Midwifery Care Services
Safe and Personalized Reproductive Health, Prenatal, HomeBirth, and Postpartum Care
Full Midwifery Care & Home Birth​
Serving Inland Mendocino and Sonoma Counties
As a Licensed Midwife (LM) in California, I am a primary care provider for low-risk pregnancy, home birth and postpartum care, including well-baby care for the first 6 weeks of life. Midwives offer a model of care that is uniquely different in its approach to pregnancy and birth than the current practices and approaches in obstetrics. Midwives specialize in healthy, physiologic birth, and we attend to birth givers in this incredible, yet everyday cycle-of-life event. Birth is life, life is birth. We work with clients for optimal health in pregnancy and beyond.
Midwives are able to recognize when conditions veer away from what is considered "low-risk" or healthy pregnancy, and we work with clients to bring back balance. We identify when a consultation with, or referral to an OB, or other health care providers may be indicated.
Full Midwifery Care includes the following:​
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Prenatal Care - Visits once a month until 28 weeks, every 2 weeks until 36 weeks, once a week until 40 weeks, and twice a week until 42 weeks
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Trauma Informed & Embodied Consent woven into your care
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Nutritional counseling throughout
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Blood Draws and General Labwork
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Genetic Screening
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Appropriate pregnant person & fetal assessments
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Emotional and spiritual preparation for birth, new parent transformation, including various bodywork techniques
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Homebirth, with waterbirth option
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Midwife & Assist on-call for the birth 24/7 from 37-42 weeks, to be present at the birth & immediate postpartum
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Postpartum Care & Lactation Support - Postpartum Visits on day 1 & 3, weeks 1, 2, 4 and 6, and phone support
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Well-Baby Care for first 6 weeks of Life
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Skilled Emergency Care when indicated
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Consultations & Referrals to other care providers when indicated
Prenatal & Postpartum Care Only
Maybe Homebirth is not for you?! And you can still have a midwife with Monitrice services!
Choice of care providers and place of birth, be it home, or hospital is so important. For some people the place they prefer to give birth is in the hospital, and they may choose midwifery care for their prenatal and postpartum care. You can have it how you want it. Licensed Midwives offer personalized and attentive care that has been shown to improve outcomes for those who then choose to birth in the hospital. I offer services for prenatal care only, or prenatal and postpartum care only, as your primary care provider until 37 weeks, or concurrently with your OB until 6 weeks postpartum. I will help you to connect with a doula for your hospital birth.
I also offer individual prenatal visits for pregnant people who may be in-between providers, traveling folks, and for those who may want to experience midwifery care firsthand.
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Well-Person Reproductive Care
Reproductive Health Care Services:
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Pelvic/Gynecologic Care
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Trauma Informed Care & Embodied Consent
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TQGNB Appropriate Care
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PAP Smears
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Breast/Chest Exam & Self-Exam Instruction
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STI Testing
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Herbal & Nutritional Counseling
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Fertility & Family Planning
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Blood draws & Lab Work Interpretation
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Bajos Pelvic Region Steaming
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Abdominal Massage
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Licensed midwives offer reproductive health care for folks in their reproductive years. I offer all of the services listed below. I may provide these services as part of your prenatal care, before, in-between pregnancies, as part of your postpartum care, or even if you're not planning to ever get pregnant. So many of us have had unpleasant or even traumatizing experiences receiving gynecological care. I am dedicated to providing a positive experience that is client centered and client led. I am learning more and more about how to offer trauma informed care and embodied consent. I move through exams at your pace, touch is only with your informed consent. Exams can stop at any point you say, or otherwise indicated through your body language. I will mirror the language you use for your body parts. And work to make the experience as comfortable as possible, and affirming to your being.
