Approach to Home Birth

Traditional Midwifery Care

Taking responsibility for offerings I have had the privilege to learn, I am dedicated to bringing these ways and technologies back to my community. These foundational teachings are at the heart of my practice.

Clinical Knowledge Combined

Incorporating clinical skills has been a focus of my education, allowing me to practice and become licensed by the California Medical Board.

  • • Prenatal Care
    • Labor and Birth
    • Postpartum & Newborn Care

  • All your records, prenatal visits, contracts, agreements, appointments, messaging, and billing are managed through Client Care, a virtual portal. When you decide to come into care with me as your midwife I will send you an activation link to get started. This helps us to leave a smaller carbon footprint, (not using paper records) and provides a convenient way to access your healthcare records at any time

  • I am currently not able to receive Medi-Cal for insurance payments. I am in the process of applying to be a Medi-Cal provider.

    If you are interested in midwifery or birthing center care to receive Medi-Cal, there are many in our region that are able to take Medi-Cal and have your birth completely covered as far as costs out of pocket.

Postpartum Sealing Ceremony

The intention of the ceremony is for the birthing person to feel loved, supported, secure and confident in their ability to heal, parent and thrive, in addition to forming relationships with their ancestors, plant allies, the elements and other birthing people and to remember they are not alone.

Because the sealing ceremony can help cleanse, reconnect and reintegrate the self, body, mind, spirit, it is also helpful in healing other types of womb trauma (i.e: miscarriage, abortion, physical, emotional and sexual abuse) for all birthing folks.

The sealing ceremony is part of Mesoamerican Traditional Medicine and Indigenous Postpartum Care. In indigenous traditions around the world, the postpartum period is just as important as the prenatal and birthing process.

With this offering, we welcome the closing of one cycle while preparing ourselves to be open for the next. These services are available after 6 weeks postpartum to families regardless of where they birth.

What’s included

  • Using specific elastic bandages, we bind the abdomen and hips to increase stability in movement and support the abdominal muscles. This assists in supporting the pelvic floor muscles, ligaments and fascia that have done so much hard work during pregnancy. Moxibustion over the abdomen and pelvis are also used to facilitate healing and warmth.

  • Working in relation with specific plants, we can guide healing and recovery giving thanks for their support. Utilizing a bajo, or vaginal steam bath, followed by a baño or herbal bath, then a limpia or herbal sweeping, and nourishing teas and infusions, we invite a nurturing recovery.

  • With rebozo medicine, we seal off this cycle and get ready emotionally and spiritually to become open for a new cycle in our lives. We seal or hold the bones closed with the cloth, working with cantos or songs and practice honoring our ancestral guides.

Closing one cycle and being open for the next.

In ceremony we are calling in all that is sacred to you and your beliefs. We invite those folks who have walked with you on this journey, listening to the messages our bodies and pregnancies bring. With intention and respect for our ancestral legacies, healing comes.

Well Body Care

Exams, pelvic steaming, testing and more from your own home.

We provide a safe and inclusive service for all. You deserve a judgement-free environment that meets your healthcare needs.

  • Provided in your own home, in as comfortable a setting as possible. As a trauma-informed provider, clients set the pace, are in charge of their bodies and privacy they need.

    Depending on your needs, well body exams can also include:
    • Pap Smear in your home
    • Breast/chest exam
    • STI screening
    • Review of birth control options

  • My license allows me to order various lab tests and send you the results. Testing can be as discreet as you need, discussing risk factors and signs or symptoms without shame or judgement. Ordering other wellness labs such as thyroid, Vitamin D, and others can be ordered as well.

  • All family identities and structures are welcome in my practice. Dos Latidos Birth Services welcomes LGBTQIA2S+ clients for well body exams and is a trans inclusive practice.

What’s Included

Fertility, Preconceptional Counseling, and Insemination

Individualized Care In the
Comfort of Your Home

  • In order to maximize our chances of becoming pregnant, there are many ways we can “set the scene” for ideal fertility. Together, we can review tracking your cycle, we can find the window of time most advantageous for conception. We typically review diet, sleep, stress and other factors that can affect your fertility. This can include things like a diet diary review, helping you decipher your fertility chart and your precise ovulation day, or consultations about referrals for alternative therapies or fertility medications.

  • Tests for donors, Step Parent Adoption vs Second Parent Adoption and CA legalities specific to insemination are all topics we cover. We can also discuss sourcing sperm, donor selection, and a plan moving forward on your path.

  • We can demystify the process of purchasing sperm or the use of fresh sperm. Intrauterine Inseminations and Intracervical Inseminations done in the comfort of your home with true informed consent provided. You can make the space whatever you need for the process to feel comfortable.

What’s included

Virtual Fertility Consultation

1 hour long session regarding details of conception planning, insemination window and review of lab results.

In Home Insemination

Prices and services differ using frozen sperm, not frozen sperm at this time.