All prenatal and postpartum care (including labwork) is provided in the comfort of your own home (or in your office, or at a park) convenient for you.

Traditional, herbal, mind-body approach to perinatal wellness with guidance and support on health, fetal positioning, and physiological labor progression.

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

Family-Centered Home Birth

Midwifery Care with a holistic focus.  Providing families in the Mid-Ohio Valley and surrounding region with the opportunity to be cared for with a birth-is-simple approach.  My traditional care puts the mother at the center of knowledge, and responsibility, and encouraging the family to support her self-wisdom through this time.  You and your family’s needs and desires are my central focus creating the space for attentive and individualized care for pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, and postpartum.  You are encouraged to birth in a way that feels instinctive and desirable to you and you are expected to be an active leader for the midwifery care and support you would like to receive.

Traditional Midwife Guardian

With non-medical traditional midwifery care, unnecessary interventions are avoided and this normal life event is supported through mind-body-environment support.  You can receive counseling for overall wellness, nutrition, maternal-fetal alignment, movement, and therapies to support spontaneous, physiological birth in the comfort of your own home.  You will have tools and techniques available to you to guide your care, discover early signs of imbalance, and support variations.  Along with my network of assistants and midwives, we work together to develop a trusting relationship that helps you to enjoy our presence in your space, increasing the psychophysiological transformation of birth.  My hope is that you utilize my knowledge during pregnancy so that you don’t need my advanced skills for birth, but they are available if it becomes necessary.  Learn more about me on the Meet Danielle page.

water birth photo by Ashly Collins Photography

Client Autonomy

Autonomous and sovereign family decisions are at the core of my belief as a birth guardian.  I enjoy 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 physiology.  I can teach you and your birth team to take complete sovereignty over your care and lead to the degree that you are comfortable with for activities such as prenatal care assessment, palpating baby’s position, catching baby, and and assessing the well-being of your baby.  You are the guide of your birth space and I am available to share wisdom, skills, and tools along this journey.

Serving through the Childbearing Years

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 without labeling risk.  I offer the knowledge and services I am experienced to provide for your specific situation whether that is full midwifery care, a recommendation for another provider, transfer of care or transport, or parallel care alongside an alternate birth location.  I also host the monthly MOV Breastfeeding, Birth, & Parenting Social in Parkersburg, WV to support our MOV community through these years, which is a great place to stop by and say hello.

fetoscope heart tones assessment photo by Ashly Collins Photography