B A Y
M I D W I V E S
REDEFINING HEALTHCARE
Currently accepting new clients at any stage of pregnancy who would like in-home and virtual prenatal and postpartum visits or home birth in the midst of the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Care that Empowers
At Bay Midwives, we strive to offer high-quality, personalized, and compassionate care and home birth services that help you feel confident, knowledgeable, and empowered so that you may take charge of your pregnancy and birthing experience. We want to help bring the joy back into this amazing life event while reinforcing the visceral and transformative nature of pregnancy, birth, and parenthood. We believe in a holistic approach, and our aim is to support normalcy rather than manage it.
Ensuring Equity
We believe in providing high quality, evidence-based care to every person, regardless of skin color, sex, gender, size, sexual orientation, gender-identification, financial means, political or religious belief, etc., and believe you deserve to be cared for respectfully and competently. We believe that shared decision-making is the cornerstone of midwifery care. We believe in dismantling the health inequities that exist for African American, Hispanic, Native American, and LGBTQ+ families by examining our own biases, continuously learning cultural humility, and striving to provide culturally sensitive and trauma-informed care.
Who We Are
Midwives are the traditional care providers for pregnant people and infants. We are trained professionals with expertise and skills in supporting pregnant people in maintaining healthy pregnancies and having optimal births and recoveries in the postpartum.
Midwives provide families with care that is individualized and uniquely suited to their physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and cultural needs. We are the facilitators of natural and physiologic processes! Countries that utilize midwifery care and home birth have some of the best maternal and infant outcomes! Community-based midwifery care and home birth is considered safe for healthy, low-risk individuals.
Our role as your provider is to:
- Work with you and your family to promote a healthy pregnancy
- Provide education to help families make informed decisions about their own care
- Carefully monitor the progress of the pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum periods
- Recommend appropriate management if complications arise
- Collaborate with other healthcare professionals when necessary
- Provide evidence-based care and work with families to make evidence-based decisions
The Benefits
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- Hour long, client-centered appointments
- Personalized, compassionate, and intuitive care
- Laboratory testing
- Promote and facilitate physiologic birth
- Minimal and appropriate use of interventions based on available evidence and mutual consent
- Shared decision making
- Labor, birth, and immediate postpartum care in the comfort of your home
- Water birth encouraged
- Decreased rates of epidural use, episiotomies, and cesarean birth
- Delayed cord-clamping
- Immediate skin-to-skin with newborn
- Postpartum home visit at 24-48 hours
- Continued breast/chestfeeding support
- Higher rates of reported positive birth experiences
- 24 hour availability and on-call birth services from 37-42 weeks
- Referrals available for ultrasounds, doulas, childbirth educators, placenta encapsulation, maternal-fetal medicine, etc.
- Collaborative care with other healthcare providers
Charlee was so compassionate, qualified, and personable that even after 36 hours of labor and 3 hours of pushing I honestly cannot wait to be pregnant again and do it all over. Not many people on earth can make you EXCITED to give birth-if you’re on the fence, please make that leap with Charlee; you won’t regret it.
- A. G.
Insurance & Billing
Our services are covered by most insurance companies. Your PPO Verification of Benefits can be performed below for a $25 fee.
Photography Services
Interested in a family, maternity, or lifestyle newborn photography session? Choose this as an add-on service or reach out to Charlee via her website below to inquire!
Our Partners & Affiliates
Serving primarily Contra Costa County including Alamo, Antioch, Bay Point, Bethel Island, Brentwood, Byron, Clayton, Concord, Danville, Discovery Bay, Lafayette, Livermore, Martinez, Moraga, Oakley, Orinda, Orwood, Pacheco, Pittsburg, Pleasant Hill, Pleasanton, San Ramon, Walnut Creek, and more.