Licensed midwife and massage therapist offering healing touch to families in Santa Cruz county and Big Sur, CA. Prenatal massage, postpartum massage, and general wellness massage. Long Meadow is a trail in the mountains of my hometown that provides a view of the ocean from atop a glorious meadow. It has always been my place of solitude, gratitude, peace and ease.
I imagine it like a person at the onset of labor, anticipating the arrival of their new baby. They can imagine their baby, but have a long path to travel to meet them. The same way there is the view of the ocean far in the distance but still visible, and the long winding path leading the way. I am a licensed home birth midwife offering postpartum care, and the healing touch of massage in Santa Cruz county and surrounding areas.
I imagine it like a person at the onset of labor, anticipating the arrival of their new baby. They can imagine their baby, but have a long path to travel to meet them. The same way there is the view of the ocean far in the distance but still visible, and the long winding path leading the way. I am a licensed home birth midwife offering postpartum care, and the healing touch of massage in Santa Cruz county and surrounding areas.
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Midwifery is the most timeless profession I can imagine and I feel honored every time I am granted the pleasure of witnessing a person give birth. I strongly believe in pregnancy, labor, birth and postpartum as a transformational experience that ideally empowers a person to take ownership of their body and their healthcare.
In our culture there is much focus on the birth, and while this is certainly a remarkable event, the postpartum period is not to be forgotten. Postpartum is a time of deep tenderness, vulnerability and learning for all people involved. Both new parents are navigating how to care for this tiny human on the outside, while experiencing sleeplessness, exhaustion and hormonal changes.
Midwife means "with woman" in old English, and in its truest meaning is exactly that. A midwife is extensively trained to assist a client from pregnancy, through labor and birth, and into the postpartum period.
She is the pregnant person's care provider in every sense; she provides comprehensive care including blood work, referrals for ultrasounds and tests, as well as active listening and guidance surrounding the normalities and low-risk complications of normal pregnancy, birth and postpartum.Under the care of a midwife there is no need to establish care with an OB if everything stays low-risk and normal.
She is the pregnant person's care provider in every sense; she provides comprehensive care including blood work, referrals for ultrasounds and tests, as well as active listening and guidance surrounding the normalities and low-risk complications of normal pregnancy, birth and postpartum.Under the care of a midwife there is no need to establish care with an OB if everything stays low-risk and normal.
My answer clear and simple is, "DEFINITELY!" My daughter Moon, spent nearly every part of everyday together with Rachel, who's prime focus on life was to be there 100% for Moon in any capacity needed. Rachel was calm, patient, soothing, knowledgable, gentle, supportive, and nurturing from the moment she arrived.
