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SUFFOLK INDEPENDENT MIDWIVES LTD.
PRIVATE MATERNITY AND BIRTH CARE
FOR CAMBRIDGE, SUFFOLK & NORFOLK
Calm. Safe. Professional.
PRIVATE MIDWIFE SERVICES
Having a baby should be a wonderful and special experience.
Suffolk Independent Midwives, would like to offer you professional and personalised, one-to-one midwifery bespoke care. Services include antenatal care, postnatal care, enhanced breastfeeding support, home birth and hospital support packages. Your care will be family focused and tailor made for your own individual needs, and all in the comfort of your own home.
Specifically designed for those families who would love to experience the 'personal touch' and true individualised care.
I am pleased to be able to offer face to face appointments and hands on care.
I also support those clients with medical insurance, including Tricare.
Call me today, for an informal chat about my packages and the care I provide and find out how I can support and empower you and help you navigate your way through pregnancy and parenthood.
MEET YOUR MIDWIFE : SUFFOLK INDEPENDENT MIDWIVES LTD.
Joanna Dennison-Bird RM
I have been a registered Midwife since 2003, and have been an Independent (self-employed) Midwife since 2005, when Suffolk Independent Midwives Ltd was first established.
I have been lucky enough to have had the privilege of helping and supporting women and their families through-out their pregnancies and into their transition to parenthood for over 25 years. I feel incredibly passionate about empowering women to achieve a positive and rewarding experience. I specialise in natural child birthing techniques and offer complimentary therapies, including aromatherapy, reflexology, homeopathy, Rebozo/optimal fetal positioning, and relaxation/hypno birth techniques. I am fully committed in supporting you to take an active role in your pregnancy and birth, whatever your choices may be.
On a more personal note, I am a mother of 4 beautiful children, 3 of whom are now fully grown and my youngest son, who is now a teenager. We live close to Newmarket, Suffolk, with our a very naughty rescue dog, Bella.
MY SERVICES
How I Assist
As a midwife, I pride myself in providing you and your partner with safe and effective, one-to-one care and support, using the best available research-based evidence and guidance, so that you are able to make fully informed decisions. Care can begin early pregnancy, until your baby is 4 weeks old.
If you would prefer a shortened period of care, there is a package which begins at 31 weeks of pregnancy, includes a birth package and postnatal care until your baby is around ten days to 14 days old.
If you require just pregnancy care, or postnatal care only, then I am very flexible and able to facilitate this for you, and I have an excellent enhanced breast feeding support service, for your baby's first week.
For cost's of packages, please scroll down to the final page of this website.
Unfortunately, I do feel uncomfortable in providing just home birth services on there own and so I do not offer a 'home birth only' package.
If you feel unsure about which package is best for you, or would like to arrange a bespoke package of care, then just give me a call on 07754538701, for an informal chat and advice. Pleased be advised to book for care early - as I provide one-to-one care, I am restricted to the number of clients I have on my case-load at any one time.
Suffolk Independent Midwifery Ltd.
ANTENATAL VISITS
Informative and Compassionate
Beginning our relationship with an informal meet and greet, as your Midwife I am committed to your health and the well-being of your growing family, available whenever needed throughout your entire pregnancy as well as after giving birth. I will be there to provide you with continuous emotional and physical support, and answer any and all questions you may have.
* 24/7 telephone advice and support, direct to my own personal mobile telephone number for 'booked' clients. (This service is only available to patients of Suffolk Independent Midwives, not a general public information service)
* One-to-one antenatal visits are conducted in the comfort of your own home and are family friendly.
*Antenatal care to include all routine antenatal checks and any emergency call-outs.
* Checks are friendly and caring, but professional and planned to last around to one hour. However these may run longer, if you have lots of questions or concerns. I never want you to feel rushed or that you don't have the time to ask all the questions you want.
* Organising your required diagnostic screening, blood test's and ultrasound with your chosen hospital.
* Parent Education is specifically designed around your own personal needs and all one-to-one.
* Two informative and detailed 'labour and birth' discussion and planning appointment at around 34-36 weeks gestation for you and your partner.
* Support and advice in writing your birth plan.
* Optimal fetal positioning using 'Spinning Babies' techniques and Rebozo.
* Complimentary therapies for pregnancy, including massage, reflexology, aromatherapy and Hypnobirth.
LABOUR
Supportive and empowering
I specialise in home water birth and have had many years of experience and knowledge in supporting and empowering women to trust their bodies. I encourage you to utilise your own instincts during childbirth, so that with my care and guidance, you are able to achieve a positive, rewarding and safe birth experience.
