Prenatal care at Siskiyou Women's Health Care is comprehensive. Time is provided at each visit for education and discussion around the many screening practices currently in use during pregnancy. Physical markers of health and wellbeing in pregnancy are gathered at each visit. As a certified nurse midwife, Linda Lieberman is highly skilled at normal obstetrical care and knows when to refer women to practitioners in the community for additional screening and treatment, if needed.

Routine Prenatal Care

Upon entry to care, the initial visit is usually about two and a half hours. Linda takes a full history and does a complete physical exam to determine a woman's health status for a homebirth experience. Linda will obtain some of the history during a telephone interview, if a client prefers. Prenatal visits after the initial exam are usually about 1-2 hours, and are scheduled to take into account each woman's needs, varying from 7-14 visits depending on when a woman enters her care in pregnancy.

Linda also provides care to women who decide late in pregnancy to have a homebirth, and who have had prenatal care by other qualified practitioners. Women simply transfer their current records to Siskiyou Women's Health Care and proceed with new plans for birth at home with Linda and a team of her assistants.