Services

My service area includes: Central Massachusetts, Eastern Massachusetts, the North Shore, Southern New Hampshire, and the New Hampshire Seacoast.

I regularly attend births in:
Massachusetts: Worcester, Leominster, Fitchburg, Marlborough, Concord, Lexington, Waltham, Lowell, Lawrence, Haverhill, Gloucester, Beverly, Salem, Newburyport, and surrounding communities.
New Hampshire: Nashua, Manchester, Concord, Dover, Portsmouth, Exeter, Keene and nearby towns.

If you’re unsure whether your location is within my service area, please reach out—I’m always happy to talk about your options and travel possibilities.

While there certainly are all kinds of fluids involved in the birth process we are careful about keeping your home clean! We bring supplies to protect your furniture and home, we start a load of laundry and clean up before leaving. 

Midwives train regularly in managing certain complications at home and knowing when to transport to a hospital. I carry the necessary equipment and medications to address the most common complications. If a transfer to the hospital happens I stay with you offering support and communicating with hospital staff. My goal is to help people have a safe birth; if signs show up that staying at home may not be the safer option, we change plans. 

Yes! I provide a birth tub kit to all of my clients. You only have to order a potable water hose, adapter, and liner.

I offer all routine prenatal labs. I can order ultrasounds at community clinics and hospitals.

While home birth cost significantly less than what a low-intervention hospital birth would cost, I am intimately aware that the out of pocket cost can be a barrier to access for many families. I am committed to making home birth care accessible to those who desire it. 

I offer a sliding scale for those who face *financial hardship. Please do not hesitate to ask about how to make care accessible for you. Every person deserves to have full access to the kind of care they need and desire. 

I offer 2 options:

1) IN HOME: A package fee of $6,300 for prenatal, birth, postpartum & newborn care. All care is received in the comfort of your own home.

2) IN OFFICE: A package fee of $5,500 for most prenatal visits and your 6 week postpartum visit to be done in my home office in Westford, MA. Your 36 week prenatal, birth, and most postpartum visits would still be done in your home.

The fee is typically paid as follows: $500.00 non-refundable payment at initial visit, monthly payments, being paid in full by 36 weeks of pregnancy.

Care includes:

• all prenatal visits

• lending library

• direct access to me via phone and email from the time of hire through 6 weeks postpartum

• I am on-call for your birth from 37 weeks on

• labor and birth support and monitoring

• immediate postpartum and newborn care, we stay a minimum of 2 hours after birth

• access to water-birth tub

• the birth assistant fee

• postpartum visits around days 1, 3, 7, 14 and 6 weeks

• additional prenatal and postpartum visits as needed

• routine lab collection

(fee does not include the cost of ultrasounds and lab processing fees, these are ordered out at local clinics and are often covered by your insurance)

*while most folks have to make sacrifices to pay for their home birth -eating out less often, foregoing a family vacation, picking up extra hours at work, etc. For some families paying for their home birth would present such a hardship that without community support it is simply not attainable. This is who the sliding scale is here for.