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Midwives model of care™

The Midwives Model of Care™ is a fundamentally different approach to pregnancy and childbirth than contemporary obstetrics. Midwifery care is uniquely nurturing, hands-on care before, during, and after birth. Midwives are health care professionals specializing in pregnancy and childbirth who develop a trusting relationship with their clients, which results in confident, supported labor and birth. While there are different types of midwives practicing in various settings, all midwives are trained to provide comprehensive prenatal care and education, guide labor and birth, address complications, and care for newborns. The Midwives Model of Care™ is based on the fact that pregnancy and birth are normal life events. The Midwives Model of Care includes:

  • monitoring the physical, psychological and social well-being of the mother throughout the childbearing cycle
  • providing the mother with individualized education, counseling, and prenatal care, continuous hands-on assistance during labor and delivery, and postpartum support
  • minimizing technological interventions and
  • identifying and referring women who require obstetrical attention.

The application of this model has been proven to reduce to incidence of birth injury, trauma, and cesarean section. 

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Across our planet, eighty percent of people alive today have been born with midwives. In many of the industrialized countries of the world, midwives attend approximately 70% of all births. The countries with the lowest mortality and morbidity rates for mothers and infants are those in which midwifery is a valued and integral pillar of the maternity care system. The midwifery model is a low-tech, high-caring model that produces excellent outcomes not only for low risk women, but for vulnerable and at-risk women as well.

Prenatals. Labor&birth. Postpartum.

Providing tailored, compassionate, supportive home birth midwifery care for healthy families and babies and warmly welcomes LGBTQIA+ families.  Support all kinds of births: VBAC ,twins, carefully consider breech, people of all ages from teens into their 40s.  Late-in-care families are also accepted.  Clients have access to traditional medicines and nutritional counseling, as well as "routine"labs, ultrasounds, and emergency medications in pregnancy, birth and postpartum.  
Jenn is on-call for you 24/7,  all prenatal care, labor/birth, and 6 - 8 weeks postpartum. You are invited to a consultation or an interview! Email your questions or give a call. jenndhead (at) gmail.com • 541-282-3114

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Who is she?

Jenn is a licensed midwife in Oregon and California. Shehas assisted families and caught healthy, beautiful babies on three continents and five countries.  She has worked for 20 years as a birth worker and enjoys reaching out around the world, when she is not nestled as a midwife in the Northern California and Southern Oregon midwifery community.  She embraces the journey of the childbearing year, from pregnancy through birth and breastfeeding as a normal, natural process.  See more about who  Jenn is in the link below.

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