Your birth is very special, and you should be treated with care and respect - always! So, with this in mind, it is very important to me that your labour is based on your own personal needs and I strive to offer you flexibility and control. My aim is for you to take an active role in birthing your baby and to fully experience that most precious of moments.
This philosophy is not just for home birth, but can also be incorporated into any hospital or birth unit environment, to support you in achieving the best outcome possible, with continuity of care and advocacy, from a known, trusted professional.
POSTNATAL SUPPORT
Your midwife/client relationship continues
Following your baby's birth, hourly to 2 hourly visits continue on a daily basis to begin with. This is to establish that you and your baby are physically and emotionally recovering after your delivery. Depending on your well-being, previous experience and personal wishes, these visits gradually become less over the next 4 weeks - usually to every other day, then every third or fourth day, as you become more and more confident, until you are coping independently with your new baby.
* One to one postnatal care for you and your baby for the first 2- 4 weeks - all in the comfort of your own home, with regular breastfeeding assessments included.
* 24/7 telephone consultancy continues, as before, for reassurance and advise.
* Physical well-being checks for you and baby, to make sure you are healing and recovering, following your baby's birth.
* Hands on guidance,advise and support with breastfeeding your baby.
* Regular baby weight checks, using specially designed mobile electronic scales.
* Help with baby care - everything from changing they're nappy or bathing, to soothing a 'gassy' baby.
* Information and guidance in acquiring birth certificates and registering your baby.
PRICES
For a list of packages and fee's, please scroll down, or if you dont see the package you require, then contact us to discuss your bespoke care requirements.
Contact :
joannajden@aol.com or call 07754538701 to speak with Jo
Packages and Fee's:
If you would like to arrange a payment plan, then please don't hesitate to call me. Most of my clients pay for services on a monthly basis.
Antenatal and postnatal package: £3000 (care from 12 weeks until baby is 4 weeks) £2500 (care from 28 weeks until baby is 2 weeks)
This package is ideal for those of you planning a C Section, hospital or birth unit delivery with a doula/NHS midwife, but would still value the extra 1-2-1 support and individualised care throughout your pregnancy and when you come home with your baby. Based on all of your clinical midwifery care needs in pregnancy, including routine monitoring for you and your baby. Individualised birth planning and labour preparation, colostrum harvesting, complementary therapies and natural child birthing techniques. Postnatal care consists of routine assessments and monitoring, breast feeding support, regular baby weight checks and newborn blood spot screening.
It makes such a difference to your birth journey to have continuity of care for your pregnancy and support into parenthood.
Gold Home Birth package: £6500 - includes antenatal care (from early pregnancy) and postnatal care (for 4 weeks)
This package also includes your home birth care, full PII coverage, as well as second midwife for delivery, use of Birth Pool and Entonox.
Silver Hospital/MLBU Support package: £6000 (includes antenatal and postnatal care, as described in gold package)
1-2-1 support in labour, by your Midwife, while in Obstetric Unit/Midwife-led Birth Unit.
Bronze Birth package: £6000 (Home Birth) £5500 (Hospital Support)
Care begins later in pregnancy, usually around 28 weeks gestation, until your baby is 10-14 days old. Similar to the Gold and Silver packages, Bronze includes a shortened version of your antenatal and postnatal care.
Entonox (Gas and Air): Included with home birth
Antenatal Care Only: £1500/£1250 Postnatal Care Only: £1500/£1250
One-Off appointments: £300
Book a single appointment for a one-off antenatal review, postnatal review and/or breast feeding support. Appointments are scheduled for 2-3 hours and include taking a detailed clinical history.
NIPE: Usually performed by hospital Doctor or NHS Midwife, free of charge.
Please note that prices are based on my usual work area, which is approximately 60 minutes from my base near Newmarket. If you live further away, then I can still provide care, but will need to add a small 'out of area' travel cost, to cover extra car fuel, wear and tear and travel time.
“Having Jo as my midwife, had a profound and lasting impact on my confidence in birth and motherhood. Jo's demeanour, knowledge and support, gave both my Husband and I confidence and she was essential to my positive experience and physical and emotional recovery. Jo had a special ability to make me feel like my baby was the most special baby she had ever held.''
Rebecca Bosch Slone
“My pregnancy experience with Jo, goes beyond birth. It began with my care during pregnancy and I formed a friendship with a wonderful woman. If I could keep Jo with me everyday, I would! Her smile and contagious happiness is the perfect asset to have on any day, but especially during this special time.”
Leslie Bridges
“Both my Husband and I met with Jo and immediately felt at ease and confident with her support. Through-out my pregnancy we developed a great relationship, so that when I found I was pregnant with my second baby, Jo was one of the first people we called.”