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Rosanna
Davis, LM, CPM
2225 Grant Road Suite 1
Los Altos, CA 94024
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 VILLAGE
PRENATAL CARE
A Service
of California Midwifery Service and Rosanna Davis LM, CPM
“A fun
and empowering way to get prenatal care”
Village
Prenatal Care offers support, a place for women to air concerns
about their pregnancies, and an opportunity for women to be active
in their own care. The over-all intention is to help women/couples
feel a greater sense of empowerment, confidence in themselves and in
their ability to care for themselves, their new baby and their
family.
Every session
includes:
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A “Baby and Mom Check”: Blood pressure, weight, listening to baby’s heart rate,
midwife checking for baby’s position and measuring mom’s belly
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Pain coping practice
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Time to socialize with
the group
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Snacks
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Discussion about
pregnancy with other women/couples
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Facilitated activities
related to preparing for labor/birth and parenting
Group sessions are every three weeks throughout your pregnancy.
These sessions start and end on time. The calendar will help you
keep track of each group session. Since you know well ahead of time
when your group will meet you will be able to plan your work/school
schedule and child care needs around these times. The group
sessions provide your prenatal care and will be billed in the usual
way that we would bill for your prenatal care. Childbirth education
is included within the sessions. If you have a problem between the
group sessions you may call for an appointment.
As
your due date approaches you will schedule additional private
session with your midwife so that you will be receiving prenatal
care and assessment more frequently and as needed. These individual
appointments (including your 36 week home visit) will be scheduled
during the week on Mondays (or Thursdays or Fridays if you are not
available on Mondays).
Village Prenatal Care is modeled after CenteringPregnancy
and Birthing From Within childbirth preparation.
Rosanna and Stephanie, your group facilitators, are both experienced
and certified Birthing From Within mentors. Rosanna will be
providing the prenatal and assessment care.
Why groups?
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Sometimes women are
each other’s best teachers.
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Sometimes questions
get forgotten during one-on-one care and there is missed
opportunity.
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Sometimes in a group
someone else asks a question you’ve forgot or didn’t think of,
creating opportunity for exploration and discussion
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Women do well in
groups where there is shared experience, friendship and
continuity of relationship.
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The notion that women
can learn from each other is powerful.
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It can be very
reassuring that other women are experiencing same things.
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Parenting issues get
discussed beyond what takes place in usual prenatal care.
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Common discomforts are
normalized and sometimes new ways to alleviate them are
discovered from other women.
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