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Portland Midwives | Hearth and Home Midwifery | Portland OR
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Natural Home Birth Midwifery Services in Portland, OR, Vancouver, WA, and the Surrounding Areas

Holistic Pregnancy care for you and your baby

NATURAL, SAFE, PERSONALIZED MIDWIFE SERVICES

Pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum can be exciting, emotional, and transformative. Let Hearth and Home help you fully understand your options and give you the best care for your family. As professional midwives, we offer a broad range of prenatal, home birth, and natural birth services, and are here to support your journey. We stay by your side before, during, as well as after the arrival of your baby, while honoring your decision making and helping you to have the birth experience of your dreams.

 

Feel Empowered to Give Birth on Your Terms

Get the care you deserve

You’ll work with the same midwives from beginning to end. This ensures our undivided attention and continuity of care. We truly cherish the relationships we develop with our clients!

Make your own choices

During your journey from pregnancy to birth to postpartum, we’ll help you understand all your available options so you can make the right decisions for you and your baby.

Include Your whole Family

We encourage you to involve your spouse, partner, parents, siblings — anyone you want to share in the excitement that surrounds having your baby. It can be a wonderful bonding opportunity.

What Are Midwifery Services?

To us at Hearth & Home, midwifery is more than just a healthcare profession. It's our calling. As midwives, we attend to the pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum care needs of birthing people. Here’s a taste of what midwifery services we can offer you:

  • Natural birth services, birth at home, and water birth
  • Routine exams and lab work you’d have at any birthing facility
  • Education and counseling on all facets of pregnancy including mood, clinical care, nutrition and supplements, movement, and exercise
  • Newborn well-care support such as feeding and lactation, weight and vitals, bilirubin, blood sugars, normal behaviors and how to interpret them
  • Well-person postpartum care including healing from birth, postpartum mood support, and breast health
  • Holistic, natural, alternative, and complementary wellness

We know that our work is deeply personal and intimate, and that our services can have an impactful and lasting imprint on you and your family’s lives.

All the midwives at Hearth and Home are Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) and are licensed in Oregon and Washington.

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Professional Portland Home Birth Specialists

Complete Care for You & Your Baby

Our thoughtfully-crafted system of care enables us to:

  • Incorporate the standard prenatal care protocols
  • Leverage our expertise on natural home birth and water birth
  • Offer supplementary herbal and dietary approaches
  • Retain the flexibility necessary to optimize your plan
  • Provide for ongoing, individualized service and support

This leads to an optimal birth experience, one in which you’re in charge and know that what you did was in the best interest for you and your baby.

Natural Birth in Your Own Home

The complete package - everything included

A lot goes into bringing a new baby into the world. With that in mind, here’s a quick snapshot of what’s included in our midwifery package:

  • Hour-long prenatal appointments covering physical exams, comprehensive lifestyle and supplement support, and preventative care for the complications of pregnancy
  • In-office labs and genetic testing plus referrals for ultrasounds
  • A home visit between 35-37 weeks to plan for the big day
  • Continuous care and support during labor, birth, and the first few hours after delivery
  • Full physical exam of your newborn, comprehensive breastfeeding support, and at least three one-hour postpartum visits in your home
  • Two additional postpartum visits back in our office
  • 24/7 on-call access to a midwife for any emergent situations
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But there's even more for you...

You know the saying, “Knowledge is power.” It’s also a huge factor in self-assurance and success when it comes to pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting.

We want you to have confidence in yourself and to know what to expect in all situations so that you can have your best experience and outcomes.

We offer a comprehensive and informative course on childbirth that you can take. It covers everything you should know about birth from the anatomy of labor and what to expect to comfort measures and interventions. It also teaches your partner how to best support you through everything.

Testimonials

What our clients are saying

Services Testimonials

There is no doubt in my mind that choosing Heath and Home Midwifery was the best decision that my husband and I made as first-time parents. Throughout our time together, we were continually amazed at the quality of care that they provided to us. It was by far, the best health care experience that either of us has ever received. Charli, Sarah, and Emily offer personalized and loving midwifery care that benefits your entire family beyond just pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. If you are thinking about midwifery care- schedule your consultation!!! You won’t regret it.

While there are countless things to praise about the care you receive with Hearth and Home, my favorite aspect was that their practice is rooted in informed consent. I never felt railroaded into making decisions that I wasn’t comfortable with or didn’t fully understand and they encouraged us to do our own research which is pretty much impossible to find in the traditional medical model of care. I felt so empowered and confident going into parenthood after working in collaboration with our midwives.

Also, I highly recommend that you check out their podcast: The Homebirth Midwife. Not only do they present a wealth of information that is vital to understand during your pregnancy, but you can also get an idea of how warm, funny, and knowledgeable these women are. Midwifery is truly their calling. If we are blessed with future kiddos, we will definitely be calling Hearth and Home! <3

- Alicia

Five stars doesn’t begin to cover how highly I recommend Hearth & Home.

