfaction and empowerment!
Compared to standard medical management, the Midwives Model of Care is a fundamentally different approach to pregnancy and childbirth.
This explains what to expect with the Midwives Model of Care, and how this kind of care can help make your childbirth experience a joyous life event.