Home birth can be an amazing and freeing experience for both first and subsequent births. Home birth parents report feeling more relaxed, feeling in control and safe. Expecting parent's that desire this experience, AMC's experienced birth team will come directly to your home for your special delivery.
AMC's priority is to follow your desired birth plan. In translation, you may choose to labor in the setting of your choice with support from your birth team with minimal interruptions and/or interventions.
What to expect when you go into labor:
AMC's priority is to follow your desired birth plan. In translation, you may choose to labor in the setting of your choice with support from your birth team with minimal interruptions and/or interventions.
What to expect when you go into labor:
- Your midwife and an assistant will come to your home and assess your progress. If you are in active labor, your birth team will be called to your home to prepare for your birth.
- Suggestions for comfort measures (as needed)
- Encouraged family involvement and support
- Privacy
- Intermittent assessment of maternal and fetal well being
- Intermittent fetal monitoring
- Examination and repair of the perineum (if indicated) for lacerations
- Encouraged immediate skin to skin contact
- Delayed cord clamping
- Assessment, management, and/or treatment of maternal hemorrhage
- Complete comprehensive newborn exam
- Newborn vitamin-K injection (if desired)
- Newborn eye ointment (if desired)
- Clean up is done by the birth team (including laundry and removal of trash)
- Birth team remains on site until BOTH mother and baby are stable.
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