Most prenatal and postpartum care (including labwork) is provided in the comfort of home (an office, or park) convenient for *members within a 45 min radius (all others may come to me for visits, depending on location and timing).

Functional, herbal, spirit-mind-body approach to perinatal wellness with guidance and support on health, fetal positioning, physiologic conception, pregnancy and labor progression, breastfeeding, postpartum healing, and functional labwork.

All prenatal *members receive access to my personal resource lending library and the Esali Birth online birth class community, including birth prep for unassisted Free Birth and emergency birth.

Family-Centered Home Birth

Danielle Bergum provides Midwifery Care with a holistic focus and offers families in the Mid-Ohio Valley and surrounding regions with the opportunity to be cared for with a wisdom-sharing approach. Creating a space for attentive and individualized care through the childbearing years encourages you to birth in a way that feels instinctive and desirable to you, and you are mentored to be a leader for the midwifery care and support you need.  A logical posture to care puts the mother at the center of personal awareness and responsibility and encourages the family to support her Spirit-led, self-wisdom through this journey.

Guardian of Generations

With the heart of a non-medical traditional midwife, and the experience of a modern functional midwife, Danielle Bergum offers an intentional approach to care that can help guide you to create a space where unnecessary interventions are avoided and this transformative life event is held sacred. Through mind-body-environment support and a birth-can-be-simple approach, a goal of life-long balance for multiple generations is pursued. You can receive counseling for overall functional wellness, nutrition, maternal-fetal alignment, movement, and therapies to support spontaneous, physiologic fertility and birth in the comfort of your own home. You are given tools and techniques to guide your care, can discover how your body communicates wellness and imbalance, and be supported in the variations of the childbearing years. Casual prenatal care seeks to create a trusting relationship that helps you to enjoy our presence in your space, enhancing the psychophysiologic transformation of birth. A hope is that you utilize this traditional wisdom preventatively so that you avoid medical care for birth. Learn more on the Meet Danielle page.

water birth photo by Ashly Collins Photography

Autonomy

The sovereignty of the Heavenly Father, and autonomous individual decisions, are at the core of belief as a birth guardian. Danielle enjoys caring for families that seek to take responsibility for their wellness by giving-birth-back-to-women through education and support of informed decisions and psychophysiology. Mothers that understand what physiology feels and looks like in prenatal care better understand when a medical approach may be beneficial. A mother and her birth team should take complete liberty over their care and lead to the degree that they are comfortable with for prenatal care assessment, palpating baby’s position, catching baby, and assessing the well-being of your baby. You develop your birth space and wisdom, skills, and tool sharing are available to guide you along each path of this Rite of Passage.

Serving through the Childbearing Years

I have been called to spread the Gospel of Yeshua (Jesus) and seek to do this through my midwifery practice in a way that I hope glorifies His spirit working in my life, no matter where you are in your personal journey, including if our beliefs differ.  Whether you are seeking a midwife for pregnancy, home birth, and breastfeeding support, TTC and looking for fertility support, interested in labwork for in-depth understanding of internal health, or improving wellness for hormonal balance I look forward to chatting with you about options for care.  I serve women and their families by offering the knowledge and services I am experienced to provide for your specific situation whether that is full midwifery care, a recommendation for another practitioner, transfer of care or transport for medical services, or parallel care alongside an alternate birth location.

fetoscope heart tones assessment photo by Ashly Collins Photography

Service Area

My general area is approximately 45-minutes from my home in Murraysville, WV, with a few regions slightly further that I regularly attend.  While I can provide prenatal, free birth, or virtual support to families outside of my radius or typical driving locale, families receive better care with midwives that are local to them, especially in the late pregnancy and postpartum seasons.

*Members within 45 minutes receive in-home visits for prenatal and postpartum.  Members over 45 minutes from me, or in an area outside of my typical driving direction, may be asked to come to me for prenatal and postpartum care.  Providing home services throughout a large radius in Appalachia means I need to consider my range to all clients, the ecological impact of driving long distances, and long-term personal physical and mental health.

Due to the rural nature of this region, I can’t provide a simple circular radius but consider the specific drive time and weather conditions from me to you.  This map shows the distance to areas surrounding me.  If you are within this area, reach out!  If you’re outside of this area, depending on my schedule and your circumstances, I would be happy to discuss options for serving you, including you coming to me for birth!  If you are considering care, reach out early in the first trimester because my calendar fills up fast.