Planning a home birth? I can offer you a full and comprehensive home Birth package that includes antenatal care and education, birth at home and provide care and support for you and your baby postnatally for up to 4 weeks. With over 7 years of experience with home births you are in safe and caring hands with me. Continuity of care and carer is proven to support positive outcomes for mums and babies and that's what I can offer you if you book care with me. If for whatever reason you end up birthing in hospital, I can be there with you as your advocate and support.
The home birth package includes all routine antenatal bloods with an extra full blood count at 34 weeks to check your iron levels, NIPT test, fetal RHD screen and glucose tolerance (if needed), early pregnancy scan, anomaly scan at around 20 weeks and one scan later in pregnancy at a time of your choice. If growth scans are clinically indicated these will also be included
I will be on call for you from 37 weeks, ready for when your body and baby decide it is time. Use of a birthing pool and tens machine for labour, correspondence with your local NHS trust if needed, routine checks for baby, such as the newborn infant physical examination (NIPE) and the day 5 newborn blood spot test (NBBS).