Overview
For many women, a nurse midwife is the perfect choice for their pregnancy or gynecological care. A nurse midwife is a registered nurse who receives extra training from an accredited midwifery program and becomes board certified by the American College of Nurse Midwives. Nurse midwives can provide a full range of primary health care services for women and families.
Services
For pregnancy care, services offered include the following:
- Pregnancy care and delivery
- Full information about tests
- Healthy lifestyle and nutrition coaching
- Personalized labor support
- Effective approaches to pain relief
- Attention to your birth plan
- Postpartum care
- Breast feeding assistance
Primary Care Services
For primary care, services offered include the following:
- Acute care
- Colds and allergies
- Cough
- Fever or flu
- Headache
- Sinusitis
- Skin rashes and infections
- Sprains and strains
- Throat soreness (rapid strep, and the like)
- Urinary tract screening and treatment of infections
- Family planning/birth control
- Health coaching
- Health-risk assessments
- Hormone replacement therapy
- Immunizations
- Menopause care
- Personalized counseling on healthy lifestyles
- Preconception counseling
- Preventive care
- Routine exams
- Annual pelvic and breast examinations
- Pre-marital exams
- Pap tests
- Other screening tests
- Screening & treatment for sexually transmitted infections
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