Home   News   What we offer you   Quotes   Facts & Figures   Links   Contact Us	Our Practice What we offer you A midwifery practice established in 1991, offering support with active birth, pool birth and home birth A guarantee that your most of your midwifery care with us will be given by your primary midwife, with backup from one, or at most two other midwives Antenatal care from booking, in your own home at your convenience. Each visit will last around 45 minutes, and will include time to discuss your plans for labour, birth and parenting Postnatal care for up to 28 days following delivery Liaison with local hospitals and other health care professionals as needed Good contacts with alternative practitioners Experience in home birth with first time mothers, vaginal birth following caesarean and other such common situations We support the woman's choice for feeding her baby. More than 90% of the women we look after breastfeed successfully for as long as they want to Up to date practice: we keep up with current research evidence and maintain in-service training on an annual basis. Support and advocacy after hospital transfer during labour - we will stay with you in hospital until the baby is born. At one of our local hospitals we can continue to give you midwifery care. Please note: We do not book women for planned hospital births. For more information or to find out if we have room in our schedule please contact us. Thames Valley Independent Midwives covers a large area of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and Surrey. We do not accept clients in central London but other than that we are willing to travel up to 30-40 minutes from our homes in High Wycombe and Windsor. Although we came to midwifery from very different starting points, both of us firmly believe that normal pregnancy, labour and birth need not be medicalised, and benefit from being family-centred. The practice was started by Elaine in 1990, and has been gradually building since that time. The main focus of our practice is on supporting women giving birth at home in their own familiar surroundings, where they are likely to feel most confident and relaxed. We only take women into hospital if there is a complication with a planned home birth. In addition to our individual visits we now run a regular programme of home birth support meetings, talks and presentations on a variety of relevant issues. Antenatal and postnatal women and their babies attend these sessions, which are open for anyone to attend, whether a client of ours or not.