Maitri Midwifery
Evanston, IL 60202
Accepts Medicaid : No
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Outcomes:
- Number of VBAC deliveries per year -
- Epidural Rate - 1
- Overall Induction Rate - 1
- Early Elective Deliveries - 0
- Episiotomy Rate - 0
Epidural and overall induction rates are <1%.
Epidurals are not offered in the home: rate reflects women who transferred to the hospital in labor and had an epidural there.
Compassionate Holistic Homebirth Midwifery Care and Birth Service
Specializing in pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum care.
- Pre-conception
- Placenta Encapsulation
- Waterbirth
- Childbirth Education
- Doula Services
- Water Birth Tub Rental
At Maitri Midwifery, our mission is to provide care to women and families who desire birth services in Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois. Care with a professional midwife is based on the fact that pregnancy and childbirth are a normal life process.
What to Expect with Matri Midwifery
Maitri Midwives enter the home of a laboring woman with loving, peaceful energy and a reverence for her birth experience. We accompany her in labor to help develop a safe and satisfying birth experience. We believe that birth is an empowering, profound, marvelous, sacred, life-changing experience. We watch, we listen, we assess the well-being of mother and baby, and we offer our support through words and touch. We are patient, knowing that women’s bodies open in the fullness of time, not according to a graph or specific timeline. We have many ideas for comfort measures, pain coping techniques and position changes, but for every woman our support is individualized, responding to her unique needs, desires and experiences. We have spent long hours through the night massaging a woman to help her soften and open, and have sat quietly outside the room when a woman has desired to labor in solitude. We provide reassurance when all is well, share information we gather from listening to fetal heart tones, and are comfortable using our advanced midwifery skills when they are needed. We offer a complete understanding of the birth process but more importantly we offer sensitivity, stamina, patience and reverence to your birth process. We provide information to enable families to make informed choices.
Recommendations
During your care, most of your appointments will take place in the office. All of your labs can be drawn at your appointment, when necessary. You will have one prenatal home visit toward the end of your pregnancy to ensure that we know how to find your home, and are able to see the birthing environment. You also have a home visit in the first few days after your birth to check the well-being of mom and baby.
In addition we provide great referrals for chiropractic care, massage, pelvic floor rehab, birth photography and more.
Our Midwives
Barbara Belcore-Walkden, CD, CPM, LM — Head of Midwifery
Barbara is a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) and is a licensed midwife in the state of Wisconsin. She has been attending births professionally since 2006. Her related education includes professional doula training (ALACE & Midwest Maternal Child Institute) and a MEAC (Midwifery Education Accreditation Council) accredited degree from the National College of Midwifery.
Barbara’s philosophy rests on her belief that childbirth is a natural process. She has a desire to build a community of strong, healthy families one birth at a time. She is committed to listening, encouraging, educating, and respecting each growing family as she builds relationships with them.
Barb has attended births in diverse settings including hospital, birth center, and at home. Her midwifery care has been shaped and influenced by exposure to a variety of different disciplines; learning from certified professional midwives, traditional midwives, nurse midwives, family practice doctors, pediatricians, obstetricians, naturopaths, chiropractors, acupuncturists, massage therapists, herbalists and others. She has lived in Illinois since 2000 and has enjoyed serving women and families in childbirth since 2010. She has two children of her own, the youngest born at home with midwives. The majority of births she has attended have been out-of-hospital.
Julie Banas, CD, CPM — Midwife
Julie is a certified doula, birth assistant, and certified professional midwife. Julie has attended births at home, in a hospital, and birth centers all across the U.S. She has been attending births since 2009 with the majority of them out of hospital.
Julie graduated from the University of Alaska and received her Bachelors in Business Management. She has taught various courses teaching birth workers essential birth and business skills.
She has five children of her own, pregnant with her 6th, and has birth experiences in a hospital, birth center, and homebirth.
8 – Hours Private In-Person or Virtual Class
Our comprehensive childbirth education class is geared toward homebirth parents. We can customize the class based on your individuals needs and interests.
The following topics are covered
- The pregnant body
- Physiology of labor and birth
- Common discomforts of pregnancy
- Preparing for homebirth
- Informed consent
- Comfort techniques for labor
- Breastfeeding
- Postpartum care
- Newborn care
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