There's something special about welcoming your baby into the place where you feel most comfortable... home.

At Living Waters Midwifery, we provide evidence-based home birth care for healthy, low-risk pregnancies throughout the Tampa Bay area. Our goal is to combine the safety of professional midwifery care with the comfort, familiarity, and peace of giving birth in your own environment.

Home birth is about more than where your baby is born. It's about receiving personalized care, building a trusting relationship with your midwife, and having the time and support to make informed decisions throughout your pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journey.

Our approach also blends evidence-based midwifery care with integrative and functional medicine principles. Throughout pregnancy, we look beyond routine prenatal assessments to support your health as a whole, including nutrition, movement, sleep, stress, supplementation, metabolic health, and overall wellness.

Signature Home Birth Package

Our Signature Home Birth Package provides comprehensive midwifery care from your first prenatal visit through your postpartum recovery.

Your package includes:

• Comprehensive prenatal care with home visits throughout your pregnancy

• Ongoing assessment of maternal health and your baby’s growth and well-being

• Routine prenatal laboratory collection, coordination, review, and clinical follow-up*

• Ordering and review of ultrasounds and other imaging when indicated

• Individualized nutrition, supplementation, movement, sleep, and wellness guidance

• Integrative and functional approaches to common pregnancy concerns when appropriate

• Ongoing education, birth preparation, and shared decision-making

• On-call availability beginning at 37 weeks until your baby is born

• An experienced midwifery birth team for labor and birth

• Continuous midwifery care during labor and birth in your home

• Birth supplies, emergency equipment, and standard medications routinely carried for home birth

• Birth pool use for families desiring a water birth

• Immediate postpartum care for you and your baby

• Comprehensive newborn assessment, including weight, measurements, and routine newborn evaluation

• Newborn screening collection and coordination, hearing screen referral, and congenital heart disease screening

• Breastfeeding support and assistance with the first feeding

• Two postpartum home visits to support maternal recovery, newborn growth, and feeding

• Direct access to your midwifery team for pregnancy and postpartum questions and concerns

*Third-party laboratory, imaging, genetic screening, specialty testing, hospital, and outside-provider fees are not included and may be billed separately by the performing provider or facility.

Is Home Birth Right for You?

Home birth is an option for many healthy, low-risk pregnancies. Throughout your care, we carefully monitor both you and your baby, consider your individual health history, and continually assess whether home birth remains an appropriate choice for your pregnancy.

If circumstances change, we’ll talk through your options and coordinate care with local hospitals, physicians, and specialists when needed. Your safety and your baby’s well-being are always at the center of our care.

More Than a Birth

One of the most meaningful parts of midwifery care is that our relationship doesn’t begin when labor does.

We spend months getting to know you and your family through unrushed prenatal visits, answering questions, preparing for birth, supporting your wellness, and building trust. By the time your baby arrives, you know the team caring for you, and we know you, your family, and what matters to you.

That relationship continues after birth through in-home postpartum and newborn care, breastfeeding support, recovery guidance, and the transition into life with your newest family member.

Let's Talk About Your Birth

Choosing your birth team is one of the most important decisions you’ll make during pregnancy.

Whether you’re just beginning to explore home birth or already know it’s what you want, our complimentary phone consultation gives us an opportunity to talk about your pregnancy, answer your questions, review current services and fees, and determine whether Living Waters Midwifery is the right fit for your family.

Schedule your free phone consultation today: