Functional
Wellness
Counseling
Functional Health
Lifestyle guidance for women and men to optimizing wellness influenced by stress, nutrition, and hormones in the childbearing years to support physiologic conception, pregnancy, labor, fertility, and the transition to menopause.
Lab Assessments
Functional lab assessments and in-home lab testing for nutritional, digestive, and hormonal understanding to guide therapies including self-testing and venous blood draws with a focus on optimal range assessments and functional well-being.
Fertility
Pre-conception guideance for TTC planning, cycle balancing, fertility-awareness counseling, cycle tracking, and lifestyle assessments for optimizing sperm and egg health in the childbearing years. Excellent option for just-engaged or newlywed couples.
I have been brought on the journey of a lifetime. You've shown me how capable I am. You left space for God to work out details. The wisdom and knowledge you've given is something that brings this new mom comfort. I'm grateful God created midwives to give support but even more grateful you choose to use the gift God gave you. Thank you for listening, encouraging, praying, providing, supporting. You're a gift!
- Sarah, Home Birth Midwifery Care
Functional Wellness & Lab Assessments
Functional Wellness is not a diagnosis of dis-ease, but a guideline for root-cause healing of imbalance. With holistic guidance for lifestyle changes and functional lab assessments, *members can start to make choices that affect generations to come, not just the short-term band-aid treatments of symptoms. A plethora of labs are available including venous lab assessments from any lab, nutrient and toxin testing, GI Maps, DUTCH hormone testing, full thyroid panels, autoimmunity tracking, hair analysis, and food sensitivities testing. Many tests are available in your own home without a scheduled visit. While diagnosis is not the approach, a variety of methods can be used to help members gain access to information and resources that help them better understand their past illnesses, optimize current health, adjust their lifestyle to support balance, and help whole families thrive in the years to come. Ask about lifestyle evaluations and lab reports using a Functional, Optimal, Long-Term Health approach.
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Breastfeeding Counseling
With over 15 years experience supporting breastfeeding families, and 6 years of personal breastfeeding experience, I seek to help you have a joyous and long breastfeeding relationship through virtual or in-home support. Breastfeeding support creates a space for preventative education and learning basic breastfeeding techniques as well as troubleshooting for all stages of breastfeeding from birth through weaning and tandem nursing. Gentle latch guidance helps mothers to follow the natural flow of breastfeeding, supporting you to balance this learning dance with your new baby and family even when a lactation consultant isn’t with you.
Breastfeeding is the completion of the birth and the beginning of the parenting relationship. The whole birth journey needs to be considered when supporting a new mother. Breastfeeding support includes:
- Gentle Latch and Positioning Techniques
- Noticing when Baby is Swallowing Milk
- Breastfeeding Education & Awareness
- Birth Story Sharing
- Personal Goal Assessment
- Breast Compressions
- Pain & Discomfort Prevention
- Pain & Discomfort Troubleshooting
- Supplemental Nursing System/Lactation Aid
- Muscle/Alignment Awareness
- Tongue & Lip Tie Assessment (Tethered Oral Tissues TOTS)
- Referrals to Oral Restriction Revision, and other, providers as Needed
Rebozo Therapy
From full-body relaxation to easing back discomfort and repositioning a baby during pregnancy or labor and healing postpartum, rebozoy therapy is an excellent addition during the childbearing year. A rebozo (or Mexican shawl) is a traditional Mexican midwifery tool utilized for many generations that was a part of traditional Mexican clothing and became a tool for daily life. Everything from carrying food and water jugs to perinatal support, a rebozo is a simple piece of hand-woven cloth that has a multitude of uses. These rebozo therapies were passed down from Traditional Mexican Midwife, Naoli Vinaver, through her online course, The Art of Birth, and a blessing was given to serve with these techniques to continue thee tradition of supporting physiological birth including:
- Rebozo relaxation full-body prenatal support
- Rebozo prenatal abdominal support for varicosities and diastasis recti
- Rebozo baby repositioning and labor progression
- Rebozo postpartum belly binding
- Rebozo relaxation full-body “closing of the bones” postpartum support