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Sarah Lavelle

Many Hands Make Light Work: Our Team Model of Midwifery

March 28, 2019 By Sarah Lavelle 1 Comment

Even before touring our peaceful birthing suites and chatting with a Beach Cities Midwife (link to midwives splash page) about our practice and their options for care with us during a free consultation, a common question from people considering pregnancy care and birthing with us is, “do I get to pick my midwife?”

A good first answer is, in a way, yes! When clients join our practice, they pick all 5 of our expert midwives as their care providers, along with the ability and flexibility to be seen by each of them at any or all of our three locations (link to locations page). We work with each client to schedule appointments strategically as their care progresses to make sure they have lots of time with each midwife.

As far as routine pregnancy care is concerned, our group model of care is one in which clients benefit from the perspective and wisdom of practitioners with different backgrounds and areas of expertise. One midwife may draw from her familiarity with herbs and homeopathy, while another uses her own past birthing experiences, and another her extensive clinical history. They share knowledge with each other and Beach Cities families profit from a deep bench of talent. By seeing each of the midwives for half-hour-long appointments several times over the course of care, clients become familiar with each midwife, and vice versa. Additionally, for families in their third trimester, we also provide Meet The Midwives teas at each of our locations. These are a time to meet and hear from any of the midwives they haven’t yet met, and spend more time with the ones they have.

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What is a Midwife?

February 12, 2019 By Sarah Lavelle Leave a Comment

Midwife BJ supporting a hospital birth

“Good beginnings make a positive difference in the world, so it is worth our while to provide the best possible care for mothers and babies throughout this extraordinarily influential part of life.”

-Ina May Gaskin, American Midwife

Seek a modern definition of a midwife, and you may find something that brings to mind an OB in Birkenstocks. It’s an unusual term, an historic catch-all term for professionals with a wide variety of training, experience, and settings of care.

Midwife Vickie with a fresh cutie

Pared down to its original and simplest meaning, a midwife (mid=with, wife=woman or mother) is one who is there with women, there with mothers, right in the thick of the growings and beginnings of life.

As we define them, midwives are highly trained medical providers who give attentive and expert care in low-risk birth and reproductive health, including postpartum needs and family planning. Their scope is the wide range of normal, not immediately seeing pathology and danger around every corner, but carefully counseling patients, seeing each as the gatekeeper of her own health, a co-researcher and someone whose opinion and experience is of value in the patient/provider relationship.

Midwife Birgitte in one of our out of hospital birth centers

In general, midwives are interested in healthy outcomes with the least intervention, focusing on patient education and positive lifestyle choices whenever possible. They take time to listen and become a trusted source for the families they serve, not just during the childbearing years, but for life.

Our next post will illuminate our Beach Cities model of care, which is a team model of care – midwives supporting each other, as they have always done.

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Beach Cities Midwifery & Women’s Healthcare strives to provide the utmost care to all of our patients across a broad spectrum of social & economic environments. With our staff of highly trained midwives & doulas, it is our goal to give each expecting mother the highest in care, comfort & quality at all of our birth centers.
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Long Beach, CA 90808
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