Services
Fertility, Home Birth Care, Service Area and Other Services
Mandala Midwifery Care offers a diversity of services and is proud to serve individuals and families in the 7 county metro area and beyond. Janine is a traditional midwife who offers prenatal care, home birth, water birth, vbac, postpartum care for the birthing parent and baby, and fertility and family building care.
Fertility Services
- Fertility counseling and education for LGBTQ families and Single Moms By Choice.
- Most people start with our Fertility Consultation. This is an 1 1/2 hour long visit where we cover: cycle basics (analysis of your cycle if you’ve been tracking), fertility nutrition, alternative care providers that can boost fertility, insemination logistics for both ICIs and IUIs, donor options and considerations, referral to fertility and insemination providers metro-wide, and fertility testing you may want to consider.
- Insemination and Family Building classes offered locally throughout the year.
- Cycle monitoring and fertility testing.
- We offer baseline fertility tests and ultrasound imaging, if applicable and can refer you to providers that can do more detailed fertility testing, if applicable. Mandala Midwifery Care only sees those people that are healthy and have a normal reproductive health history. We can help you determine if our care is right for you or if you need a referral to a medical care provider specializing in fertility care.
- Ongoing guidance during your cycle is standard for those that sign up for insemination services with Mandala Midwifery Care.
- Insemination services (ICI and IUI) done in our space or yours, using your cyrobank donor.
- An important part of insemination services with Mandala Midwifery Care is the fertile sign tracking that we help every insemination client with throughout the month. We help you interpret all those crazy signs and come to a good decision on your most fertile time!
- We take referrals seriously! If at any point we feel you could use a higher level of fertility care to improve your chances of insemination or speed the process along we will connect you with the local providers you need.
Home Birth Care
- Comprehensive prenatal care individually tailored to your and your baby’s needs.
- Office and home visits possible!
- We follow the standard prenatal visit schedule but are flexible based on your and your baby’s wants and needs. Visits tend to run an hour – not the OB average of 7 minutes! Safe home birth care begins with individualized prenatal visits that cover all the standard checks and testing but we also get to know the whole person and their little one.
- Complete home birth services
- Water birth is common among Mandala Midwifery Care clients but we help catch your baby wherever you are most comfortable. Borrow our free tub or use your own!
- We regularly check up on your and your baby’s wellbeing and give you the time and space to birth your baby gently and with love. We bring all the appropriate safety equipment, herbs and medications, just in case.
- Keep in mind you are signing on for care with us for the duration of your pregnancy, birth and postpartum as long as you and your baby stay healthy and low-risk. If either of you need a higher level of care, we help you navigate seeing the providers that are best for you and your baby. For the small percentage of our clients needing a hospital delivery we work hard to make that transition as streamlined as possible for you as we hand off your care to hospital based providers.
- Postpartum and newborn care through 6 weeks
- We believe the safest transition for you and your baby comes with attentive postpartum care by your midwife. We visit you three times in your baby’s first week (more if you are struggling) and then 3 more times before 6 weeks postpartum.
- We offer attentive breastfeeding/chestfeeding support and refer to Lactation Consultants when appropriate.
- Alternative care provider referral, where beneficial
Service Range
For home births and home insemination services, Janine travels up to an hour away so if you are just outside the cities (Northfield, Waconia, western Wisconsin, etc.) she is happy to chat about serving you.
Other services
Check out Mandala Midwifery Care’s collaboration for LGBTQIA2s folks : www.queerbirthproject.com. 