A Traditional Midwife is an apprentice-trained midwife which is a style of formal training involving both the clinical portion and the didactic portion within one’s midwifery education.

I believe all my experiences have been vital to where I am now. I have attended over 300 births, beginning birth work in 2003 and midwifery training in 2016. I have trained with several midwives with various backgrounds with over 20 years of experience combined. I have a masters in counseling with over 15 years of social services. Trained in birth emergencies, NPR and CPR.

Initial visit is ideally done at 10-12, consist of review of one’s medical history, risk assessment, nutritional analysis, and more. This visit is usually 90 mins.

During the first trimester appointments are done every 4 weeks until 28 weeks.

During second trimester appointments are done every 2 weeks from 28 to 36 weeks gestation

During 3rd trimester appointments are done every week from 36 weeks until birth

Once the parent is at 37 weeks the birth team is on-call.

After birth we provide immediate postpartum examination and monitoring for baby and you to assess and ensure everything is normal.

Postpartum visits happen within 24 hours and again at 72 hours of birth; followed by a 2 week and 6 week visit.

Pap smear performed if needed and/or desired.

At The Counseling Midwife, your care team will include a secondary midwife including myself as your primary midwife. Traditional learning models that provide hands-on experience are a central tenet of midwifery education and important during the learning stages of a young midwife’s journey.

We offer non traditional counseling that seek to provide a humanistic and holistic model by creating and maintaining a safe space while walking besides individuals in discovering their own discovery, solutions, healing, restoration and self-mastery in life.

We provide counseling for pre-conception, postpartum, maternal life coaching, parenthood, stress management, anxiety, depression, grief & loss, and trauma.

Anything that requires a higher level of medical monitoring in your pregnancy would rule you out from midwifery care. Those are:

- Breech

- Twins or other multiple pregnancy

- Preexisting Diabetes Mellitus that requires medication to control

- Preexisting Hypertension

- Epilepsy

- Current addiction to narcotics

-Significant heart disease

-Kidney disease

-Liver disease

- Any other issues that might require a cesarean delivery

Midwives view birth as normal and trained and qualified to attend emergencies as they arise. However, a midwife is not a doctor and some conditions warrant consultation with a physician and some that are better to be handled in a medical facility. we would discuss these conditions if they arise and recommend interventions as thoroughly as possible given the circumstances.

If a situation requires consultation, transfer of care, or transport to a hospital arises during the course of your care, the midwife will facilitate the process by referring you to an appropriate care provider. If you transfer to a hospital during labor, birth or immediate postpartum, the midwife will remain with you in a supportive role, but medical care will become the responsibility of the doctor and hospital.

The total cost for our services is $6500 to be paid in full by 36 weeks, which includes prenatal care, labor and birth support, postpartum care and more. Payment plans are available.

We offer sliding scale opportunities for BIPOC families facing economical hardship upon request who will go through an honorable and integral screening process.

We serve Philadelphia & the surrounding areas, approximately one-hour service area maximum.