Midwifery

Our midwives are maternity care providers that attend and manage home and birth center births and hospital births if a transfer from a planned birth center or home birth is necessary. They have expertise in reproductive care including birth, prenatal and postpartum care, and newborn care. Midwives offer standard prenatal care, including diagnostic testing. They offer mothers and their families individualized care and strive to address each family’s physical, emotional and spiritual needs.

Medical studies show that for low-risk pregnancies, out-of-hospital births attended by midwives are as safe if not safer than in-hospital-births.

Our midwives deliver babies at the Mount Vernon Birth Center and attend home births.