queer family building, ttc, iui, lesbian pregnancy

inclusive and wholistic wellness

  Village Midwifery & Family Care is a private midwifery care practice that focuses on offering preconception, fertility, intrauterine insemination (IUI), prenatal, labor and birth, postpartum, and newborn healthcare for the Renton (and neighboring) community. 

Our model of care includes a combination of integrative health coaching and comprehensive midwifery care.  

Our clients may choose from a number of care plans—anything from a specific health coaching program, to a fertility consultation, to a full prenatal, birth, and postpartum plan. 

 

We provide comprehensive midwifery care while collaborating, referring, consulting, and transferring, when appropriate, with local healthcare providers including, but not limited to, doulas, social workers, obstetric-gynecologic and family practice physicians, pediatricians, psycho-social services, and fertility specialists.

 

our philosophy

We believe in the physiological capacity for diverse fertility, non-pathologic pregnancy and birth, postpartum recovery, and inter-pregnancy wellness.  

We practice from a baseline belief that all bodies have the capacity for fertility, pregnancy, birth, and parenthood.

And that actively minimizing physical and emotional trauma is necessary for objective parental and newborn health and safety.

 
 
 
 

Midwifery model of care

The Midwives Model of Care™ is based on the fact that pregnancy and birth are normal life events. The Midwives Model of Care includes:

  • monitoring the physical, psychological and social well-being of the birthing parent throughout the childbearing cycle

  • providing the birthing parent with individualized education, counseling, and prenatal care, continuous hands-on assistance during labor and delivery, and postpartum support

  • minimizing technological interventions and

  • identifying and referring birthing people who require obstetrical attention

The application of this model has been proven to reduce to incidence of birth injury, trauma, and cesarean section. 

 (Midwives Model of Care definition is Copyrighted © by the Midwifery Task Force, all rights reserved)

Practice development & accountability

We are committed to the continued development of our practice for:

  • the improvement of clinical and business quality

  • accountability towards reproductive justice and equity

  • and for the sustainability of each of our team members through continued personal growth and development

We strive for this through:

  • quarterly self-audits

  • attendance in webinars/workshops/conferences

  • reading of relevant literature, books, journals

  • and engaging in peer review

We are proud to share this process and welcome other healthcare providers and our clients to consider participating along with us.

We also welcome suggestions, feel free to contact us here.

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