What is considered a Low-Risk pregnancy?
We only deliver babies at home to women who are expected to have a good, normal outcome for both mother and baby. By maintaining healthy lifestyles eating right, exercising, avoiding harmful substances such as drugs, alcohol, tobacco and pesticides most of our clients remain low-risk. Some conditions that would not qualify you to deliver your baby at home are diabetes, epilepsy, HIV, hepatitis, heart disease and severe hypertension. Conditions occurring during pregnancy such as anemia, gestational diabetes or pre-eclampsia could also cause you to risk-out although these conditions can often be prevented or even reversed with proper prenatal care and nutrition. The focus of midwifery is to prevent problems from occurring, not just treat problems as they occur. Very few of our clients have ever needed to be transferred to an obstetrician due to risk factors.
