Private Independent Midwife Care Package
What does our Private Midwife Care Package offer you?
- We offer two highly experienced midwives who provide friendly, private midwifery care for all your pregnancy, labour, the birth and after baby is born.
- We offer regular, unhurried private antenatal appointments in your home where we check on you and your and baby’s health with time to discuss any fears or concerns and discuss plans for the birth with you and your partner.
- We can provide all midwife care either for homebirth or for birth in hospital from early labour until after baby is born.
- Our private midwifery care is individually tailored to your needs. We spend time with you to build a professional friendship so that you both feel safe, supported and empowered in your choices and decisions.
- We are available for telephone support and advice (in addition to regular antenatal appointments) and will be on-call for you 24/7 from 37 weeks of pregnancy.
- We arrange all blood tests and scans and consultant appointments should you require them
- We are committed to enabling you and your partner to make the best choices possible for you and your baby during pregnancy, labour and birth and in the weeks after the birth. For this we offer you the most recent research-based information on all relevant topics.
- We maintain excellent links with our NHS colleagues as between us both we have worked in all local maternity units. We can arrange Consultant appointments or any extra tests for you should they be required. We will come with you to any hospital appointment if you wish.
- After your baby is born, we provide expert private postnatal midwifery care, checking on you and your baby’s wellbeing daily to begin with for up to a month after birth; giving advice on practical babycare; supporting you with breastfeeding and providing emotional support and guidance to you and your partner as you all adjust to family life together.
- We are regularly in trained in dealing with emergencies for both mother and baby and carry equipment and drugs for this purpose