Services / Midwifery

Benefits of Home Birth

Home Birth Benefits and Philosophy

Benefits
  • Statistically as safe or safer than hospital birth
  • Positive and pleasant experience
  • Comfort, security and familiarity in your own home
  • One-to-one Midwife and/or Doula support
  • Avoidance of sedation drugs... all natural!
  • Freedom to walk around and be comfortable in surroundings of your choice
  • Easier to relax, let go and surrender at home
  • Freedom to choose your place and position of birth
  • Complication rates are lower than hospital births
  • Labor is usually shorter than in a hospital
  • Less blood loss
  • No unnecessary inducement
  • Relaxed and peaceful
  • Water-birth is an option
  • Not on your back or hooked up to machines
  • Problems in labor usually develop slowly, allowing enough time to be transferred (if needed)
  • Midwives carry all necessary equipment (Similar to a LDR or birth center)
  • Less likely to need a caesarean section

Philosophy
  • Birth is a natural process
  • Women have given birth 'naturally' for centuries without interventions
  • Take control of your experience 
  • Taking responsibility by making informed choices
  • Healthier options for mother and baby
  • Lower-cost that hospital birth
  • Child birth should be treated a celebration, not a disease
  • Miraculous, in-the-moment and lower stress on both mother and baby
  • Drugs can alter the natural healthy feedback mechanisms and are not good for the child
  • Medical management of pregnancy and birth should be limited

Midwifery

A midwife is a trained professional with special expertise in supporting women in maintaining a healthy pregnancy, offering expert individualized care, education, counseling and support to a woman and her newborn throughout the childbearing cycle. Celesta has been providing holistic well woman, maternity and baby care since 1987. 

Women's Health

Recognizing the intimate unity of the mind with the body's immune, endocrine, and nervous systems, the alternative and complementary medical approach to women's health is to treat these systems as one, facilitating the body's innate ability to heal itself and to restore intrinsic cycles through noninvasive, natural therapies for symptoms and diseases. 

Lactation Counseling

Breastfeeding doesn't always come "naturally" and that's where lactation counseling comes in. We provide new moms with the information and help they need to make breastfeeding a happy and successful experience for both mother and child.  May include nursing instruction during childbirth classes; and Assessment and counseling during your hospital stay.

Hydro-Colon Therapy

Colon hydrotherapy, colon irrigation, high colonic and colonics all refer to the same process. It's a powerful and effective mean of cleansing and detoxifying your digestive system. Colon hydro-therapy is a safe and gentle infusion of water into the colon via the rectum. No chemicals or drugs are involved. The entire therapy is both relaxing and effective.