My Kind of Midwife
Supporting women and families on the personal and amazing journey into parenthood
My Kind of Midwife provides private midwifery services for women and families, at your home, in Melbourne’s South East, the Mornington Penisula and Gippsland areas.
Our goal is to provide a calm and peaceful birthing environment in your home and we work closely with you to facilitate your birthing wishes.
There is good quality evidence to support homebirth is a safe option for women and babies.
Women cared for by a known midwife in her own environment are significantly more likely to have a normal vaginal birth and successfully breastfeed. They are more likely to be satisfied with their care and consider their experience a positive one.
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Benefits of planning a homebirth
Recent Victorian data demonstrates that women who plan to homebirth are…
More likely to
- Be satisfied with care and experience
- Have a normal vaginal birth
- Successfully breastfeed
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- Assisted/instrumental birth
- Caesarean
- Episiotomy
- Medical pain relief
Data acquired from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Why us?
Continuity of care
We are your primary point of contact and provider of care throughout your pregnance, labour, birth & post birth.
We come to you
We come to your home, attending check ups, education and care in your own familiar space with the people you love present.
Endorsed midwife
As an endorsed midwife we can order relevant ultrasounds, tests and medicines