Services

 

When you choose Kari as your provider, you are choosing a provider that puts the patient at the center of care.

 

Pregnancy and Birth.

 

Kari provides complete pregnancy care, from pre-conception counseling, through the full postpartum period. What you want for your care experience matters. Kari will work with you to provide the personalized pregnancy, birth, and postpartum care you deserve. You will see the same midwife for each visit - developing a trusting relationship along the way.

  • As a midwife, Kari’s goal is to promote physiologic labor, birth and postpartum care. This means, in the absence of complications, and while respecting the desires and preferences of the client, she will strive to promote: spontaneous labor onset, laboring in one’s own time and speed without intervention to rush the process, freedom of movement and positioning in laboring, spontaneous self-directed pushing, birthing in the position best for the laboring person, immediate skin to skin contact with the newborn, delaying cord cutting until the cord is done pulsating, breastfeeding within the first hour of birth, and continuous rooming in with baby.

  • The following tools are available to you during your labor and birth…

    • Warm water via immersion in a labor tub or shower

    • Intermittent monitoring

    • Mobile monitoring if continuous monitoring is necessary

    • Birthing ball

    • Peanut ball for labor positioning

    • Birthing stool

    • Squat ball

    • Glow candles

    • Aromatherapy with essential oil diffuser

  • Kari is there to help keep space to allow you to labor and birth the way you want. Whether you want a totally intervention free birth, or desire a planned induction and an epidural, or anything in between, she is there for you and will work to help honor your wishes while closely monitoring your and baby’s safety.

  • The large majority of Kari’s patients see only her and her partner midwives for their full care throughout pregnancy and birth as well as gynecological care. However, there are certain higher-risk cases or situations requiring surgical intervention in which we utilize the expertise of Kari’s collaborating OBGYN physician, Dr. Jeffrey Mormol. Whether your safest birth is via C-Section or you have an abnormal pap that requires further intervention, Dr. Mormol will provide skilled and compassionate care to any of Kari’s clients requiring an MD’s attention.

 Reach out to Kari directly
and see if she is a good fit…

Well Woman Screening

 

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends a well woman exam every year. During this visit, Kari will review your health history, medications, current health status and focus on preventative screenings.  She will order appropriate screenings such as age-based blood work, mammograms, pap tests, colonoscopies, etc. Kari is happy to see women from the onset of menses all the way through postmenopausal years.

  • You and Kari will also review any health concerns you may have. Well woman care is provided through a whole-person lens. You will have a sixty minute appointment if it’s your first visit or 30 minutes for returning clients.  This allows plenty of time to review your health addressing all concerns or questions.

  • Appropriate referrals to physical therapy, counseling, or medical specialists will be made as needed.

 Reach out to Kari directly
and see if she is a good fit…

GYN Concerns

 

Do you have a new itch?

Change in discharge?  

New discomfort?

Urinary leaking?  

Want a new birth control method? 

 

Whatever it is, come on in and talk with Kari about it.  

 

After a thorough discussion of your concerns, Kari will do any appropriate examinations and testing.  You will leave the appointment knowing you were fully heard, and your concerns were addressed. Also, you and Kari will have a clear follow up plan and have access to her for any follow up questions or concerns.