Sage-Femme Midwifery
Sage-Femme Midwifery is an independent midwifery practice offering home birth midwifery care.
As a first time mother I was excited but also very nervous when I found out I was pregnant. I wanted to be sure I found the right health care provider that I felt comfortable talking to, someone I could trust and didn't make me feel like I was just a next in line patient. I wanted my birthing experience to be as natural as it could be with top professional care. I searched long and prayed hard. I discovered Sage-femme and met with Kelly. I knew right away that this was the place for me. Kelly is a professional who loves there job, she works very hard and does it all full heartedly. She is admirable to say the least. My experience from the beginning of pregnancy to the end was exactly how I wanted it. Sage-femme provided everything I needed. They provided experienced professional care that I could trust, resources to help guide me through it all and the personal care that was accessable when I had questions or worry. Truly Kelly and her team at Sage-femme has been a God send for me and my family. I have so much gratitude and appreciation for them. I am looking forward to continuing using there care when growing my family.
Thank you again Sage-femme family.
God Bless.
I decided to go with Kelly after reading the reviews here and can only echo those who have come before me. I had my 5th baby with Kelly and am so pleased with the level of care I received. She truly listens to you and lets you direct all of your care but is also so intuitive and gently guides you in the right direction. I had some other health issues going on while pregnant and she was a great help with that during and after pregnancy as well. Instead of the usual goodbye after the baby is born, she made sure to schedule appointments to check on how I was doing even months after! She truly cares about her patients. A true privilege to have her walk alongside you.
I am forever grateful to Kelly and the Sage-Femme team for providing an amazing pregnancy and birth experience. Kelly empowered me with tools(classes with other professionals) and information(a library of books and other resources) and always encouraged me to make my own informed decisions. I came to her hoping to get pregnant but was having post- COVID19 vaccination menstrual cycle irregularity and she was willing to provide gyno care and help get me regular so that I could get pregnant. She also was willing to take me on as a 35 year old first time pregnancy and treat me with respect and instill confidence in me when other providers rudely called me "geriatric" and immediately recommended induction at 37 weeks and other interventions just because of my age. When, during labor, I experienced too much blood loss, she, in her 30+ years of experience recognized placental abruption and had me transferred for an emergency C-section that was necessary and life-saving. The fact that she knew I really wanted to avoid a hospital experience but made the call when it was needed proves to me that my choice to have a home birth with her was safe and wise. She and her team continued care for me in the hospital and made sure that I was on the road to recovery with adequate nutrition and even brought me hydration supplements so that I could have the desperately needed electrolytes that I couldn't get through hospital offered "juice" which was just sugar. I am so grateful for the blessing of a private midwife service and hope that more and more women can have this empowering experience, and that more and more midwives are able to come available in the future. I had to drive 3 hours to get to Sage Femme because private midwives are few and far between... and I was so thankful that she even had a place I could give birth at "home". Thank you SAGE-FEMME MIDWIFERY!
The Sage-Femme Midwifery team exceeded all my expectations. Although it was my first pregnancy, they empowered me with education and options every step of the way and made me feel like the expert of my own body. They went out of their way to include my husband in the process, even teaching him to identify baby’s position and find the heartbeat. As someone who avoids asking for help, I felt comfortable sharing my concerns, big and small, with Kelly and confident I could reach her any time I needed support. In week 37, when my otherwise healthy pregnancy took a scary sudden turn, Kelly and staff had the expertise and humility to recognize I needed to go to the hospital. Suffice it to say, I didn’t get the home birth experience I was hoping for, but Abigail, Rachel, and Kelly were as involved as ever, coaching and advocating for me loyally throughout my hospital stay. I’m grateful the hospital was there when I needed it to help deliver my sweet baby boy safely, but my experience there reinforced the many reasons I had chosen a home birth with Sage-Femme in the first place. For care providers you can trust to have your back in the most sacred mission of your life, please look no further than Sage-Femme Midwifery.
I found Sage-Femme when I was already into my third trimester and was having a horrible experience with the standard OBGYN/hospital rout. I was incredibly stressed and dreading the actual birth and worried my fiancé wouldn’t even be allowed to stay with me for the birth if either of us contracted COVID
My fiancé was skeptical of a home birth as he was worried about complication (I was told I would be lucky to make it to her due date and was close to having preclampsia). After our first meeting with Kristen all our fears were put to ease. Sage-Femme was amazingly supportive and made the whole experience less “scary” and more like the natural process that it is. Kristen was so amazingly respectful and explained every process and every rout we could take and would always let me know that decisions were in my hands. She included our 5 year old son in the visits too, letting him listen to his sister’s heartbeat and help take our vitals. I was so thankful to her for including him in the process.
The birth itself was a long and grueling but I can honestly say there’s no one I would have rather had helping me through it. To be able to hold my newborn in my arms with my fiancé next to me, in our own home was incredible. The love and care the incredible women at Sage-Femme showed me pre, during and post labor was just amazing. They even came back and checked on me for the next couple weeks so I didn’t have to leave my home and our new little family could bond
I cannot recommend them enough and would give them more stars if I could. My only wish is they did regular health care as well as I’ve never felt more comfortable or secure with medical professionals as I have with these wonderful women ❤️