Homebirth midwifery is a true labor of love. We must love what we do to be on call and available for you 24/7! However, the blessings involved in caring for women, babies, and families make it all worth it if as a profession we can make an honest living. In furtherance of providing every family with a homebirth opportunity, we feel that fees for this valuable service must be kept competitive yet fair, and most important, realistic. We are committed to keeping homebirth safe, affordable, and accessible to as many families as possible while still providing the care that you trust and deserve. In order to do this we do limit the number of families that we can serve on a monthly basis. As such, it is wise to reach out early in pregnancy to determine our availability.
Our care package includes routine prenatal visits and labs; birth pool rental; anatomy scan ultrasound order and any orders for medically necessary ultrasounds; 3rd trimester visit to your home; arrival at your home when in active labor; planned attendance by Julie and Kara at your delivery and immediate postpartum course; non-professional Iphone photos and birth video as circumstances allow and per your consent; 1 day and 1 week postpartum home visits for mama and baby; completion of state-mandated newborn screenings; preparation of birth certificate paperwork; 6 week office or home postpartum visit for mama and baby; access to prescription medication if needed during pregnancy and for 6 weeks postpartum; access to us for questions up to 3 months postpartum; 24/7 text and phone call communication with us directly. There are very minimal costs outside of our package for birth supplies.
For families interested in learning more about our care, we host a meet and greet every other Thursday at Home Holistic, 7927 Floyd St., downtown Overland Park, from 12pm-1pm. Please sign up on the Home Holistic website under classes so that we may contact you in case of cancellation due to a labor. You may also email us at midwifepartners@gmail.com for more information. We look forward to hearing from you!
Understandably, families would like to use their health insurance to pay for their birth. At one time we were contracted with all of the major health insurance companies, but they would never recognize the differences between home and hospital birth and refused to adequately compensate for our services. As such we were faced with either closing our practice or redesigning our business model. We chose the latter and, like every other homebirth practice, we do not accept insurance as payment.
What most do not understand, however, is that even when they plan to birth in the hospital most families will have bills to pay - birth will not be without cost. There may well be shared costs for ultrasounds and labs (and the more ultrasounds you have the higher this cost); fees for prenatal care; and of course, deductibles as well as co-pays for both mom and baby for the hospital birth. Depending on each individual's deductible and specific maternity insurance benefits, you may end up paying much more for your hospital birth than you would for a homebirth.