Midwife/Home Birth/Doula Services
Services we provide

"Birth & beyond"  provides a variety of services including classes  and Doula services.  We are an all  inclusive maternity practice with a Back up OB/Gyn for those choosing hospital birth or who have risk factors that make them unable to deliver at home. 

 The Following is a list of of some of the services we provide:

                                    Complete Prenatal Care:

 

  • Holistic Prenatal care
  • all prenatal testing
  • Fertility counseling
  • Nutritional counseling
  • Breech therapy for correcting baby positioning
  •   Annual Pap Physical and Breast exam
  • ultrasounds
  • review of abnormal labs
  • informed consent
  • self care policy
  • centered group prenatals ( starts every 3 months)
  • WIC form completions
  • Teen services

 

                                    Education and Support services:

Doula services and childbirth education

  • New baby care Classes
  • Belly-yo birth classes only $225.00 (1- 4 hour class or 2 -3 hour classes) 
  • Doula services  range between $ 400-600
  • We offer Childbirth education
  • Lactation and breast feeding consultations
  • Breast feeding classes
  • Newborn/ Postdelivery adaptation
  • Every Mother delivering with us has the full use of our doulas
  • Birth Planning ( all of our moms use a birth plan as  part of her care)
  • We are on call 24 hours

                                            Other Holistic and Healing therapy offered"

Body Talk and Energy work                                 

Reflux energy therapy and Wellness coaching

 African Dance and Belly Dance classes

  Mammaste Prenatal Yoga

Reiki

Yoga/CHakra Therap

Herbology

Theta Healing

Wellness/ Life coaching

and Holistic Family Medicine offered By Dr. Woliner

 Holistic Women's Health including; homeopath, Naturopathy,herbology and Complimentary and Alternative Medicine

                     

 

 

 

 

 

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                                       Labor and Delivery Services:

  • We offer complete labor and delivery services
  • A midwife, birth assistant and certified doula attends the birth
  • A back up on call physican is available  to our clients
  • Emergency supplies and equipment equal to that in a hospital delivery  room
  • Water birth
  • Postpartum management  including visits within 72 hours of delivery and again at 4-6 weeks.
  • Newborn Care
  • We process both the baby's birth certificate and social security card 
  • Bonding and attachement parenting beginning immediate after birth

 

Options and Benefits you have with us that you dont get at the Hospital:

 Birth site location can be homebirth or hospital; some women choose to deliver in the hospital although they have seen the midwife at the center throughout the pregnancy ( assigned OB will deliver hospital clients)

With our Midwives your birth experience is truly yours:

  • woman can eat and drink in labor
  • women are allowed to be mobile, we encourage walking, the use of a birth ball  or sitting in  a rocking chair as a comfort technique. In the hospital setting women are confined to the bed.
  • children are allowed to be present at birth
  • we do not limit the number of people who can attend your birth experience with you
  • the use of photography or video is allowed
  • women can choose Dim light birthing, leboyer bath or apply other techniques of their choosing.
  • Father assisted catching
  • We do not perform routine episiotomies
  • We do not do any invasive procedures or use drugs that will affect the normal labor pattern or cause the babies heart rate to drop as in the hospital setting ( epidural,pitocin, sleep medicaition are not used by us)
  • fetal doppler monitoring to allow mobility
  • massage
  • acupressure/reflexolgy
  • One on one monitoring during the labor, delivery and postpartum stage
  • Complete newborn physical and assistance with bonding and breastfeeding in the first hour
  • Delayed cord cutting and immediate baby on mom bonding
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  Making appointments/Insurance and Other important Information:

You can call and schedule a free consultation appointment at any time. 954-861-8203

All clients are seen by appointment only to assure V.I.P. care to all of our clients.

Insurance Info and payments:

  • We accept most insurances and have flex payment plans and fee schedules
  • We also accept all HMO and PPO plans including AETNA,UNITED HEALTH CARE,CIGNA and VISTA to name a few.
  • You can request a fee schedule for our services
  • We also accept cash paying clients
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  •                        Fee Schedule  We have changed our fee schedule to assist uninsured women

Insured patients only: Fees are $ 5100 is the fee to all insured women this fee can not be adjusted (you are responsible for all copays and deductibles)

Uninsured patients only: $ 2975 / 0-12 weeks  2800/ 13-28 2650 /29-40 2250 35 to term with complete records   This fee does not include labs you may pay for them on our sister site at www.mammastewell.com Ultrasounds are 125.00 initial / 80 for second one. This fee is a global fee includes breastfeeding/ newborn class and complete labor and delivery services. Does not include a doula or childbirth education classes. (labs from previous health record accepted. 

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