Womb Wellness Circles
Open to Femme & TQGNB Folx
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By appointment on Wednesday evenings from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
@Peoples Midwifery 205 W. Clay Street, Downtown Ukiah
In-Person Group Wellness Sessions May Include:​
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Abdominal Massage
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Steaming Bajos (vaginal/peri)
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Herbal/Castor Oil Packs
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Belly Binding with herbs
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Practice abdominal massage for self & other
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Using Herbal Remedies
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In Between Monthly Online/Phone Group Check-ins
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Resources for Womb Wellness & when indicated, referrals
Individualized Care Available:
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One-to-one sessions in person or on the phone
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Individualized sessions may include, (your choice, your time):
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Any womb wellness practice listed above
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Pap & STI screening (lab fees not included)
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Breast/Chest Exam & Self Exam Instruction
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Cycle Charting & Evaluation for fertility and balancing (if you are charting)
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Individualized Nutritional & Lifestyle Counseling
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Herbal Remedies
Optional Add-Ons (lab fees not included)
For Symptoms of Imbalance or Menstrual Irregularities
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DUTCH Hormone Testing & Analysis
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Pelvic Ultrasound for menstrual irregularities (fibroids/cysts)
Queer, Gender Expansive, and Trans Conception and Reproductive Care
I am committed to providing gender affirming care to all individuals and families that seek my services. I have worked to build my practice to be a safer space, acknowledging and honoring gender identities, gender expressions, sexualities, and the various intersections that make us unique. I am committed to continue learning. I understand that all too often our differences in society present us with unnecessary obstacles and challenges. Everyone should be able to receive affirming care in their communities, to experience gender affirming language, to have their body referred to in ways that are congruent to them, to receive informed choice for every touch and procedure, to be welcomed and celebrated, and to be respected.
I am new to offering the services of intracervical and intrauterine insemination (IUI). I can perform this fairly simple, yet private and personal precedure in office, or in the comfort of your own home.
Lactation Support
Lactation support is provided to all clients in my care. The Golden-Hour right after birth is about bonding, and beginning to nourish your baby. Your baby comes ready to feed, and has reflexes and instincts to guide them. And when you or baby need extra support, my midwifery partner and I will help your baby get a good latch, help you with positions and holding baby, learn the cues your baby gives, and more.
In addition to being a midwife and having hundreds of hours of assisting folks in getting off to a great start breast feeding /chest feeding their babies, I'm also a lactation specialist, trained through UC San Diego for addressing some of the challenges that might arise. I am also happy to point to resources, and make referrals to an IBCLC, and/or Trans lactation support person for extra help for things like inducing lactation for trans women & femmes, or other issues that may require their expertise. We want your success in lactation and feeding your baby!
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Reclaiming Traditional Mexican Birthing & Postpartum Practices
Home birth and midwifery care skipped only one generation in my family since the beginning of time. My parents, and their parents, and their parents' parents were all born at home with midwives. Here in the US my siblings and I were born in the hospital. I gave birth to my babies at home. Because of the simultaneous assimilation to U.S. culture, and resistance to oppresive forces for survival, many birthing traditions were lost. It has been a labor of love to reclaim practices lost, reconnect to cultural traditions, and to be able to offer traditional Mexican practices in my midwifery care. First, becoming a mother, and then a Midwife, it has been a process of stepping into my role, embodied and grounded, and in deeper service to birth givers and new life. I weave this knowledge and wisdom into my midwifery practice. Reclaiming lineage, I acknowledge and honor my ancestral roots, my family, the People, and the future generations being birthed.
I offer a variety of Mexican rooted practices, including: Rebozo for pregnancy, labor & postpartum; Postpartum Belly Binding; Abdominal Massage; Postpartum Sealing Ceremonies; Bajos Steaming & Baños; Foods and Herbs for pregnancy and postpartum, and I'm always learning more. I speak, read, and write Spanish fairly well, this too has been a love-labor of reclamation.
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The symbol representing my midwifery practice is a drawing I did to honor the the Mexica people and culture. In the center is new life. The Concha is a sacred symbol of life, of our origins of water, of earth and sea, wind and sky. It's a symbol of fertility, and a symbol of the holder of life, the uterus. It is a symbol of regeneration, of birth, and the cycle of life, and the spiral journey. Encircling this concha are the phases of the moon, and the rays of the sun pointing outward. These rays are the Mexica symbols of the cardinal directions, of fire, water, air and earth, also representing the seasons, stages of life, and aspects of being human: spiritual, emotional, mental, an physical. These symbols are reminders to me that pregnancy and birth is a transformational journey, a ceremony rooted in community, culture, and a great spiral unfolding.
