Hospital Birth Services
The benefits of care by the same midwife from beginning to end of your pregnancy and birth journey:
Heather and Kelly provide personalized pregnancy care that is empowering and supportive of your decisions!
Unrushed visits up to an hour long
A relationship instead of transactional appointments with providers who don’t know you well
Nourishment of your mind, body, and spirit
Preparation for labor, birth, and postpartum with a plan and preferences that match your desires and goals
Convenient, comfortable in-home prenatal care, postpartum, and newborn care
Direct access to Heather or Kelly anytime throughout pregnancy and postpartum via email, phone calls or text messages so that no question goes unanswered between visits.
Learn more about how we work.
In-home pregnancy care
You will receive in-home, personalized pregnancy care starting at 12 weeks. Monthly visits continue until 32 weeks, twice monthly from 32-38 weeks, then weekly at 38 weeks.
Heather even provides in-home prenatal and postpartum care to planned, repeat cesarean birth clients. One additional visit is mandatory with a physician to do a consult/preoperative visit performed at 32 weeks. This is only offered through Sentara RMH associated with the OB laborists in Harrisonburg at this time.
Labor and birth in the hospital
Heather will soon be attending births with hospital privileges starting with due dates in January 2025. She is currently working out a collaboration with the physicians at Augusta Health. There is also the option for Heather or Kelly to be present in a doula role for labor and birth for clients that wish to give birth at a hospital other than Augusta Health in Fishersville. Kelly does not have hospital privileges for the Charlottesville/Richmond area so she works in a doula role only during labor and birth at the hospital.
In-home postpartum and newborn care
Clients receive in-home postpartum and newborn visits on the following schedule:
-24 hour in-hospital visit, discharge home
-1 week postpartum
-2 weeks postpartum
-6 weeks postpartum
Each visit consists of assessments and education for both mom and baby. This means that your baby doesn’t need to leave your home to see a pediatrician until they are 2 months old, unless there is a problem or concern.
Direct access
Clients have direct access to their personal midwife by phone, text, or email every day of pregnancy until 6 weeks postpartum. Questions are always addressed in 48 hours or less, or more emergent concerns within minutes.
12+ in-home personalized prenatal visits
In-home fetal anatomy ultrasound
Creation of birth plan and postpartum plan
All routine lab work (does not include gender or genetic testing)
Doula support from your midwife in the hospital of your choice, or delivery with Heather at Augusta Health in Fishersville
3 in-home postpartum and newborn care visits
Direct access to your personal midwife throughout pregnancy and postpartum via phone, text, or email
Comprehensive Package Fee for Hospital Birth
12+ in-home personalized prenatal visits
In-home fetal anatomy ultrasound
Creation of a postpartum plan
All routine lab work (does not include gender or genetic testing)
Support from your midwife in the hospital on the day of your scheduled cesarean
3 in-home postpartum and newborn care visits
Direct access to your personal midwife throughout pregnancy and postpartum via phone, text, or email
Comprehensive Package Fee for Scheduled Cesarean Birth
Are you uninsured or do you have Medicaid?
Starting in September 2024, Heather will be opening an office within the walls of Waynesboro FM Church that specifically caters to pregnant teens, college students, and young single mothers to provide personalized, unhurried, prenatal and postpartum visits to women who don’t carry health insurance or have Medicaid. This care is only for those who are planning a hospital birth at Augusta Health in Fishersville or a c-section at Sentara RMH.
We will also have a labor doula program completely covered by Medicaid!
Find out more about this exciting new non-profit- The Village Prenatal Clinic.