Welcome to Gentle Beginnings Midwifery. I am a Certified Professional Midwife, Rn. I offer home birth, water birth, and in home prenatal and postpartum care. I serve the following areas:
- Southeast Kansas, including:
- Baxter Springs, KS
- Chetopa, KS
- Fort Scott, KS
- Pittsburg, KS
- Columbus, KS
- surrounding areas
- Southwest Missouri, including:
- Joplin, MO
- Carthage, MO
- Webb City, MO
- Oronogo, MO
- Neosho, MO
- Lamar, MO
- Springfield, MO
- Mt. Vernon, MO
- Republic, MO
- surrounding areas
- Northeast Oklahoma, including:
- Miami, OK
- surrounding areas
As a home birth oriented midwife, I support a mother’s personal choices. I offer guidance and help with a perspective of twenty-seven years of experience in home birth. I prefer the setting of your home for prenatal care, delivery and postpartum care. I encourage family participation and fathers to coach and catch when able. Water birth is an option many families choose.
I believe that every family has the right to and responsibility for choosing the type of care and the setting for their pregnancy and birth. I support birth that builds and strengthens family relationships. I encourage prenatal care and nutrition that grows healthy mothers and babies and leads to optimal birth outcomes.
My services include:
- free consultations
- prenatal care – home visits every 3 weeks (I travel to see you)
- delivery – in your home
- postpartum care – a minimum of 3 home visits after the baby is born
- well baby and mother consultation for up to six months or more if needed
- file birth certificate information with the state
- newborn screening and/or referral
Fees are based on a sliding scale that considers your income as well as the distance I travel to visit you. Payment plans are worked out on an individual basis.
Judith Schmidt CPM,Rn (417-483-8762)