Home Birth Midwifery Care
Bringing your baby into the world in the comfort of your home with skilled, personalized support. All visits are with the midwife, personally.
Our Approach
Prenatal visits: Comprehensive, hour-long appointments that focus on informed choice, holistic well-being, and preparing for birth.
Home birth care: Attended by your midwife and a birth assistant who support your body’s natural process in a calm, respectful, and nurturing environment.
Postpartum visits: Extensive personalized follow-up care for the birthing parent and baby, including lactation support and newborn wellness.
Serving families in the Chicagoland area.
Our Approach to Birth
Home Birth with Birth Roots
Personalized Midwifery Care for a Confident, Empowered Birth at Home
Home birth is about trusting your body, feeling supported, and bringing your baby into the world in a familiar, peaceful space. At Birth Roots, we offer expert midwifery care to guide you through pregnancy, birth and postpartum with compassion, safety and respect.
Our care is tailored to you - because your birth should feel as powerful as you are.
Is Home Birth Right For You?
Home birth with a skilled midwife is a safe, empowering option for many people. It’s a great choice if you:
✔ Want to birth naturally, in your own space
✔ Are experiencing a healthy, low-risk pregnancy
✔ Value a relationship-based model of care with your midwife
✔ Want a birth experience with fewer interventions
Not sure? Let’s chat! We’re happy to answer your questions.
WHAT’S INCLUDED IN OUR HOME BIRTH MIDWIFERY CARE?
Our all inclusive package includes:
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Prenatal visits (always with the CNM!) at office in Oak Park or Warrenville from contract signing to birth at 37 weeks+
90-minute initial prenatal visit: Scheduled around 10-12 weeks of pregnancy; includes health history and physical exam, bedside ultrasound if needed, routine labs and NIPT if desired draw (billed separately), and optional ordering of dating/viability/confirmation ultrasound
60 minute routine prenatal visits: Following standard visit schedule (monthly until 28 weeks, then every 2 weeks until home visit at 36 weeks, then weekly in office, until birth). Telehealth visits offered as needed/appropriate. Labs drawn in office as needed.
36 week home visit: two-hour in home visit to bring birth supplies and review birth plan with the whole birth team!
Upon initiation of care: Midwife available 24/7 for client concerns during prenatal and postpartum care, by phone for urgent situations; via electronic health chart for non-urgent matters.
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Midwifery team (midwife and midwife assistant or apprentice) attendance of home birth and immediate postpartum care: attended at home from 37 weeks+
We provide all medical birth supplies, including birth tub and necessary tub supplies
Midwife team provides support during and after any hospital transfers as needed
Team typically stays 2-3 hours postpartum for uncomplicated births to ensure the client and baby are stable and support transition and lactation—longer as needed (and clean-up from birth!)
Package includes standard, routine care for baby: physical exam (weight, measurements, etc.) and support with newborn transition
Newborn medications available as add-on: oral or injection vitamin K; eye prophylaxis; hepatitis B vaccine
Completion of birth certificate form(s) and a cute footprint sheet!
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In-home visits for birthing parent and baby at 24-36 hours: Includes critical congenital heart defect (CCHD) screening; hearing screening; and newborn metabolic screening (PKU test)
In-home visit for client and baby at 4-6 days postpartum. Baby transitions to pediatric care after this visit
2-week postpartum visit: 60 minute telehealth visit for client
6-week postpartum visit: 60 minute office visit for client
Midwife available to support concerns related to birth and postpartum with additional visits as needed
Because birth is just the beginning—we’re here for your whole transition into parenthood.
Postpartum Care
FAQs
Is home birth safe?
Yes! Research shows that low-risk individuals choosing home birth have outcomes comparable to similar birthing people planning hospital births. Safety measures we use include:
✔ Offering evidence-based gestational diabetes screening
✔ (Gentle, non-intrusive) monitoring of baby and birthing parent in labor according to standard of care
✔ Team preparedness for birth complications, including bringing emergency supplies and medications.
✔ Training for emergency situations & planning for hospital transfer when necessary
✔ Extensive opportunities for education and development of client-centered, informed decision-making
We do not attend multiple births (twins/triplets) but can provide breech birth support with informed consent. We also support Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC) for eligible clients.
What areas do you serve for home birth and IUI?
We provide home birth care within 60 minutes of Oak Park, IL, including the greater Chicagoland area. For city births, we ask for assistance with securing parking so we can bring necessary equipment.
Who will be at my birth?
Your Birth Roots midwifery team typically includes:
✔ One licensed midwife (CNM) and an experienced midwife assistant (RN or student midwife)
✔ Your Birth Mentor or doula (if chosen) for additional support
✔ With permission, a midwifery student or second assistant may attend
✔ You are welcome to invite partners, children, family, or photographers—this is your birth experience.
What if more than one client is in labor at the same time?
We limit our client load and service area to reduce this possibility. If it happens, we may:
✔ Send one team member for an assessment while another attends a birth
✔ Call in qualified backup birth workers as needed
✔ Ensure at least one provider at your birth is familiar to you
We also plan vacations in advance to arrange appropriate backup care when needed.
“It was a true honor to work with Corinne. Throughout my journey, they were knowledgeable, warm, approachable, compassionate, patient, and light hearted. Corinne was extremely responsive and diligent with answering my questions without any judgement. It felt so refreshing and genuine to be in their care.”
Carly D.
“Corinne is extremely and scientifically informed AND holistic. My spouse and I were extremely well supported by Corinne's practice and I feel I got high quality medical treatment in a cozy environment.”
Rex C.
“Their warmth and calmness made me feel so confident and comfortable with having a home birth. Choosing Birth roots for my birth was the best decision I ever made.”
Samantha E.
2024 births
Our first year attending births: 28 births
Vaginal births
92%
VBAC
100%
Postpartum Transfer
0%
Home births
89%
Cesarean Births
7%
First Baby
21%
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