Their calm, candid, compassionate approach meant that prenatal visits were highlights of my wife’s pregnancy - for both of us. I could gush about them for paragraphs more (don’t get me started on how empowering home birth can be for the non-birthing partner!!!), but I’ll spare you. Suffice it to say if we have another baby, Sarah, Charli, and Emily will be there.

- Tyler

If all healthcare utilized Hearth and Home Midwifery's model of care, the world would be a better place.

Sarah, Charli and Emily are true professionals in this field. They will provide you with a higher level of care you would receive in mainstream OB/GYN care. Each appointment is an hour long and extremely thorough. They think of every clinical detail and make sure you and baby are healthy without ever making the process feel cold or sterile. On the contrary, it's full of warmth and laughter with top-notch prenatal, birth and postpartum care. If you are a first-time pregnant person, looking to have an empowering and healing VBAC or anything in between, hire this incredible team!

- Che

It is hard to put into words the profound impact the midwives of Hearth and Home had on our journey to parenthood. I sought midwifery care after being dissatisfied with the rushed nature of traditional prenatal care, one phone call and I immediately knew this was the best decision for our family. The prenatal care was everything I hoped for and more: informative in a very calming environment with caring and respectful interaction. We felt so confident going into birth.

Our family is thriving and we could not recommend Hearth and Home more for your midwifery care. If we are blessed enough to continue to grow our family they will be our first call!

Thank you for all that you do and the incredible and thoughtful way you do it.

- Ally

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We make the process easy

Step 1

Schedule a consultation

Submit the form below. We’ll get back to you as quickly as possible to schedule an initial prenatal visit or a consultation together.

Step 2

Have a virtual meeting

We’ll discuss our process, answer any questions, and talk about next steps.

Step 3

Sign agreement & get started

We begin care as soon as you’re ready — which is typically early in pregnancy — and follow the same prenatal schedule as any maternity care provider.

Professional Portland Home Birth Specialists

Serving Portland, OR, and Vancouver, WA

Our Portland office is located at 4004 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR 97202. We also have a location in Hood River. Please contact us for additional information.

We’re so honored to be able to serve families in the greater Portland metro area. This includes local communities like:

  • Portland, OR
  • Hood River, OR
  • Vancouver, WA
  • Battle Ground, WA
  • Beaverton, OR
  • Camas, WA
  • Cascade Locks, OR
  • Clackamas, OR
  • Damascus, OR
  • Five Corners, WA
  • Gresham, OR
  • Happy Valley, OR
  • Hillsboro, OR
  • Lake Oswego, OR
  • Mill Plain, WA
  • Milwaukee, OR
  • Mosier, OR
  • Odell, OR
  • Oregon City, OR
  • Parkdale, OR
  • Salmon Creek, WA
  • Sandy, OR
  • Sherwood, OR
  • Sunnyside, OR
  • Tigard, OR
  • Troutdale, OR
  • Tualatin, OR
  • West Linn, OR
  • White Salmon, WA
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Give birth on your terms

As professional midwives, our job is to help you make decisions with all the information you need and stay by your side through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.

If you’re ready to take the next step, contact us today. We’re eager to start getting to know you and caring for you during pregnancy and childbirth.


Schedule a Consultation

 

FAQs

  • Yes, tons! We give you comprehensive details and data on all applicable services and procedures. You’re also encouraged to take our Online Childbirth Course. Additionally, we’re available to answer any specific questions that may pop up.

  • Home births have been done since the beginning of humanity. For most people, they’re perfectly safe.

    As a core part of our service, Hearth and Home conducts ongoing risk assessments to make sure you and your baby are good candidates for home birth before you go into labor.

    We offer attentive and thorough pre- and post-natal care for you and your baby, education and expectation setting, and professional childbirth assistance. If concerns about the safety of a home birth arise during the pregnancy, we work with you to appropriately adjust your birth plan.

  • Clients come to us — often for more than just one pregnancy — because they trust us and know we prioritize and are skilled in facilitating natural birth. We strike a balance between trusting birth and your body, and bringing the level of professionalism you want and deserve.

    We specialize in providing a full range of holistic, evidence-based, personalized midwifery services. Our focus is informed consent and informed choice, meaning each of our clients is ultimately in control of their own experience. All our midwives are licensed and have extensive training and experience in preganacy, birth, and postpartum care for mom and baby through six weeks postpartum. Plus, we’re on call 24-7 for those in our care with an urgent need.

    The level of safety and professionalism we bring is a major point of pride, but we’re also really proud of the deep and enduring personal connections we build with our clients. (Don’t worry — we have good boundaries!) Because we have high standards and only take a small number of clients each month, we know our clients well and are able to offer excellent care.

  • Your initial consultation — a 30-minute meeting during which you can ask questions and make sure we’re a good fit — is free. We charge a single, up-front, flat fee for our end-to-end midwifery services. Many times, insurance will reimburse some or all of the cost; we’ll review this option with you in your consultation.

    Hospitals tend to charge significantly more than we do, often for less personalized and holistic care. With us, you know what you’ll pay in advance and won’t have any new fees after that. You won’t get the shock of a post-care bill.

  • We don’t offer new client discounts. Our services are value-packed and fairly-priced for the level of care you’ll receive.