OUR MODEL OF CARE

We believe in informed consent.

We want all of the decisions you make to be fully informed.

Education equals empowerment, and at Birthing Miracles we strive to educate you about all of your options, risks, benefits, and alternatives. We believe that you should birth YOUR way. You have the option to birth in your home or at the Birth Room in my home. We offer water birth options, and we support VBAC, TWIN, Breech pregnancies.

We practice holistic care.
Holistic care explores the different factors that influence clients' health and wellbeing, and treats them as whole, unique individuals. Holistic care takes into account emotional, social, environmental, and physical factors that affect individuals' health. We take a holistic approach to your birthing journey including your pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period.

We do not discriminate.
Your access to care and the quality of your care are not determined by your race, gender, or financial situation payment plans are available.

What is a CPM?

The CPM is the only midwifery credential that requires knowledge about and experience in out-of-hospital settings.

Most CPMs own or work in private home or birth center based practices throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Providing continuous care for women throughout their childbearing cycle, CPMs generally carry a relatively low client load (averaging 3-6 births per month) which allows for more personalized and comprehensive care than typical obstetrical practices. The scope of practice of the CPM is derived from the NARM Job Analysis, state laws and regulations, and individual practice guidelines developed by each midwife according to her skills and knowledge.

The guiding principles of the practice of CPMs are to work with their clients to promote a healthy pregnancy and provide education to help them make informed decisions about their own care. In partnership with their clients CPMs carefully monitor the progress of the pregnancy, labor, birth, newborn, and postpartum period. They recommend appropriate management if complications arise, collaborating with other healthcare providers when necessary. The key elements of this education, monitoring, and decision making process are based on evidence-based practice which includes thoughtful integration of the best available evidence, coupled with clinical expertise, and the client’s values and needs. As such it enables midwives and their clients to address healthcare questions with an evaluative and qualitative approach. Evidence based decisions flow from a process that includes the assessment of current and past research, clinical expertise, and other information resources in order to determine the best course of care. Evidence-based practice and informed consent refers to the rights of healthcare consumers to be fully informed about testing or treatment options so that they can then make an educated choice among those options."

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OUR MODEL OF CARE

How Care Works at Birthing Miracles

At Birthing Miracles, we believe caring for a mother and baby is a relationship—not simply a series of appointments. From the moment you enter our care, our goal is to walk beside you with compassion, education, prayerful support when desired, and careful clinical attention throughout pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum season. We believe every pregnancy is a precious gift from God, and every family deserves to feel known, heard, respected, and lovingly cared for.

Prenatal Care

Your prenatal journey begins with a comprehensive initial visit where we take time to get to know you, your health history, your family, and your hopes for this pregnancy and birth. We discuss your medical history, previous pregnancies and births, nutrition, supplements, lifestyle, emotional well-being, pregnancy concerns, and your goals for care.

Throughout pregnancy, prenatal visits allow us to monitor both mother and baby and make sure pregnancy is progressing appropriately. Depending on the stage of pregnancy and your individual needs, care may include:

Maternal vital signs and physical assessments
Fetal heart rate assessment
Measuring growth and assessing fetal development
Monitoring maternal weight and overall well-being
Appropriate laboratory testing and screening
Nutrition and supplement education
Discussion of exercise, preparation for birth, and newborn care
Education about warning signs and when to contact the care team
Birth planning and informed-consent discussions
Emotional, spiritual, and family support
Time for questions and individualized education

We believe laboratory testing is an important part of responsible prenatal care. Labs provide information that cannot always be identified simply by how a mother feels. We use appropriate testing and screening to help identify potential concerns early and to guide individualized care. Testing recommendations are based on the pregnancy, clinical findings, current standards of care, and the needs and preferences of each family.

Growing Together Through Pregnancy

As pregnancy progresses, visits generally become more frequent. Early in pregnancy, appointments may be spaced farther apart when everything is progressing normally. As you move closer to meeting your baby, we see you more often so we can closely monitor your health and your baby's well-being and help you prepare physically, emotionally, and practically for birth.

Our goal is never simply to check boxes on a prenatal checklist. We want you to leave each visit feeling more educated, more prepared, and more confident.

Preparing for Birth

As you approach the final weeks of pregnancy, our visits focus increasingly on preparing you and your family for birth and the transition into parenthood. We discuss what to expect during labor, comfort measures, birth preferences, newborn care, feeding, postpartum recovery, and situations that may require additional medical evaluation.

We also discuss when to contact the team, what normal labor may look like, and what signs may indicate that additional assessment is needed.

We believe preparation creates confidence. Education is not about taking away the mystery of birth—it is about helping families walk into it with knowledge, faith, confidence, and support.

The Day of Birth

When labor begins, our team is available to provide guidance and support according to your individualized plan of care. During labor and birth, we honor the natural process whenever it is safe to do so while continuing to assess both mother and baby.

We believe a woman's body deserves the opportunity to labor and birth according to its natural physiology, while our clinical responsibility is to remain attentive to changes that may require additional care.

Birth may unfold exactly as planned, or it may take an unexpected turn. Either way, you will not be alone.

We will communicate with you, explain what we are seeing, discuss your options when circumstances change, and help you make informed decisions. If a higher level of medical care becomes necessary, our priority will always be the safety and well-being of mother and baby.

And when that precious moment finally arrives, we will celebrate with you as your miracle comes earthside.

Postpartum Care

Our relationship does not end when your baby is born. In many ways, it is just beginning.

The postpartum period is a profound transition as your body heals, your hormones change, your family adjusts, and you learn your new baby. We believe mothers deserve just as much attention and care during this season as they received during pregnancy.

Postpartum care includes assessing the mother's physical recovery, emotional well-being, bleeding, vital signs, healing, nutrition, feeding, sleep, and overall adjustment to motherhood. We also provide education and support related to newborn care and help families recognize when additional medical evaluation may be needed.

Five-Week Postpartum Visit & Laboratory Evaluation

Around five weeks postpartum, we provide a comprehensive postpartum assessment and appropriate laboratory evaluation when indicated by the individual's clinical needs and care plan. This visit gives us an opportunity to look beyond the immediate recovery period and assess how you are doing as you continue healing and adjusting to life with your baby.

Depending on your individual circumstances, laboratory evaluation may help assess areas such as blood counts or other concerns identified during pregnancy, birth, or postpartum recovery. Additional testing may be recommended when symptoms, medical history, or clinical findings indicate that it is appropriate.

This visit is also a time to talk—not just about your physical recovery, but about how you are truly doing.

How are you feeling?
How is feeding going?
How is your energy?
How is your emotional well-being?
How is your family adjusting?
What questions have come up since birth?
What support do you need moving forward?

Have you questions on your birth or your birth team?

Have or did you want to watch your birth video together?

We want to make sure that the mother who spent months caring for her growing baby is now being cared for herself.

Our Promise

At Birthing Miracles, our philosophy is to provide care that is personal, intentional, evidence-informed, compassionate, and rooted in respect for the miracle of life.

We honor the incredible design of a woman's body while recognizing the importance of appropriate screening, laboratory testing, clinical assessment, and medical collaboration when needed. We believe faith and good medicine can exist together. We believe education empowers families. We believe informed consent matters. And we believe every mother deserves to be treated with dignity and love.

From the first prenatal visit, through every appointment, through labor and birth, and into the postpartum months, we are honored to walk beside you.

Because you and your baby are miracles.