Services | Cape Coral Midwifery

Prenatal Care

Appointments take place at our office, with the first appointment around 9-16 weeks. You are seen every four weeks until you reach 28 weeks, then you are seen every two weeks. You are seen weekly starting at 36 weeks gestation. Your midwife will draw your blood roughly three times during the pregnancy. You will be referred out for ultrasounds. You will also have a home visit around 35 weeks.

Labor & Delivery Care

Your midwife will arrive at your house and admit you when you are in active labor. She will stay to monitor you and the baby and help tend to your needs. Your midwife will encourage waterbirth and help guide you through delivery. She can help with complications that may arise and carries oxygen and medications and can resuscitate your baby if needed. Your midwife will stay with you about 2-6 hours after your birth. She can also suture you if you have any tears during delivery.

Postpartum Care

You are seen for three routine visits after you deliver. This is day 2-3 in your home, then at 2 weeks and 6 weeks postpartum, both in office. Your midwife can always see you more frequently should you have breastfeeding or other postpartum issues.

Birth Professional Billing will be our new third party biller! This means we can work to get you reimbursed for your delivery if you have health insurance.

If you do not have any health insurance at the time of sign up and you would like reimbursement, you have a few options:

1. You can sign up for medicaid, this will cover all labs, ultrasounds, prescriptions, and a hospital stay should you transfer in labor. You can not get reimbursed for the delivery with medicaid, this will simply alleviate any additional costs. You can sign up for medicaid here:

https://myaccess.myflfamilies.com/

2. You can opt to sign up for health insurance or a health share savings plan like MediShare. PPO is often the best and most folks will need a GAP exception.

3. You can pay for services out of pocket and your midwife will do her best to keep your out of pocket costs as low as possible.

Full Midwifery Care Including Home Birth $7,200

Services are $7,200 for full midwifery care including prenatal visits, birth in your own home, and postpartum care. You will have full 24/7 access to the midwife via phone and messaging. You will receive education on exercise and nutrition, prenatal information, labor and birth preparation, breastfeeding and postpartum care. $1,500 down is required at time of sign up. Payment plans will be offered upon signing up. Things to keep in mind when investing in a midwife is that the average cost of a vaginal delivery in a hospital is 20K(without insurance) and 30-50K for a cesarean.

Midwifery Care with Birth Pool Rental $7,450

This includes set up, a clean new tub liner($50), cleaning & draining after delivery, and same day removal.

Prenatal and Postpartum Care ONLY $5,500

For low risk mothers who seek hospital birth, but prefer to labor and deliver in the hospital. The total for this service is $5,500. This would not apply to mothers with high risk complications like twins, gestational diabetes, or other preexisting conditions.

Placenta Encapsulation with Amy Guerra $250

This is a great service for mothers who want extra nourishment postpartum who are wanting to reduce the risk of baby blues and postpartum depression. Typically the turn around time from taking your placenta to returning your pills to you - is within 72 hours. Although there is not much research on placental consumption, it is proven to contain hormones, mostly progesterone. The pills made from your placenta can help to wean you off these high hormone levels slowly.

Email Inquiries: amyguerra1031@gmail.com

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