Home Birth Midwifery Service

Contact: Mosny, Kim L.

Business Description: Comprehensive Woman Care The midwives of Home Birth Midwifery Service honor, respect and humbly practice the ancient art of Midwifery, serving the entire metro-Richmond complex and its surrounding communities. Our service area includes <90-mile radius of Richmond, VA. We are specialists in home and water birth, with 17+ years of experience attending women and assisting them to have the safe and sacred birth experience that they desire. Giving birth WHERE and WITH WHOM you chose is not only your choice ... it is your RIGHT! Your baby has the RIGHT to be safely, gently and lovingly borne. Pregnancy, childbirth & breastfeeding are normal, natural states of body, mind and spirit for the healthy mother. The procreative and nuturing act of becoming a mother is a central and life-changing event in the life of a woman. The Midwife honors this event with humble respect. The Midwife offers assistance and guidance throughout the childbearing years as a counselor, birth attendant, and friend. She is a skilled specialist in attending normal births, giving care and advice to the mother in pregnancy, labor and childbirth, and care for the mother and newborn following delivery. She is co-responsible, with the parents, for safe-guarding the course of events; and to the best of her ability and skills, ensuring safe passage for both mother & baby. A Midwife able to detect abnormalities in mother or child referring to & obtaining medical aid, while providing quick and appropriate care to mother, child or both. She is trained in emergency health care management and in life-saving skills and techniques; and she shall utilize such measures when necessary. She maintains a respect for the integrity of the birthing family and the naturally bestowed ability of a woman to give birth. Out of respect for the birthing process, the Midwife believes that unnecessary interference is an unwise interruption of the body’s function and seeks to avoid disruption and intentional manipulation of this normal, bodily function. The Midwife carefully watches and guides, assisting the family in the way that is of their choosing, respecting the sacredness of the family, their personal choices, their spiritual beliefs, their privacy & their unique birthing right of passage. Our collaborating physicians, Complete Care Center for Women, are supportive and helpful, taking great care to integrate their services with ours to offer the very best transfer of care when/if that becomes necessary. A former client, Melanie P. states: "Kim was my midwife for the births of my son in 2006 and daughter in 2008. As a so-called "older" first time mother, yet someone who is very educated and aware of what I wanted for myself and my children, it was just obvious that Kim offered me the experience, confidence, and supportive care I needed. Although friends and family doubted my home-birth decision, Kim helped me to first trust her, then trust myself, my body and the process of birth. Ultimately, both of my children were brought into this world in a way that empowered me and jump-started my inner voice of motherhood. Although many friends have commented on my courage in choosing a midwife, I truly can't imagine having a baby and not being in my own home with Kim. The greatest transformation occurred during the very rapid and extremely relaxed, delivery of my second baby when my husband commented, 'Wow, that was really cool. I didn't know it could be like that.' To bring him around to an understanding of what midwifery offers over the medical model is testimony to Kim's support and skill. Kim will always hold a very special place in my heart, for what she taught me about me."

Services: Alternative Medicine, Health Workshops, Massage Therapy, Equipment Rentals, Aromatherapy, Doulas, Midwife

In Business Since: 1993

Service Area: Greater-Richmond VA area and surrounding communities (90-mile radius). Our office is in Midlothian, VA

On Angie's List Since: 5/14/2011

Free Estimates: No

Office Hours: Sun Closed, Mon 09.00 AM - 06.00 PM, Tue Closed, Wed 09.00 AM - 01.00 PM, Thu Closed, Fri 09.00 AM - 06.00 PM, Sat Closed .

Excluded Services: These Extra services/supply costs are NOT included: Lab Work & Ultrasounds Birth Kit (about $40) Additional Medical Supplies Insurance Filing Administration Fee (8% of your total reimbursement) Travel >45 miles (one time travel fee = $1/mile round trip) Water Birth Supplies (see our Water Birth Page for details & info!!) Physician's, hospital, anesthesia, lab fees, etc...

Licensed: Yes, I am appropriately licensed for my trade
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Senior Discount: No