Birth Support

1. Birth Workers fill in systemic gaps in care. Their role is strictly non-clinical, allowing them to focus instead on the emotional, educational, and physical needs of the mother and her partner. 

2. Birth Worker’s provide a sense of continuity in the mother’s care that is typically lost in a large institutional setting. 

3. BWs provide a range of comfort measures for the laboring woman, including massage, assistance with relaxation techniques, and more. 

4. BW’s Provide Emotional support and hold non Judgmental sage space for the Birth Parents to process emotions.

4. They encourage the mother while including the partner in support efforts, helping him/her/them to participate as desired. 

5. BWs encourage their clients to engage in informed decision making with health care providers, helping provide information and a full range of options so that parents claim responsibility for their choices. Their role is non-adversarial and BWs do not give medical advice. 

6. Before, during, and after birth, BWs attempt to meet the educational needs of clients, including teaching coping techniques, assisting with development of a birth plan, and providing evidence-based information on pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and newborn care topics.

7. BWs attend births in a variety of settings: hospitals, birth centers, and at home. BWs support all birth styles medicated, non medicated, vaginal, cesarean and Vbac. 

8. Our services include prenatal care provider consultation, labor support and postpartum care services. Birth Workers are trained and/or certified and receive additional training to ensure a consistent philosophy and standard of practice. Additionally, there are a variety of BWs this allows each family to find a perfect match for their individual needs.