Services
Please contact Melissa (901) 786-3334 or Martina (901) 275-2907 for more information regarding our services, fees, and insurance policies.
The midwives at Full Circle Midwifery are primary care providers for healthy pregnant women who choose to birth in their own home settings. In the absence of health issues, clients need only visit a medical doctor one time to establish a collaborative care plan. Full Circle Midwifery provides comprehensive prenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care.
Prenatal Care
- discuss matters of importance, concern, or interest to you
- record your family and medical history
- evaluate nutritional needs and discuss any needed dietary changes
- perform physical assessments
- monitor healthy weight increases
- assess blood pressure
- perform dip-stick urinalysis
- assess fetal growth and activity
- determine fetal positioning by palpation
- listen to fetal heart tones
- perform laboratory blood tests
Prenatal visits occur once each month up to 28 weeks, every 2 weeks until 36 weeks, and weekly until delivery.
Intrapartum Care
- offer labor guidance and comfort techniques
- monitor baby's well being with intermittent fetal heart tone readings
- monitor mother's well being with frequent vitals
- assess the progress of labor (vaginal exams are used only when necessary)
- "catch" the baby and/or assist mother or partner to "catch" the baby
- chart the progress of labor and birth (copies may be made available for record)
Postnatal Care
- monitor mother and baby during immediate postpartum period
- perfom comprehensive newborn exam and screening
- administer vitamin K and antibiotic eye ointment if desired by parents
- assist with breastfeeding
- clean birth linens and prepare postpartum bed
- provide a 24 hour in-home assessment of mother and baby (more if needed)
- instruct partner on the monitoring of vitals for mother and baby
- perform metabolic newborn screening test (heel stick)
- provide a 2 week, 4 week, and 6 week postpartum office visit
- file birth certificate