If you are looking for a place to help empower you to have an amazing natural birth, if you are looking for a gentle and safe hospital birth, if you are looking for a different experience than your first birth... then this is the place for you. More importantly, if you are looking for a community to laugh and cry with as you start/continue your journey through motherhood then this is definitely the place for you!
I had my first baby at Babymoon Inn. Even though I transferred to Babymoon later (28 weeks) and was working at the time I was able to attend the Ready Set Series that is included in their birth package, get all of the reading material from the Facing your Fears classes I missed and was able to get my prenatal massage. The birth classes were so important to the success of my delivery and breastfeeding. My midwives were incredibly attentive! Gone were the short 5 minutes OB appointments where my doctor was too busy to give me her full attention. These appointments allowed me to address any and all of my concerns, to map out my birth plan and to release me from any fear I once had about labor. The administrative staff insured that I met with every midwife before the big day and that I had an appointment in the birthing house (with everyone that I wanted at my birth) to prepare. Every time I visited that offices everyone was friendly and accommodating. I was able to obtain a gap exception from my insurance (UHC).
When the big day came I had amazing support from my birth team, and labored how I needed to to gently deliver my sweet baby at the birthing house. I had an hour of skin to skin with my baby before I had to transfer to St. Joes from complications that would have occurred no matter where I birthed. I know that now that Babymoon's care extends to St. Joes, but at my birth it did not. However, my midwife stayed with me my entire transfer ensuring that I was in the right hands at the hospital and that I felt supported. When it was time I was able to return to Babymoon for my followup appointment and 2 week postpartum party. I connected with like-minded Moms at the Cuddlers group on a weekly basis where I received all the support I needed to gain confidence in all the newness that a newborn brings.
Babymoon has been an integral part of my past year and a half and I wouldn't have been able to have the delivery I wanted and the community I have now without their support. I will continue to receive my women's health checks at Babymoon and seek out their care for any future babies I may have.