After Birth Postpartum Services
If you have a doctor providing your prenatal, labor and birth care, live in North Vancouver, or close by and are interested in having an experienced midwife involved in your postpartum care. You can arrange for Vera’s postpartum midwifery services by self-referring and booking into her practice during your pregnancy. Arranging care when you are pregnant, enables seamless care after the birth of your baby. Intersted in this options fill in Vera's Client Intake Form.
Once received, Vera will connect with you. When a person has enrolled into her practice, the next stop would be to inform your doctor that you have a spot in a midwifery afterbirth postpartum service and that you would like to see Vera once in your 3rd trimester, to start preparing for baby feeding, postpartum adjustment and recovery. When you have informed your doctor of your preference for her postpartum service, Vera can then request to use your doctor's MSP number to cover this consultation and assessement visit, and can arrange a 3rd trimester appointment, based on your time preferences on your intake form. She will confirm this date and time by email. After this appointment, Vera sends a consultation report to your doctor and a summary email to you.
Besides receiving SELF-REFERRALS, Vera is pleased to also receive direct referrals from Obstetricians. Family doctors and Pediatricians
She is also happy to receive consultation and assessement requests from her midwifery colleagues to assist with their postpartum work-flow.
Vera loves connecting with folk and being a part of their early parenting journey!
Whether in the comfort of clients’ homes or in her office.
Her postpartum services include:
- For clients that book into her care during their pregnancies. There is a consultation and assessment visit in a person’s 3rd trimester to discover folk’s intentions about nurturing and early parenting their babies; their postpartum recovery and how best she and a client’s birth team can best support their needs.
- For clients in care that live on the North Shore. There are at least 6 visits over the first 6 weeks postpartum that are a mixture of remote and in-person appointments, with most of the visits taking place in a person’s home and the last 2 visits in Vera’s office. There are also unscheduled telephone consultations and email communication.
- Home visits and care begin on the 1st, or 2nd day after a client has been discharged from hospital. It is a client and/or their partner’s responsibiity to let Vera know via email, on the day of, or the day after that their baby is born. So that she can put them into her home visiting schedule.
- Folk in care that live outside the North Shore, travel to Vera’s office for all of their care.
- Office visits are a safe and quiet place for new parents to learn how to breastfeed and change baby outside of their homes. From Vera’s perspective having a clinic space allows her to provide services to more clients in one day.
- During visits both a mother (including those that identify as transgender or non-binary) and their baby will have a primarycare physical assessment.
- Support and education are also provided.
- Referral to specialist and/or community services also happens as needed.
- On discharge from care a client, their family doctor (if they have one) and their referring provider (if not a self-referral) receive a summary of midwifery postpartum service and a copy of their baby’s growth chart.
MIDWIFERY AFTER BIRTH POSTPARTUM CARE
Are you seeing a doctor for prenatal, labor and birth care? Do you know that you can arrange during your pregnancy to also have midwifery postpartum support after the birth of your baby?
Vera is excited to connect with folk during their pregnancies, to arrange a 3rd trimester baby feeding and postpartum preparation consultation and assessment visit. So that clients can express their needs and Vera can plan to be a primary care support to them, after the birth of their baby, who can assist them with their postpartum recovery, baby feeding and early parenting experience during the first 6-8 weeks after birth.
Pregnant folk interested in midwifery postpartum services that live in North Vancouver or close by can message Vera via her contact page below, or fill in an intake form. Once received, Vera will connect with interested folk to arrange a consultation and assessment appointment toward the end of their pregnancy between 35 and 37 weeks that focuses on their recovering body, adjusting to parenthood, as well as feeding and caring for their newborn baby. Her postpartum service begins in a client’s home 1-2 days after they have been discharged home with their newborn, or in the case of twins, with their babies. Vera also provides services to parents of multiples.
Enrolling into Vera’s practice during your pregnancy, ensures a spot in her service and a seamless transfer of care after the birth of your baby.
While enrolling folk into her practice during their pregnancies is Vera’s preferred intake method. Postpartum folk can refer themselves in the first few days after birth for a phase of midwifery care, beginning in the first week postpartum and ending 6-8 weeks after birth. If Vera has capacity, she will be pleased to take folk into her services.
Now that there is are MSP billing mechanisms for midwifery consultation and assessment visits. Vera is pleased to accept these referrals too, providing that she has capacity.
Nurses, midwives and doctors can refer postpartum folk after birth, either for a phase o f care, or for consultation and assessment visits to assist with lactation.
There are benefits to midwifery postpartum services:
“Signing up for postpartum aftercare with Vera was the single best decision we made to help us transition to life with a new baby. Her approach to care is calm, compassionate, judgment-free and evidence-based. Not only was she an incredibly positive and comforting presence in the home, but she was very encouraging and empowered us to step into our new role as parents with confidence.” – Briony
“As first time parents it’s easy to be overwhelmed, but Vera was there every step of the way to make sure we were on track. She gracefully answered all our rookie questions, and provided caring, personal, and expert advice on how to navigate our new life with a newborn. Her hands-on, in-home approach gave us countless practical tools and magical tips.” – David