Professional Midwifery Care in Washington, DC, and Montgomery County, Maryland
Your Pregnancy, Your Birth, Your Way
We specialize in providing personalized pregnancy, labor and birth, and postpartum care. We care for healthy clients with low-risk pregnancies of all ages in Washington, DC and surrounding Maryland counties. Our midwives provide holistic, evidence-based, respectful and safe care during hour-long appointments and personalized care for you and your baby. Read on - we are excited to work with you to have the pregnancy, birth and postpartum experience that you deserve.
Envision Your Birth
Curious what home birth care looks like in practice? Imagine laboring in your home, in your bedroom, your bathroom, your kitchen, eating your food, listening to your music… having everything your way. Imagine not having to get dressed, or pack a bag, or get in the car…. not having to walk through the hospital or fill out paper work or get an IV, all while you’re contracting. Imagine your midwives arriving at your door, quietly slipping in and meeting you where you are. This is home birth with Rock Creek Midwifery.
Visit our photo gallery to see Rachel and Brittany in action, giving compassionate, caring prenatal, labor and birth care…. and some pretty cute babies.
The Midwifery Difference:
Client-Centered Care
Shared Decision Making
We discuss all your options with you, including risks, benefits and alternatives so you can decide what’s best for you, your family and your baby.
Evidence Based
Our care is informed by the latest research, known best practice as well as the age-old wisdom of midwifery.
Appropriate Interventions
We use technology appropriately to get the clinical information we need, yet sparingly so as not to intervene unnecessarily with your pregnancy or birth process.
Continuity of Care
We value relationship building and trust as a key part of our care model. You will see two midwives throughout your pregnancy, and at least one, if not both of those midwives, will be at your birth.
Holistic
We care for and nurture all of you – not the just the baby in your belly. Hour-long appointments allow us to care for both your physical and emotional wellbeing.
Respectful
Our midwives are consciously respectful of all people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, gender or sexual identity and cultural traditions. We respect your preferences, choices, and decisions. Consent is paramount in our care. We ask before we touch and inform you what we are going to do and why.
Meet the Midwives
Rachel and Brittany - experts in natural child birth
Our Certified Professional Midwives are experts in natural childbirth who specialize in out-of-hospital labor and birth care. Over the course of your pregnancy care hour-long appointments focus on building trust, educating and empowering you to make the decisions that are right for and your family, and preparing you for birth and the new addition to your family. Throughout labor and birth we guide and support your natural process while quietly monitoring you and your baby to ensure everyone stays well and healthy, intervening only when needed. We are experts in the many variations of normal and expect the best, while preparing for the rare complications. Research shows that midwifery clients have much lower rates of episiotomy, induction, infection, caesarean birth and invasive procedures, which all equal excellent outcomes for you and your baby. Learn more about our midwives - Rachel & Brittany - here.
Services
Full-Course Homebirth Care
Our home birth package provides all pregnancy, labor and birth and three months of postpartum care in the comfort of your own home. You have telephone & text access to your midwives from the moment you start care. We are on call to come to your home for your birth from 37 weeks, and two midwives who you know and trust will help you birth in the comfort of your home. Dig into the details here.
Complementary Care
If you prefer to birth in the hospital but also want the personalized, compassionate care of a midwife throughout your pregnancy we offer co-care with your hospital provider including prenatal and in-home postpartum visits. Prenatally we will discuss your key decision points using evidence, focus on your emotional as well as your physical wellbeing, and planning your birth. Our postpartum care is more comprehensive postpartum care than a typical hospital practice offers (most only offer a single six-week appointment). We will see your four to five times in the postpartum period to monitor your healing and emotional well-being, and help you integrate your newest little one into the family.
Postpartum Care
In home postpartum care is the perfect complement to your hospital birth. We come to you for clinical checks on you and baby, breastfeeding / feeding support and to answer all your questions so you can rest, recuperate and get to know your baby rather than racing around to appointments. See here for more details.
SneakPeak Clinical Fetal DNA Sex Test
Boy or Girl? Find out with the SneakPeek Clinical Early Gender DNA Test
Have a trained midwife take a venous blood sample - eliminating any mistakes in the fetal sex test. Quick appointments as early as 6 weeks into pregnancy. Overnight results are emailed straight to you. See more details and research here.
Client Love for Our Midwives
A.T., Brooklyn, NY
“Working with Rachel will feel like a genuine partnership; it feels like having a best friend, who also happens to be a birth/gyn expert alongside you during pregnancy, labor and postpartum. I felt such a genuine investment in my wellness, and that of my baby, in a way that is so rare to come by. Truly grateful I got to bring my baby into the world this way!”
Joelle Novey, Silver Spring, MD
“In the preparation for birth and on the big day itself, Rachel was steadyingly calm, gentle, respectful, competent, and wise. Feeling I was in such good hands was an enormous blessing, which helped me trust myself as I entered the intensity of labor.”
Janis B
Brittany was an irreplaceable part of my birth team for the home birth of my second child! She helped us feel at ease in such a natural and easy way, her personality is just what any mother needs to feel confident and relaxed. Almost decided to fly back to Maryland for my due date month just so I could work with her again!