Someday, soon, you’re going to be sharing the story of one of the most sacred and sentimental experiences of your lifetime – the birth of your child.  Frisco Birth Center truly embraces the belief that your experiences through pregnancy, birth, and the first weeks of your baby’s life will have a profound impact on you and the way you see yourself and how you parent. 

Throughout pregnancy you will experience a wide range of emotions.    When the day of your birth finally arrives, and your  newborn looks in your eyes as you bring her to your chest for the first time, you’ll have a whole new, rich, wave of emotions. 

We are fortunate to live in a metroplex with many fine midwives to choose between.  There is a “midwife for everyone”.  We all have different strengths and temperaments.

At Frisco Midwifery & Birth Center, our philosophy differentiates us from other practices. 

We differentiate ourselves by fully embracing physiologic birth.  We support the natural process of labor and birth without interruptions and unnecessary interventions.  There are many subtle ways that philosophy shows up in labor.  For example, we support the mother to birth at the pace her baby and body are ready – so we don’t do directed pushing.  We know that the ideal labor hormones are made in the primal brain, so we don’t ask mothers a lot of questions in labor – we support you more intuitively, respecting the quiet environment.  We are always striving to find ways to help birth be both safe and sentimental.

We protect your oxytocin (natural labor hormones) by doing an early labor assessment (usually in your home) to help you know if "it's time" to minimize the risk you'll "be sent home" in early labor.

We allow you to guide the decision of whether we check your dilation. We don't have a requirement to assess your cervix in order to admit you in labor.

We (and our midwifery colleagues) are also very different from traditional medical practices:

We practice ‘holistic’ care which means we look at the whole person, body, mind and heart/soul. 

Body:  At every prenatal appointment we schedule plenty of time to check on the physical wellbeing of mom & baby by checking vitals, listening to heart tones, measuring your growing abdomen, etc. 

Mind:  Then, we answer about your questions, offer educational resources from our lending library and extensive handouts to help you feel prepared.

Heart:  The greatest benefit of holistic midwifery care is the opportunity to create heart-to-heart connections so you feel seen, heard, and safe with your birth team.  We are intentional about caring for your heart too.

Frisco Midwifery & Birth Center is committed to creating an intimate, concierge-style birth experience.

And, we never want to miss a birth!

We put as much focus on the experience of the baby as we do on the experience of the parents.  We practice evidence based care and support the parents by encouraging confidence-building, family-bonding experiences from the time we first glimpse the baby’s head and through the weeks that we provide care for the MotherBaby

• Physiologic Care:  We carefully observe birth, but do not intervene or interrupt the process.  We do not pull the head, or force the process.  Mothers work to bring babies earthside at their own pace, safely and patiently.

• The first touch goes to the Parents.  As the head emerges, we love to guide the mother to touch the sweet soft head. As the shoulders emerge, we encourage the mother and father to place their hands under the baby as a commitment to have a safe place in your embrace for a lifetime.  We often support one or both parents receiving the baby with our guidance.

• The birth team honors the sacred experience of birth by being silent so the first voices the baby hears are the voices of their parents.

• We wait to clamp and cut the umbilical cord until the placenta detaches on its own.  It’s a beautiful support for the baby as he/she practices breathing air for the first time.  We don’t want to rush the process.

• Uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact with the mother and/or father during the first 2 hours after the birth is an important way to support the health and wellbeing of the baby, and the whole family.

• Breastfeeding is natural but it’s not always easy.  We provide breastfeeding education before birth, and breastfeeding support immediately after birth to help you get off to a great start from the first latch through the first 6-weeks of life.

Yes!  Childbirth education is a central part of Frisco Midwifery & Birth Center’s care. Before pursuing midwifery, each of us in the practice were certified childbirth educators and/or trained doulas.  We incorporate education in many of our prenatal appointments. 

We offer monthly birth, breastfeeding, coping skills, and baby care classes.

We have priced them on the lower side so you have access to education in the environment where you will birth. We also have links to other classes in our Trusted Colleagues directory.

You can learn more about the classes by clicking HERE.

We want your whole family to feel confident and equipped to take care of your precious baby.

LABS:

We draw all the standard pregnancy labs at our office during the initial prenatal appointment, at 28-weeks, and at 36-weeks.

There is no additional cost to these standard labs -- we cover them for you.

We sure do! We lovingly call “water birth” and “aqua-dural” because of the effective pain relief it provides.