It’s been four years since I’ve entered a blog post?! That’s how busy I’ve been! We are in the middle of (or hopefully emerging from) COVID-19 lockdowns and distancing. We are functioning 90% of normal with some clients or incoming consultations continuing to choose TeleHealth visits or video calls. We just delivered our first client defection from a hospital birth plan due to COVID-19 policies and have another due.

We’ve moved into a bright and larger new space in Sugarhouse which is filling my soul every day I go to the office.

Student midwife Stephanie Tyrell has been attending births and many clinic days for the last year. She has been an incredible asset to the practice. She is soon moving into her Primary or Phase 3 advanced student phase of her journey.

We have tripled our client load from a year ago which we are equipped well for. We have excellent collaborating midwives for times when we have a couple women due close to each other. I currently have two clients in care who are having their third pregnancy / birth with me. Thank you for following me from other practices into my own the last several years!

We have just taken in our first 2021 baby. Some 2020 periods are full. We have babies due every month except October at the moment. Take a trip or wait for late to care calls?

We are the only clinical site in Salt Lake offering Sneak Peek gender testing with a blood draw as early as 8 weeks pregnant! Send your friends! Do not need to be a birth client to access this. $149. https://sneakpeektest.com/early-clinical-baby-gender-blood-test/

I am excited about the practice and the clients on board for the second half of 2020! Despite the COVID-19 mess, it has been a good year for us sofar.

It’s been a busy 2016! In addition to my Salt Lake City midwifery practice, I have been a provider at Birthwise Maternity Care in Layton, UT since March of this year.  In the practice there are three CPMs and an RN and between us we are handling between 60-90 clients a year as well as some GYN care.  In this busy practice I am known to clients and providers as “Whitley” as there is another midwife named Heather and we wanted to keep things clear for people.

Birth wise offers birth center and home birth services.  I’ve enjoyed working with the women and clients there very much and have enjoyed working around other midwives to learn how they do things.  Midwifery, like life, is one of those things that you realize the more experience and knowledge you obtain, the less you actually know.  Humility and willingness to learn from one another is a keystone to success and progression in this profession that should last one’s entire career.  The busier we are, the more we learn how to work with a variety of personalities and clinical situations.  I’ve enjoyed it.  It is one of the more medically-minded midwifery care services I have worked in and I’m grateful to incorporate current evidence-based clinical care into my own practice.  I love the electronic charting and plan to move to this in my own practice very soon. I currently work a full clinic day in Layton on Mondays and take call much of the week.

 

I have maintained my own small midwifery practice in Salt Lake City, opening a cute office in Sugarhouse inside the Midwives College of Utah office located in Sugar House.  Here I conduct prenatal and postpartum visits.

Please call 801-556-1483 for a free consultation or to discuss all the wonderful pregnancy and birth options we have in Salt Lake!