Professional. Safe. Sacred.
YOUR MIDWIFE. YOUR BIRTH. YOUR WAY.
YOUR CHOICES MATTER.
YOUR CHOICES MATTER.
PROFESSIONALAdvanced Midwifery practitioners are certified professional and nurse midwives who provide safe, informed and holistic care for expecting mothers and families. We are Board Certified, Experienced, and both Nationally and State Licensed. If you have questions on the safety of out of hospital midwifery care, we implore you to read this article.
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SAFEYou have a right to informed health care decisions. Our practice provides the best care that not only nature intended, but also that the science supports, no matter where you choose to birth. Our practice supports evidence-based standards of care and birth options for expecting mothers. Still have questions on the safety of homebirth? Click here.
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SACREDWith social childbirth we are able to elevate 21st century maternity care by reinvigorating the roots of village-based care among women through connection, education and empowerment. By implementing social childbirth in our midwifery practice, we have created a space for communities of women to not only survive but thrive.
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The Clients We Serve
At Advanced Midwifery, we utilize a group approach to care in our midwifery practice in order to create space for communities of women to not only survive motherhood, but thrive in motherhood. This is the essence of the Social Childbirth movement. We were never meant to do this alone.
Clients that seek care with us include women who:
Clients that seek care with us include women who:
- Are interested in a holistic approach to their childbirth experience
- Are looking for other mothers to connect with as they journey through motherhood. Group care is about pregnancy, birth, and the years following. This model supports women throughout the beginning year of life of each new baby we welcome
- Desire home or birth center birth
- Desire water birth
- Want to have a Home Vaginal Birth After Cesarean
- Want to enjoy the group model of education and care but want to deliver in hospital
- Are ready to stop going down this motherhood path alone and are willing to invest their time and hearts into a community of mothers and reap the benefits!
The movement of birth from the home, where it was supported by a woman’s community, into the isolation of obstetrical care and hospitalized birth as the norm for all, did one thing very successfully - it caused women to become vulnerable, fearful, and disempowered through isolation, where before they were empowered, uplifted, and held in their connection. - Jessica Johnston
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Advanced Midwifery & Wellness was created with the soul purpose to empower women to empower themselves, their families, and their communities. Like the lotus flower, every empowered woman in turn ripples out and encourages many more women to likewise empower themselves and each other through connection, education, and community engagement. By implementing social childbirth in our midwifery practice, we have created a space for communities of women to not only survive but thrive.
Historically, the medical model of childbirth represents a gradual shift from birth in the home, attended only by women- to what we see predominant now with physician- attended hospital births.
In each phase of medicalization, birth crept further away from the social origins of childbirth: that it was a natural life event. This natural life-giving event was an experience that previously provided women with the support and community they deserve to receive as they entered into their next phase of life as a mother.
Historically, the medical model of childbirth represents a gradual shift from birth in the home, attended only by women- to what we see predominant now with physician- attended hospital births.
In each phase of medicalization, birth crept further away from the social origins of childbirth: that it was a natural life event. This natural life-giving event was an experience that previously provided women with the support and community they deserve to receive as they entered into their next phase of life as a mother.
"We love you Jessica! Super supportive and a book of knowledge! I could not have imagined my little ones birth any other way. She was able to guide me from beginning to end with so much support and provided us with so many options for prenatal care, delivery, and postnatal care, that I didnt even know existed when I had my first one at the hospital." -Maria Edwards
What does Social Childbirth Look Like?
Private Initial Appointments
At your first two appointments, we spend lots of time together discussing your ideal birth journey and getting to know you while introducing you to the care that Advanced Midwifery provides. We go over all of the financial planning for your birth, informed consent, labs and ultrasounds, risk assessment, active maternal health and nutrition, and we begin the journey in helping you make this birth your best yet!
Birth Social ™ & Prenatal Group Sessions
Advanced Midwifery is proud to utilize the prenatal curriculum Birth Social, created by Carolyn Reisman CPM, and designed specifically for mothers seeking midwifery care and out-of-hospital birth. Upon enrolling in care, you'll receive the Complete Prenatal Guide, a 300 page guide to all things pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and newborn. Over 8 prenatal appointment sessions, as a group we will share our experiences, questions, ideas, and knowledge. Group sessions have private prenatal appointment time built into them; you come for your prenatal, and you receive the opportunity to experience the sacred nature of social childbirth by belonging to a group of women also due around the same time as you. Group sessions run from approximately 18 weeks of pregnancy through 36 weeks of pregnancy, after which you will graduate to Transition Tuesday.
Sacred Circle Postpartum
In the first 7 days after birth, you will receive 3-4 comprehensive, nurturing, in-home postpartum care visits. Well mama checks will include vital signs and maternal health, breastfeeding support, and the sharing of information and ideas to help you feel supported both physically and emotionally. Well baby checks include the newborn metabolic screening, CCHD screening, vital signs, weight checks, latch support, and guidance in newborn care. It is important to us that you relax and try to stay in bed for the first week postpartum, so at Advanced Midwifery, we bring the care to you.
After your first week postpartum, we invite you to join the Sacred Circle. Sacred Circle is our weekly postpartum mothers group open to all of our clients and friends they would like to invite into the Circle. Similar to our group prenatal sessions, in Sacred Circle, your 2, 4, and 6 week postpartum appointments will be provided during the group time. Sacred Circle runs concordant with Transition Tuesdays, so it is truly a landing place for all of our mothers as they move through their childbearing experience. We encourage our mothers to continue in Sacred Circle for at least one year postpartum, and they are welcome always for when they need to replenish their community cup of support.
After your first week postpartum, we invite you to join the Sacred Circle. Sacred Circle is our weekly postpartum mothers group open to all of our clients and friends they would like to invite into the Circle. Similar to our group prenatal sessions, in Sacred Circle, your 2, 4, and 6 week postpartum appointments will be provided during the group time. Sacred Circle runs concordant with Transition Tuesdays, so it is truly a landing place for all of our mothers as they move through their childbearing experience. We encourage our mothers to continue in Sacred Circle for at least one year postpartum, and they are welcome always for when they need to replenish their community cup of support.
Insurance We Currently Accept:
Premera administered plans, Public Education Health Trust, EBMS, Multiplan, Cigna, Alaska Electrical Health Trust/Fund and Medicaid.
Premera administered plans, Public Education Health Trust, EBMS, Multiplan, Cigna, Alaska Electrical Health Trust/Fund and Medicaid.
Advanced Midwifery hopes to reinstate what we've lost- the community of childbirth
and the empowerment of women.
and the empowerment of women.
Jessica is such a dedicated midwife, I know because I have seen her in action, we attended births together, and I have seen her compassion in action. She loves her “work” (more like a calling really), she has so much patience with women in labor, but most of all, her love and light shine thru and she has this ability to tune in and “click” with the energy of birth. Any woman will be lucky to have her as a midwife, I sure feel lucky to have her as a friend and sister midwife.-Chinmayo Forro
