What does your perfect birth experience look like?
Do you have specific ideas regarding the roles you and your family should play in that experience?
Do you want a medical professional who will be by your side through the ENTIRE labor and birth?
If this sounds like you, why not call a midwife?
TriHealth Women’s Services Midwife Care in West Chester offers a highly personal approach to maternity care that is both fresh and time-tested. The midwifery approach to childbirth establishes Mom as not just the patient, but an active partner in her own care. Whether you choose to go through childbirth naturally in the hospital or you elect an epidural, the midwives are there to support you in your decision and your preferred birth plan.
A Personal Approach to Pregnancy
Forming deep bonds with patients and their families is the cornerstone of the nurse-midwife experience. Patients receive extended one-on-one time during visits, personalized birth plans, and a more continuous presence during labor.
“Midwives encourage parents and their support people to participate actively in childbirth,” explains Linda Brackett, CNM with TriHealth Women’s Services Midwife Care. “Patients are welcome to bring music and aromatherapy—anything to create a comforting environment. We stay by each patient’s side throughout all stages of labor and delivery, helping her breathe and push through pain, and providing physical and emotional support.”
State-of-the-Art Facilities
Midwives with TriHealth Midwife Care in West Chester offer deliveries at Bethesda North Hospital and work closely with the physicians at TriHealth Women’s Services Comprehensive OB-GYN. TriHealth midwives will be with you every step of your journey, offering reassurances and a personal connection.
Nurse midwives are clinically trained to provide maternity care and a range of other women’s health services, but they also work collaboratively with OB-GYN physicians and other specialists should complications arise during pregnancy or labor. Patients who have a high-risk pregnancy or those who may need the clinical resources of a Level III NICU may be cared for at TriHealth Good Samaritan Hospital.
Midwives Offer Alternatives
For first time mothers, understanding what to expect can make pregnancy much less stressful. Midwives take a personal approach to the childbirth experience, recognizing the woman as a unique individual in the context of her family. Furthermore, midwives honor the new family by involving them as much as possible in the labor journey. For some women, the midwifery approach helps alleviate their concerns through:
- Personalized patient education in preparation for delivery and parenting
- Personalized birth plans
- Natural birthing options for delivery
- A variety of options for pain relief during labor, including epidural and assistance with position changes.
Midwives Provide Preconception and Follow-up Care
Midwives are available, of course, for their pregnant patients, providing prenatal and postnatal care, as well as helping with the baby’s birth, but they are also available to provide care throughout a woman’s life. Like other healthcare providers, midwives can prescribe medications, order tests and refer to specialists for routine and preventative appointments.
Among the many services TriHealth midwives provide are:
- Preconception counseling
- Breastfeeding support and skin-to-skin contact
- Newborn care support and guidance
- Family-centered medical care that can continue throughout childbirth and past menopause
If you are interested in learning more about the TriHealth midwives, you can start by calling,
