midwife or birthkeeper

I walk with women and families as a birthkeeper* or as a private midwife. Ask about joining our membership.

This is homebirth free from the system. 

DURING YOUR PREGNANCY

We create a trust-based relationship at our pre-birth connection sessions. We may do the following (everything is optional):

* see why birth is designed to work best when it's undisturbed

* clarify the difference between in-system homebirth and sovereign homebirth

* I get to know your partner and family

* ways to encourage a healthy pregnancy

* clarify prenatal care options: wild pregnancy,** self testing, some in system tests 

* clarify variations of normal on pregnancy, labor, birth, placenta birth, and more

* go over newborn appearance 

* explore the "what ifs"

* untangle  your dreams, fears, concerns, family stories and imprints, +

* birth story integration

* go over the facts about hospital transfer 

* create a postpartum plan

* integrate your partner or anyone else in your orbit to the concept of sovereign birth

* ways to return the power of MOTHER to newborns and how we're imprinted away from this instinct.

AT YOUR BIRTH SPACE

I'm present in my own authority as an intuitive and experienced birth witness. You are centered and exalted as you move freely through your birth process, give birth, and begin mothering your child earthside. 

I may:

- hold the energy and clear the energy if needed

- pray with you according to your beliefs or religion

- support you during your birth process/aka labor

- support you during baby's emergence, placenta birth, and more

- help with children, partners, others 

- offer food, drink, clean-up

- share my opinion 

- be one room away for most/all of your birth process

- show up just after you've birthed your baby

- stay with you for days and nights when your birth process ebbs and flows.

- I stay with you after your baby is born until you're snuggled in with your baby, things are cleaned up, and you're okay with me heading out.

POSTPARTUM

I offer post birth support during the daytime, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for a few days or weeks post birth. Usually these sessions are two to three hours.       

I may:

- nourish you

- listen to you, and then listen to you some more

- breastfeeding support + help with everything newborn

- ceremony

- help with older children, pets, household chores, errands.

- explore keeping your newborn wild or ways to present her/him to the system.

MORE

 - Birth tub 

 - Placenta encapsulation 

 - Travel midwife

Your offering, aka the fee: $3600 to $3900. This covers unlimited prenatal meetings, unlimited phone, email, and text from your first payment to two weeks post birth, on-call to come to your birth from 36 or 37 weeks pregnant until you birth, presence during your labor, birth, and immediate post birth time. There's no time limits on any of this. I come to you when YOU call me to you. 

My presence is not contingent on your gestation, labor pattern, what happened during your prior pregnancies, or anything else going on with you such as your medical conditions/labels, your lifestyle, your partner's lifestyle, your income, the details of your birth space, how much food you have in your home at a given time, etc. 

The fee range is primarily determined by a one-time mileage fee and some other things. 

Travel birthkeeper means I come to you at an agreed date, 39 weeks gestation for example, and stay at an airb until a few days after you birth. There's an additional fee for this. 

If you do not have access to the amount of money stated above, let me know and we'll work something out. When we're called to walk together money will not divide us. 

To connect with me, please email doulawoman@gmail.com or sign up on the main page of this site for a discovery session. This free session is for women who're already familiar with the concept of sovereign birth. The discovery session is on Zoom or may be in person when you're within 10 miles of Mke.

Any woman may birth in sovereignty. This means "may birth," and not that anyone "should" do this.

 * To my knowledge Jeannine Parvati Baker coined the term "birthkeeper."

** To my knowledge Yolande Clark coined the phrase "wild pregnancy."

Sincerely, Martha