We are licensed to practice in Vermont and will travel to Massachusettes and Connecticut.
If you desire a homebirth in NY please call
and we can help make arrangements for you.
We are committed to providing you with compassionate and loving care through the Midwifery Model of Care.
Payments, Insurance & Fees
Times are Tough! We are very aware of the financial times that everyone is experiencing these days. We try very hard to accomodate every family. Please DO NOT hesitate to talk to us about your finances so we can work out a fee/plan that works for you.
PAYMENT OPTIONS
Care Credit~Credit Card~Payment Plans~Payment Deferal~Cash~Hardship Sliding Scale fee
~Lump sum or monthly payments by
check or cash
~Credit card payments are accepted through
PayPal & Square
~We can work with any payment plan that
suits your families needs.
INSURANCE
Many insurance companies will cover the services of a Licensed Midwife.
Clients are asked to pay up front and together with our Insurance Biller, we will assist you with filing a claim with your carrier.
In the case of Transport to the hospital insurance reimbursement may be limited due to services rendered by other providers. Most insurance companies will pay for your lab work and ultrasounds, along with other medical testing should it become neccesary.
Regardless of insurance payment, ulitimately
it is the clients responsibility to pay the birth fees that we agree upon, unless there is an unforseen financial hardship.
We work very hard to make sure money is
NOT the reason for you to decide you
can't have a homebirth.
We will discuss this in detail at our
free meet 'n' greet consultation.
We want all women to have a
homebirth that desire one!
FEES
Circle of Life Comprehensive Team Care for Homebirth $4,200
We choose our fee after months of consulting and comparing with midwives, doulas and clients in the area. We are offering full scope services, classes and groups. We truly are "one stop shopping" we offer everything a Family could need for the Childbearing Year. At Circle of Life we are a Team, we have a Team approach and our services cover many if not all of the needs of the homebirthing family.
You get:
-all the above stated services.
PLUS:
access to all of the wonderful women that work with Circle of Life 24/7 days a week. For example: if you are having 3am nursing issues, there will ALWAYS be someone to come help.
Midwifery and Homebirth are my heart song, I want to be able to offer it to every family that feels homebirth is right for them. Please realize that the fee you pay, whether it is the full fee or the best fee you can afford, it goes to helping me being able to continue to offer Midwifery Services to everyone. I trust that if a family truly can not afford my fee, they will talk with me and we will work out a financial plan that you CAN afford. I also trust that most people are good honest family oriented people that want to work with me and will do the right thing by me and my staff as well as for themselves.
Just to give you an insight as to where your payment goes:
my gas and maintenance on my car, my time, my fees for charting, buying and maintaining equipment, working on and maintaining the website you are reading this from, continuing education, paying my assistant(s), memberships and licensure that allows me to bring services to you, maintaining the office space that we use for all of Circle of Lifes offerings and of course to help feed my family- Cause lets face it we all need to eat :)
I also help out teen parents, donate to Native American Charities, ASPCA and work tirelessly to be fair honest and trustworthy!
We provide care for women who are having
low-risk, normal pregnancies.
We are able to care for women desiring
VBAC as well as waterbirth.
We provide midwifery care to women & babies during the Childbearing Cycle.
Circle of Life Professional Midwifery services include:
-Free consultation visit for new potential clients
-Hour-long comprehensive prenatal visits offered in our office or your home, every month to 28 weeks, then every two weeks to 36 weeks,
then every week until delivery
- 24/7 Availability to clients by phone or email for questions and concerns.
-Home labor & delivery with a caring and educated team led by a licensed midwife.
-Water birth & VBAC
-Birth Pool rental
-Continuous care and support by the midwife team in the immediate postpartum period
(2-4 hours after the birth)
-Breastfeeding support
-Regular postpartum visits for the mother and baby (including home visits on days 1, 3, 7 and 14, with a final office visit at six weeks after the birth, or as necessary according to your individual needs)
-Newborn Blood & Hearing Screening
-Birth Certificate & Social Security Card
You also recieve:
-Nutritional and fitness counseling
-Acces to our Extensive Lending Library
-Many Classes, Groups & Services for the Childbearing year and beyond
-Support from the whole Circle of Life Team day or night, we are there to call upon for any needs you or your baby may have.
Midwifery
Services
Safety of Home Births
Home Birth Statistics A new landmark study* shows that planned home births are safe. The largest study of home births attended by Certified Professional Midwives (CPM), as published in the British Medical Journal, has found that home birth is safe for low risk women and involves far fewer interventions than similar births in hospitals.
Safe & Healthy Outcomes
--Results are consistent with most studies of planned home births and low risk hospital births
--Zero maternal deaths
--Intrapartum and neonatal mortality:
2.0 per 1000 intended home births
(only 1.7 per 1000 intended home births when planned breech and twin births are excluded)
--Immediate neonatal concerns resulted in just 2.4% of newborns being placed in neonatal intensive care
--At six weeks well over 90% of mothers were still breastfeeding their babies
Much lower rates of interventions for
intended home births compared to
low risk hospital births:
Interventions Planned Home Birth Hospital Birth
Induction of labor (only with oxytocin or prostaglandins) 2.1%* 21.0%
Stimulation of labor (only with oxytocin)
2.7%* 18.9%
Electronic fetal monitoring 9.6% 84.3%
Episiotomy 2.1% 33.0%
Vacuum Extraction 0.6% 5.5%
Cesarean Section 3.7% 19.0%
* These numbers differ from the BMJ article where data for CPMs included forms of induction and stimulation onlyused by midwives and not comparable to hospital births.
Satisfied Mothers
Only 1.7% of mothers said they would choose a different type of caregiver for a future pregnancy.
Few Transfers to Hospital Care
--Only 12.1% transferred to hospital intrapartum or postpartum
--Five out of six transfers were before delivery,
most for failure to progress, pain relief or exhaustion
--Midwife considered transfer urgent in only 3.4% of intended home births
High Credibility
--Included all home births involving Certified Professional Midwives in the year 2000
--5,418 women in U.S. and Canada who intended to give birth at home as of the start of labor
--Prospective - every planned home birth was registered in the study prior to labor and delivery
* "Outcomes of Planned Home Births with Certified Professional Midwives: Large Prospective Study in North America." Kenneth C. Johnson and Betty-Anne Daviss. BMJ 2005;330:1416 (18 June). This article and related letters to the editor are available online, free, at http://www.bmj.com (Use the search feature and type Daviss for author to see this and other related articles).
