Our Services
- Complete prenatal care
- Personalized birth planning
- Family-centered services
- Childbirth education
- Water-birth at home option, using a professional birthing tub
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Comprehensive Birth Package for a Holistic Home Birth
We believe in a holistic approach is to birth, taking into account medical, emotional, and educational factors. Our home birth package includes attentive prenatal care, vital educational resources, and even postpartum care for when you need that extra support.
Family Tree Birth Services is happy to offer midwifery care to rural families including Florence, Tucson, and Maricopa. Please inquire for pricing packages available to rural families.
What is Home Birth?
Home birth was, until the advent of modern medicine, the de facto method of delivery. Today, many families find that the clinical setting of a hospital is a sterile, stress-inducing experience, whereas a home birth allows them more control over their surroundings, support team, and choices. Ninety-nine percent (99%) of low-risk birthers who have birthed vaginally before will birth successfully at home. For first time pregnancies, the numbers are only slightly lower: ninety-five percent (95%) of low-risk first time birthers will birth successfully at home.
Water Birth
Water birth is an option where the depth of water in the tub enables the one to sit in water that covers your belly completely. The chemical and hormonal effects of water immersion take effect after about twenty minutes and peak around ninety minutes, providing great relief to the laboring person. Water birth is a wonderfully safe option for many, and provides many benefits to both the parent and baby.
- Water provides significant pain relief.
- Water immersion provides perineal support, decreasing the risk of tearing during delivery.
- Buoyancy promotes more efficient uterine contractions and improved blood circulation.
You can read more about the safety and effectiveness of water birth here: Evidence Based Birth