At our office, which is currently in my home, you will
find 1 experienced midwife with Eden Song Maternity, Inc., various
apprentices who are obtaining their clinical experience from the
midwives with Eden Song, who also teach childbirth education classes.
Occasionally, we also educate nursing students sent to us from
University of Texas in Arlington, and midwifery students from the
Association of Texas Midwives and other training organizations.
The
staff of Eden Song Maternity, Inc. (ESMI) are available to you by cell
phone, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You should be able to contact us
at any time. For your birth, our goal is for us to be available to you
during the 3 week period prior to your estimated due date until after
your baby’s birth. If Bonnie has a vacation booked, you will be
informed prior to those dates, and backup arranged.
Sometimes
Bonnie attends meetings, study days, conferences and seminars. These
are necessary to maintain current legal status and to be up to date with
the latest research in order to provide you with the best possible
care. Timing of these is mostly out of our control and attendance often
obligatory. Most of these are local. If you are in labor at the time
of these events, Bonnie will remain with you and a senior apprentice or
another contract midwife will be called in. We will do our best to
ensure that you are never without a backup midwife.
We will do
our utmost to provide you with our very best personalized care.
However, you must remember that this is a partnership. We can help you
to achieve the pregnancy and birth experience you wish for, but only
with your cooperation. You have taken the responsibility upon yourself
to leave the “conventional American Dr./ hospital birth” for what you
feel is the better care of a midwifery led care. That responsibility
continues throughout your pregnancy to keep yourself in the best
possible health. If at any time we feel that you are jeopardizing
yourself or your baby against our advice, we may find it necessary to
terminate our partnership with you and refund to you any payments owing.
ESMI
offers routine prenatal and intrapartum (birth) care, out of hospital
birth preparation counseling, post partum care, appropriate referrals to
other health care providers when indicated and support and guidance for
the best birth experience possible. We are deeply committed to
providing our best care and being available to the families of our
clients.
Home and birth center birth is a viable alternative to
hospital birth for those parents desiring to share fully the
responsibility and joy of their birth experience with the birth
attendant of their choice. This aspect of your care will be discussed
more fully during your initial and subsequent visits to the Eden Song
Maternity, Inc. office.
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