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.
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We aim to support the individual physical, emotional, and psychosocial goals of people including the LGBTQPOC+ members in their process of family building and establishing overall wellbeing with evidence-based, culturally sensitive, anti-racist, and sustainable healthcare and coaching.
We recognize and affirm the right to individualized care plans, body agency, informed choice, and safety throughout every step of family planning and parenthood. As a small business, our mission is to support access to our healthcare services while also protecting the sustainability of our staff and supporting personnel.
It is our goal that every member of the Village Midwifery community will experience empowering, safe, and personalized healthcare.
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To increase awareness and access to Latinx, queer, and trauma-informed fertility, pregnancy, and parenting care for the Renton and neighboring communities. To collaborate to strengthen local relationships among the health and wellness community. And to expand options for alternative, individualized health and wellness.
All, while growing a sustainable small business model.
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As a BIPOC-owned small business within the American healthcare system, we acknowledge the financial challenges we face as a midwifery practice. We strive to provide accessible healthcare while also protecting the sustainability of our personnel.
For the time being, insurance companies do not provide sustainable reimbursement options to support the survival of this practice; as a result, we currently offer direct-to-patient care, bypassing medical insurance companies, and accepting only cash-pay clients with financial aid and payment plans upon request.
(Visit our Financial page for more information regarding cost of care and payment options.)
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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