Prenatal Care & Home Birth with Coastal Midwifery

We provide compassionate, safe prenatal care and home birth support, ensuring you feel confident and nurtured throughout your journey. Your midwives are on-call for you, especially around your due date. Once active labor is confirmed, the on-call midwife will come to your home to assess and monitor you and your baby, staying with you through birth.

During labor, you’ll be encouraged to eat, drink, and move freely, with options like resting, walking, using a birth ball, shower, or birth tub. A birth assistant will join at the appropriate time to provide extra support for your midwife. No routine IVs, catheters, or continuous fetal monitoring are performed—these are only used if necessary.

After birth, your baby stays with you, with the first hour dedicated to bonding and breastfeeding. A newborn exam, including weight check and optional Vitamin K and erythromycin, is performed afterward. Your midwife and assistant handle clean-up and ensure you are fed, hydrated, and recovering well. They stay with you for 2-4 hours postpartum to monitor you and your baby.

Your midwife continues to support you with home visits at 24 hours and 3-5 days, followed by in-office visits at 2–3 weeks and 6 weeks, ensuring both you and your baby are thriving. During these postpartum visits, we will ensure mom is healing well and baby is thriving, and we include lactation support for every client in our care. We encourage pediatric visits within 72 hours, with recommendations available for natural care providers.

Community Prenatal Care Package with Hospital Birth

Midwives can take the place of an OB for low-risk pregnancies and will maintain the same schedule of prenatal visits throughout your pregnancy. Your midwife will do all of your blood work in her office and will send you to an ultrasound clinic for necessary ultrasounds. When you go into labor, you will receive the on-call provider at the hospital of your choice. Our midwives only attend home births.

Each of your prenatal visits is 30-60 minutes in length so that all of your questions are thoroughly answered and your emotional concerns are addressed. It is our responsibility to ensure that the client and baby are healthy as a whole.

This package provides support through your entire pregnancy, prepares you for a hospital birth with the OB of your choice, and then cares for your postpartum needs.

Comprehensive prenatal care in our office
Childbirth education
Labor triage and support
Lactation support
Nutritional counseling
Postpartum care with our midwives

Why Choose Coastal Midwifery?

At Coastal Midwifery, we believe in empowering families through education, personalized care, and a supportive birthing environment. Our team provides a holistic approach to maternity care, ensuring physical, emotional, and mental well-being.

Experienced, licensed midwives with a passion for natural birth.
Individualized care plans tailored to your needs.
Strong focus on informed decision-making and birth empowerment.
Seamless coordination with trusted healthcare providers if needed.

Schedule a Consultation

If you’re considering home birth or midwifery-led prenatal care, we invite you to schedule a consultation. Let us guide you through a beautiful and empowering birth experience.

Contact us today to learn more and begin your journey with Coastal Midwifery. Schedule your consultation now.

    
 
 
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   Emily Krings 
 June 15, 2024
 
 
 Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. I had a wonderful experience working with Christa of Coastal Midwifery. Her passion for birth work and extensive knowledge made me feel well cared for throughout my pregnancy as a first time mom and helped my somewhat skeptical husband feel comfortable with the home birth experience from the moment we met her. Christa prioritizes informed consent and made sure I completely understood all my options for every decision I had to make throughout my pregnancy. Every appointment was a safe space to ask as many questions as I had and talk through any concerns about pregnancy, the birth, and beyond. I especially appreciated that Christa offers tremendous postpartum support that you won’t find with most providers. I would definitely recommend Coastal Midwifery to anybody who is considering having a home birth in south Florida!
  
 
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   Julia Krechmar 
 May 17, 2024
 
 
 Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Had a beautiful experience with Coastal Midwifery! Highly recommend. I have experience with birth houses and other midwifes, Coastal Midwifery is absolutely amazing up to date research, years of experience and heart filled with love. Always felt comfortable and cared for. Responsive via texts and helpful with range of questions. Had a home birth and if ever do it again would only do with Costal Midwifery. Even my husband who is more leaning to medical model of birth felt very safe with Coastal Midwifery. We were taken care way and beyond. Thank you!
  
 
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   Lauren Greene 
 March 11, 2024
 
 
 Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Prenatal, birth and postpartum care with Christa has been such a fantastic experience for me and my family. The specialized level of midwifery care and time spent getting to know you, your body and your baby is truly unmatched. Christa is so calm and calming, so knowledgeable and is so very good at her job. Christa also has a very buttoned up practice with great organization, recommendations for everything you could need and she is a great communicator. Every pregnant person should be fortunate enough to experience the level of care and trust in the body and the birthing process that Christa offers.
  
 
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   Rosy Padron 
 February 12, 2024
 
 
 Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Had an amazing, beautiful experience! I’d never known care like this from medical professionals; I felt beyond heard and supported throughout my entire pregnancy and birth. Christa is patient and kind, addressing every concern. Cannot recommend her practice enough!
  
 
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   Patricia Janet Ruiz 
 September 18, 2023
 
 
 Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. My husband and I are beyond grateful to have found Christa and her team. This was my first home birth and I would have not changed a thing about it. Christa is extremely knowledgeable, warm, and helpful. Her years of practice and experience give her the tools to be prepared in any situation. My son had a shoulder dystocia and both her and Kelly were quick to change my birthing position and help maneuver him out. In a situation as delicate as this, she was calm and collected and never panicked. Thank you Christa for such a wonderful experience from beginning to end!
  
 
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   Natalie Tott 
 August 30, 2023
 
 
 Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. I had the most wonderful pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journey with Christa as my midwife. I immediately connected with Christa upon meeting her and knew she had to be my midwife for my first home birth. She is so knowledgable, experienced, supportive, empowering and relaxed which I found was really special to find. She has a clear love for babies and her work, and I had complete trust in her which made my life 10x easier. It was so wonderful having the continued 1:1 appointments to address anything and everything that came mind. She fully set my husband and I up for success in taking care of our baby without even having to know what questions to ask, and I really appreciated the level of care dedicated to my not only physical, but emotional and mental wellbeing in the postpartum period as well. She gave me so much confidence and empowered me leading up to and while birthing and is a big believer in listening to your body/ following your intuition which I found to be so important- nothing was forced! If you're looking for a midwife in South Florida, I highly recommend Christa!
  
 
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   Maria Radcliffe 
 July 17, 2023
 
 
 Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Christa was PHENOMENAL!  This was my second home birth.  I was very nervous since I moved here from Illinois and my first home birth was there.  Christa had such a loving, calm, and professional demeanor at every appointment!  My second birth came on extremely fast and Christa and her team were such an excellent support system.  I am so grateful to have found such an amazing Midwife!  I recommend her to anyone and everyone I met!
  
 
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   Brett Lowy 
 June 16, 2023
 
 
 Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Our experience was beyond words outstanding. Everything was explained in perfect detail to us and we felt extremely comfortable and happy throughout the entire process from our first visit and all the way post birth. We would not choose anyone else for our Home birth, we were blown away with the professionalism and Care that was given to my wife and our baby throughout this entire journey.