homebirth attendance with martha

For homebirth attendance I offer everything in Sovereign Birth Prep and I'm on-call to attend your birth and immediate postpartum as an experienced birth witness or birth keeper.*  

Ask about joining our private membership, Motherwit Ways.

To connect with me, please sign up on the main page of this site for a discovery session. 

HERE'S HOW WE BEGIN

We create a trust-based relationship at our pre-birth connection sessions. We may do the following:

* Walk together, literally take walks together.

* Clarify the difference between in-system and sovereign homebirth.

* I get acquainted with your family and your other birth supporters.

* Clarify prenatal care options: wild pregnancy,** self-testing, some in system tests.

* Explore using tools such as a Doppler, fetoscope, checking vitals, etc. for self-care. Again, none of this involves medical advice or the presumption that I am acting as a medical practitioner. 

* Explore using intuition and understanding instinct injury*** for self-care.

* Clarify variations of normal and "what ifs" on:

         - pregnancy and things that may happen

         - fetal position

         - labor patterns  

         - baby's emergence/the moment of birth

         - placenta birth

         - newborn breathing/appearance

         - what "normal" means in the first place.

* What to do when immediate response is needed such as a hemorrhage or to help baby breathe. (What to do as a capable adult human, not as a medical provider.)

* Nutrition, herbs, homeopathy, embodiment, meds, and how these are unique to each person.

* Untangle your dreams, fears, whatever else needs untangling. 

* Birth story integration if you've birthed prior.

* Clarify the facts about hospital transfer.

* Clarify your postpartum visions and plans.

Everything is optional, and we may do other things too. Partners and children are welcome at these meetings.

WHEN I'M AT A BIRTH

I'm present as an intuitive and experienced birth witness and wise woman.

I center and exalt the birthing woman as she moves freely through her birth portal, gives birth, and begins mothering her newborn earthside. 

I may:

- Support the mother during her birth process/aka labor.

- Support the mother during baby's emergence, placenta birth, and just post birth.

- Hold the energy and clear the energy if needed.

- Help with children, partners, food, drink, clean-up, other logistics.

- Share my opinion. 

- Respond in the moment.

- Be in another room the whole time.

- Pray or worship with the family according to their beliefs.

- After the baby is born, I stay until mother and baby are both fed and snuggled in, baby and mom are stable, things are cleaned up, and the family is okay with me heading out.

None of this is timed; this no timing part is foundational to how I serve.

POSTPARTUM

I offer 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 the mother spiritually, physically, hormonally, and energetically, and with food, teas, and more.

- Explore the newborn with the family, such as how's he doing physically and energetically.

- Listen to the mother or partner, and then listen to them some more.

- Breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, or pumping support + help with everything newborn.

- Help with older children, pets, errands.

- Help with paperwork.

- Go to appointments with the family.

- Explore keeping your newborn wild or ways to present her to the system.

MY OFFERINGS TO MY CLIENTS:

-Sessions during pregnancy (no limit).

-Phone and electronic communication daytime beginning after first payment.

-On-call to come to the birth starting from about 36 weeks pregnant until whenever baby is born.

-Presence during labor, birth, and at least a few hours post birth.

-Postpartum visits for about a month, daytime.

-Sign a written contract or agree to an energetic contract. 

CLIENTS OFFERINGS TO ME:

-Money, ask about details

-Bartering may be possible, just ask

-Sign a written contract or agree to an energetic contract. 

There are no time limits on any of this. The birthing woman decides as to exactly when I should head over for the birth.

I ask $3400 to $3700 as an exchange for this service.  If you do not have access to money to cover the usual exchange let me know and we'll work something out. When we're called to walk together money will not divide us. 

MORE

 - Birth tub 

 - Placenta encapsulation 

 - Traveling birth attendant.

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Travel birth attendant (ask to  join our membership) means I come to you at an agreed date, starting at 39-40 weeks gestation for example, and stay at an airbnb until a few days after you birth. There's an additional fee for this. 

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Many of the women I've walked with have had pregnancies that involved zero or minimal state-controlled surveillance or in-system medical treatments.

Some of the women I've walked with went sovereign mid-pregnancy. 

And some of the women I've walked with were in-system throughout pregnancy, and birthed in sovereignty.

*   To my knowledge, Jeannine Pravatti Baker coined the phrase "birth keeper."

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

*** To my knowledge, Clarissa Pinkola Estés coined the phrase "instinct injury."                                  

Sincerely, Martha

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I am not responsible for any conduct of anyone who looks on this site, looks on any of my media, talks to me, or works with me, etc.

Under no circumstances including but not limited to negligence am I Martha or Motherwit Ways responsible or liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential damage to anyone who looks on this site, looks on any of my media, talks to me, or works with me.

I am not a medical provider or medical professional.  I do not answer to any medical authorities, nor am I under any obligation to any medical or governmental authorities. This is the premise of being a sovereign birth worker.

I am not an authority over anyone.  I do not act as an authority over my clients.