Independent Midwife & Health Visitor
Pgdip (Health Visiting), BSc(Hons) Midwifery, RM, RN
Care Packages
Essex Independent Midwives
The fee for my professional services reflects the professional care you receive. Flexible payment options are available on request.
My care packages are as follows. (click on the headings below for further details)
Standalone Consultation or Education Session
Antenatal Individualised Workshops
Midwifery Postnatal Care Package
This includes:
Consultation : Informal discussion to discuss your specific needs and aspirations.
Booking appointment : This will take about 1-2 hours and is our chance to compile a full medical and obstetric history as well as forming a plan of care and information sharing.
All antenatal visits are unhurried, in your own home lasting 1-2 hours.
4 individualised antenatal workshops on issues including labour.
Weekly reflexology treatments from 37 weeks of pregnancy.
Midwifery telephone support 24/7.
On call from 37 weeks for the birth.
Birth support at home or as an advocate in hospital.
Postnatal care for up to 4 weeks tailored to your needs.
It Excludes:
Investigations like blood tests, ultra sound scans, and consultations with a private Obstetrician or stay in a private maternity hospital. If you are eligible for NHS care your GP can arrange scans and blood tests for you. Or you can opt to have these performed at a private fetal medicine centre or a private laboratory. I will happily arrange this for you.
Pool hire charges. I can give you details of pool hire companies if you wish to use water in labour as a form of pain relief or indeed to birth your baby.
I will visit you at your convenience, for a minimum of two visits prior to your labour and birth,
to discuss your birth plans, specific requirements and your feelings around how you wish to birth your baby.
I will be on call for you from the 37th week of pregnancy until labour begins. I will visit with you at home
and when ready I will accompany you into your chosen hospital.
Within the hospital setting your care will be undertaken by the hospital midwives. I will remain with you throughout
as your advocate. My role will include supporting yourself and your birth partner, giving you evidenced based
information together with my midwifery clinical experience to enable you to informed choices.
Immediately following the birth in hospital I will be able to help you breast
feed your baby if desired. This care package then completes.
If you wish further postnatal visits to support with breastfeeding or any other
issues these can be arranged for an additional fee per visit or as a set fee for
a set number of visits as desired.
Standalone Consultation or Education Session
I am happy to provide a consultation service for women who wish to discuss their individual situation and options for care with an independent professional or within the NHS.
Antenatal Individualised Workshops
In your own home with yourself and birth partner.
Home birth/Hospital birth/Water birth preparation [2 hours] to discuss all issues around birth and immediate aftercare of your baby.
Management of pain in labour [1 hour]. Natural methods of pain management including use of hypnobirthing, massage, aromatherapy will be discussed. Medical management of pain will also be explored.
Breastfeeding [2 hours]: discuss in detail and discover about breastfeeding prior to the arrival of your baby
Baby and parent interaction and bonding [2 hours] discusses issues around how baby interacts and responds to you and how you can support and manage baby in early weeks with his/her development physically and mentally. Included in this session is information on what to expect in the early weeks and how your world is likely to change once your little one arrives. This session always promotes discussion and is so interesting to increase your understanding of the world of a small baby
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Midwifery Postnatal Care Package
This package is ideal to give you the extra support you may want following the birth of your baby. Support with parent baby interaction, managing baby and life in early weeks of life and support with your feeding choice. This can be arranged on a flexible, individual basis approximately up to 10 visits in your own home, lasting one to two hours.
As an experienced Health Visitor I offer an ongoing service for parents and children to ensure that your baby and/or pre-schooler
can make the best start in life and that you as a parent feel your questions are answered.
I offer the expert advice and support you desire from a health visitor and more.
Being a parent is the most rewarding of human experiences, but stresses and problems can also arise,
for example in balancing parenting and a career, in meeting the needs of the rest of the family or in sustaining a healthy lifestyle.
I know that doing the best for your baby means also doing the best for you.
A care package can include:
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a neonatal visit from 14 days after the birth. Included in this will be discussion on baby parent interaction and supportive
and management methods to support yourself and baby in early life.
an infant check, advice and support visit and maternal/parent assessment at around 6-8 weeks,
comprising a holistic assessment of physical and psychological wellbeing
a nutritional visit at around 4-6 months (depending on parent wishes with regard to weaning).
Breast feeding is the recommended feeding method for first six months of life and breast feeding support is provided
at any time as and if desired
a developmental assessment at 8 and at 12 months, including discussion of MMR