Great Expectations Midwifery Care
Your Homebirth Midwife for Safe, Gentle, Comprehensive Care
Your Homebirth Midwife for Safe, Gentle, Comprehensive Care
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Great Expectations Midwifery Care is home to Allyson Butler, M.Ed, CPM, a midwife serving expectant families throughout Clark County, including Las Vegas, Boulder City, Henderson, North Las Vegas, and surrounding areas. Allyson became a midwife in 2009 in order to provide access to comprehensive, research-based, affordable, compassionate, and safe care for women desiring a natural pregnancy and birth.
Allyson strives to ensure her midwifery care is educational, thorough, sensitive, inclusive of all family members and support people, and a positive experience for every family. Research has shown homebirth with a trained midwife to be a safe, healthy, satisfying option for low risk women and their babies. Allyson tailors her midwifery care to meet the individual needs of every mother.
Clients choose Allyson as their midwife because they are:
- looking for a more holistic approach to pregnancy, birth, and parenting
- wanting to fill their minds with knowledge and learn how to utilize their innate intuition as parents
- desiring to avoid feeling like a "patient"
- ready to make informed decisions as active participants in their own health care
- planning an ecstatic, happy, and healthy pregnancy
- looking for a care provider who will know their name and "chart" without having to look
- seeking a care provider who blends the roles of clinician, support person, teacher, friend, mentor, lifeguard, and researcher
- wanting to feel empowered by their pregnancy and birth experiences.
The Midwifery Model of Care is the
guiding principle for women under Allyson's care who are planning a
homebirth throughout their pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experience,
and also for women coming in for annual exams and well woman care.
"The Midwives Model of Care is based on the fact that pregnancy and birth are normal life processes.
The Midwives Model of Care includes:
- Monitoring the physical, psychological, and social well-being of the mother throughout the childbearing cycle
- Providing the mother with individualized education, counseling, and prenatal care, continuous hands-on assistance during labor and delivery, and postpartum support
- Minimizing technological interventions
- Identifying and referring women who require obstetrical attention
The application of this woman-centered model of care has been proven to reduce the incidence of birth injury, trauma, and cesarean section. Copyright (c) 1996-2008, Midwifery Task Force, Inc., All Rights Reserved."
