About the practice
Whether you are planning a family, are trying to conceive or are currently pregnant, Isabelle will help you create a conscious and healthy foundation of wisdom, wellness and trust for your upcoming birth. During the birth, she provides hands on support and encouragement and help you feel comfortable, empowered and safe..
My Mindful Birth is a small, independently owned, midwifery practice - this means that it’s easier for us to provide individualized care to our clients. Our role is to communicate evidence-based information, engage our clients in an exploration of their respective values, knowledge, and experience, and elicits a preference based on the results of that exploration. It is our philosophy that our clients always know they have options and that the power is always theirs.
Our midwife received a formal education, she is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) and Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM), licensed in the State of Illinois with Full Practice Authority (FPA). This means that she is a nurse, a midwife, and can legally practice midwifery in Illinois. Because she has been practicing for many years, she can practice independently to the full extend of her scope of practice. She can order lab tests and ultrasounds, prescribe medications and treatments and has a relationship with many physicians including OB/GYNs, Maternal Fetal Medicine, primary care physicians, pediatricians and other providers. She can also bill insurances for services rendered.
Our midwife is a solo practitioner, you get to meet with her at every appointment. You get to know her and she gets to know you and know exactly what you desire your birth experience to be like.
Longer appointments - to ensure that you stay healthy, that your needs are met, and all your questions answered.
Attendance at birth - our midwife and birth assistant are ready to come to your house when you need them to come. Both are there to make sure that all your needs are met. The only time you would have someone whom you have never met would be if there was another mom in active labor at the same time than you, which is a very rare event. In such case, we have another home birth midwife attend your birth.
.Whether you are planning a family, are trying to conceive or are currently pregnant, Isabelle will help you create a conscious and healthy foundation of wisdom, wellness and trust for your upcoming birth. During the birth, she provides hands on support and encouragement and help you feel comfortable, empowered and safe..
Hands off/hands on - our midwife has years of experience as a L&D nurse and as a hospital-based midwife. Yet, she truly believes in the undisturbed birth. She is less likely to use interventions unless these are medically necessary and she.is more likely to provide hands-on labor support..
Our midwife has an extended knowledge of alternative and complementary remedies. But when these are not providing the expected results, she can prescribe pharmaceutical treatment.