Midwife Reading

The Heart of PFB

Desirre Andrews CPM, RM and Tiffany Miller CPM, RM work together to care for our home birth clients and their families the way we would like to be cared for ourselves. We approach the midwifery model of care with a holistic sense that a woman is far more than a “walking uterus,” with emotional, mental, and spiritual needs in addition to the many physical needs the childbearing year entails.

We view midwifery as a joint responsibility between midwife and client. Our responsibility is to help equip you for a healthy childbearing year in whatever ways we can, from information and research, to a kind listening ear, to referrals for care needs beyond our scope of practice. Your responsibility as our client is to be open and honest with us in expressing your needs, asking lots of questions, and deciding what to do with the information and recommendations we make for you and your baby.

Our standard for “healthy mom, healthy baby,” means far more to us than both of you come out of your childbearing year alive. We want to see moms who are healthy physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. We want to see babies thriving and growing, being integrated as a whole new human into a family unit in love and connection. By the time your final postpartum rolls around at six weeks, we hope to hear and see evidence that everyone is doing well, even if there have been some bumps along the way.

Your childbearing year is a transformative one, and you and your baby deserve good, solid, dependable, kind, respectful, loving, joyful, and healthy care. That is exactly what we strive to offer to every client, no matter who you are or where you come from.

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