Meet Your Midwife
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Hi, I'm Jessica
I serve clients and families residing in the Anchorage, Eagle River, and Girdwood regions of Alaska that desire holistic, informed maternity care and the sacred experience of home and water birth. I offer comprehensive midwifery care, educational classes, and both intensive postpartum care and midwife-as-doula support packages for those seeking midwifery care and education but requiring hospital delivery.
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TESTIMONIALS
Why Advanced Midwifery?
Copy about you and why you're different, right fit for your client
Complete Maternity and Newborn Care
My clients enjoy the comforting reassurance of their care schedule. Each mother has a prenatal appointment once a month until 28 weeks of pregnancy, every other week between 28-36 weeks, and once a week from 36 weeks until delivery. Inclusive to home birth client care is my in-depth postpartum care offering where mother and baby are seen in-home for the first week postpartum, and in office at 2, 4, and 6 weeks.
HomebirthEnjoy our most sought after care package. Delight in water therapy and water birth if your heart desires. I bring the tub, and when my team and I leave, no one will be able to tell that you delivered a baby at home just hours earlier. Revel in the comfort of the sacred act of home birth, surrounded by those you love and choose.
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Hospital BirthGetting the OB you want at your delivery happens at around 25% of hospital OB-led births. In addition to comprehensive prenatal and postpartum care, I offer Midwife-as-Doula services to my clients who seek the comforting continuity of midwifery care and attention, but are required or prefer to deliver in hospital.
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In-Home Postpartum CareEvery client deserves to be well cared for when they get home, no matter where they gave birth. I offer intensive, in-home postpartum care for all mothers, where I help you optimize latch and breastfeeding, strengthen postpartum healing, and relax nervous tension around "what's normal" in the first 40 days postpartum.
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EducationEducation is empowerment - as we know better, we do better. Advanced Midwifery is proud to offer a robust selection of pregnancy, postpartum, newborn, and parenting classes year round to both clients and the public. Clients of Advanced Midwifery are given free, unlimited access to classes throughout their care with us. Please see class descriptions below to learn more.
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Class Offerings
Welcome to.....
Is This Freaking Normal??
An Online, Interactive Class Series about Pregnancy, Birth, & Parenthood.
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Is This Freaking Normal??
An Online, Interactive Class Series about Pregnancy, Birth, & Parenthood.
Follow us on social media for current offerings and upcoming class topics.
Register today!
Is this Freaking Normal?? Class Topics
- First Trimester - I’m Pregnant, Now What? Learn about your prenatal care schedule, the labs and tests of pregnancy, childbirth education and doulas, and first trimester health tips. A must for first time parents!
- Wholehearted Pregnancy: Dive deep into what really makes up a healthy pregnancy. Learn how to approach motherhood from a wholehearted perspective by integrating healthy nutrition, movement, and mindset into your daily life.
- Newborn Basics: All things new baby! Learn the ins and outs of newborn behaviors, basic reflexes and soothing techniques, and what's freaking normal vs not about baby vitals and patterns.
- Parenting Decisions: Informed consent comes from being informed. Come get your questions answered and have open conversation around vaccinations, circumcision, vitamin K, eye ointment, and more.
- Birth Prep: This class is designed specifically for those clients seeking home or birth center birth, but is helpful to all women who want to prepare their minds, bodies, and hearts for birth. Gear up and get ready to have your best birth yet with checklists, supplement recommendations, labor and postpartum support Q&As, and more.
- What Happens in Labor?: The whats, whens, wheres, whys, and hows of labor. Get your questions answered about water birth, cervical dilation, calling the midwife, your water breaking, and coping/thriving measures for labor.
- Birth Complications: Birth inherently carries risk. To give informed consent to community birth, you need to know the risks. We discuss the statistics and plans for birth complications and transport.
- Postpartum: The most sacred of time. We discuss immediate postpartum flow and procedures, postpartum visit schedule and what to expect, and go over the delicate details of how to help your body best heal after giving birth.
- What's Normal about Going Overdue?: Watching a due date come and go can be frustrating, but it doesn’t have to be. Come discuss the tips and tricks of managing a postdate pregnancy and be reassured that babies typically know their best birthdays.
- Fourth Trimester and Matrescense: Birth is only the beginning. We dive into the first year postpartum and the rite of matrescense, the first year post birth for every woman after every baby she has. We discuss exercise, mental health, birth spacing and contraception options, and more.
"Jessica is an amazing midwife! I can’t believe we didn’t go through midwifery for my first born. The level of care and knowledge she has is amazing. You will truly feel empowered through the process and I have learned so much from her compared to when I went with Providence Hospital. The difference is night and day. I wouldn’t change a single thing, and I will forever be grateful to Jessica for making everything such an easy process. If I was able to go through a natural birth, so can you! And I did it because of her and her amazing team! "
Why Choose Advanced Midwifery?
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With my clinical practice Advanced Midwifery, I am honored to help answer the call of women everywhere to bring birth back into the sacred circle of community, making the motherhood experience a shared one that uplifts and supports all involved. By giving my clients unlimited access to educational classes and resources throughout their care, I offer them access to the knowledge they need to feel strong in their choices in care. The benefits of prenatal and postpartum education are undeniable. Education and social support during labor and in the weeks prior to and after the birth provide a vital service to women. The research reveals that comprehensive prenatal education in combination with supportive providers is shown to:
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