Birth Song Midwifery
Maria Chowdhury LM, CPM, LMT
134 Hartman Ave.
Fayetteville, AR 72701
(479) 718-0841
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About Birth Song
Birth Song Midwifery is a homebirth midwifery practice serving Northwest Arkansas. My goal is to provide professional maternity care to families who are looking for a natural birth without unnecessary obstetrical interventions.
Home birth is a sensible option for today's family. The Midwives Model of Care provides women and their families a normal healthy birth experience. Modern midwives bridge age old midwifery with the contemperary evidence based midwifery. Our clients make informed decisions for their families and take a proactive role in their healthcare.
Midwives promote wellness through education, compassion and the fundamental belief that women's bodies are exquisitely designed to give birth. Pregnancy is a normal, healthy, physiological function that does not need unnecessary intervention to have a positive outcome.
Benefits of Home Birth
Midifery Care
Free One Hour Consultations
Prenatal Care
Labor and Postpartum care
Birth Song provides a gentle, safe, home birth experience with appropriate fetal and maternal monitoring.
As a guardian of birth, I help you have the experience you want, with dependable professional assistance throughout labor and birth, giving physical and emotional support.
Using water in labor is a comfortable way to help ease its intensity.
Women who have experienced water birth report a deepened sense of relaxation as well as heightend sense of satisfaction with their birth process.
Water birth is an option that many women are glad to have available in their homes to utlize while laboring or for giving birth.
Water birth pool kits available for rent from Birth Song.
Thorough newborn exam without any mother baby separation.
The 24 hour, 1 week and 2 week visits are in your home. The 6-week visit is the last office visit.
Newborn Metabolic Screening Test is available.
The Birth Certificate and social security number are filed by the midwife.
Natural Childbirth classes
Natural childbirth requires preparation and planning. In order to feel completely prepared for the birth many couples take this 5-week series’ of natural childbirth education. The series focuses on birth plans, normal labor and birth, complications, the normal newborn, the postpartum period, parenting decisions and relaxation techniques.
*All first time home birth families are required to take these classes, and they are included in the birth fee.
*Many couples choosing a hospital birth attend these classes to help them feel confident they can birth naturaly even in the hospital setting.
The benefits of nursing are almost innumerable, The tremendous impact of nursing support during difficult times leaves lasting results and secures a healthy milk supply. As an advocate, and consultant, I am dedicated to helping women establish a healthy breast-feeding relationship with their newborn.
Nursing support
Massage Therapy
The healing power of touch is often forgotten. Midwives and massage therapists hold a healing presence because they believe in you, your body's own ability to heal it self, and its ability to birth. By including massage with prenatal care, you the client, are making a wonderful commitment to yourself, your unborn child, and family as a whole. Regular massage sessions along with adequate nutrition may be the best priced health insurance policy available.
During pregnancy progesterone influences the body to change tremendously, resulting in a number of normal yet uncomfortable conditions. Massage helps relieve many of these complaints through the positive physiological effects of soft tissue manipulations. Massage may help to calm stress, promote deep relaxation, elicit body awareness and prepare the muscles for childbirth.
There are specific massage techniques that are capable of helping to relieve uncomfortable conditions such as: low back pain, sciatic pain, leg cramps, edema of hand and feet, headaches, neck and shoulder pain, as well as insomnia. Massage is so helpful to all of the above conditions because it involves and manipulates the soft tissue, i.e., the muscles, tendons, and ligaments. By stretching and rubbing, massage essentially brings fresh new oxygen rich, nutrient rich blood to the areas that were tense and stagnant, and carries away built up toxins. Massage may also improve joint flexibility, muscle pliability, and calm nervous irritability.
Massage, integraded with herbal steam baths, is a valuable aid in swift recovery from the hard work of pregnancy and childbirth on both physical and emotional levels. By receiving postpartum massage the mother gets 'put back together again' so she can feel whole, and be better able to give of herself completely to the needs of her family.
pregnancy massage
Postpartum massage
a little about myself and my training
I am a mother, a wife, and a midwife. I have lived in Fayetteville, Arkansas since autumn of 2000 and was born and raised in northern California.
I graduated from Arkansas Midwives School and Services, a nationally accredited midwifery school in 2003, and hold two licenses to practice midwifery. As a Licensed Midwife (LM), I hold a state license that is issued by the Arkansas Department of Health. As a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) I hold both a national and international license issued by The North American Registry of Midwives (NARM).
Massage Therapy is a vital part of my midwifery care. I receive great joy from the integration of bodywork and midwifery. I graduated from Jean Millers School of Massage Technology in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1996.
I see myself as serving women and their families during one of the most pivotal moments in their lives. My job is medical but so much more. Prenatals are for monitoring well-being, but also for listening to clients. I strive to educate and empower women so they have the confidence to birth the way they want. At births, safety comes first, and proper monitoring instills a sense of calm, reassurance, and peace. Birth is a physical, emotional, and spiritual experience for everyone involved.
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Map to the Office
From I-540, take the Farmington/Highway 62 exit, and turn east on Martin Luther King Blvd toward the University of Arkansas. Continue east until you arrive at the intersection of Martin Luther King Blvd. and Razorback Rd. Turn left on Razorback Rd. and head north until arriving at Nettleship St., on the left. Turn left, and continue forward until you arrive at the corner of Nettleship St. and Hartman Ave. Turn right, and the Birth Song office is the red cottage closest to the corner at
134 Hartman Ave. Welcome!
Links
NWA Birth Network
Citizens for Midwifery
Midwifery Today
Childbirth.org
Waterbirth international
Made in Water
La Leche League
International Cesarean Awareness Network
In His Hands Homebirth Supply
Terra Tots
NWA Natural Health
