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Insurance

Congratulations!! You took a pregnancy test and it came out positive. Then you scheduled a consult and tour at our birth center. And while you visited us, we put together an estimate for your insurance coverage. Most people really don't understand how their insurance plans actually work. I mean, they understand that they have insurance but they often don't understand why they have to pay anything out of pocket or a how we come up with the estimate, so we thought we would help break this down for you.  But first: there are different ways people obtain insurance plans. Some employers include insurance plans are a benefit to working with their company. Employers will contract with different insurance companies and each employer might offer different plans to different employees, so just because you have Cigna, as an example, it doesn't mean all Cigna plans are the same. Also, some people purchase their own insurance plans directly from insurance companies or from the Marketpla

Newest Births

Please join us in welcoming the babies born at Heart 2 Heart in October. Congratulations to all of our new parents ! October 18, 2007: Baby girl Makayla Rae, born to Christin and Doug. Makayla weighed 8 pounds 10 ounces and is Christin and Doug's first baby. Christin was so wonderful and sweet in labor, and so excited to see her baby's beautiful face. October 16, 2007: Baby boy Jesse Biagio was born to Carrie and John and weighed in at 9 pounds 1 ounce. This is Carrie and John's 7th beautiful child and they are just incredible parents! October 15, 2007: We had two births today! It was a busy day but each lady had lovely births and there were no interuptions on our time with either lady. Baby girl Robyn Dale was born at 22:17 to Amanda and David. Amanda had taken the Hypnobirth Class, and I strongly believe her labor was so fast and "easy" because of her ability to relax so well. Amanda's baby was born in the posterior position (face up instead of down, and t

Hypnobirthing

We have had three groups of clients come through our birth center who have taken the Mongan Method Hypnobirthing Classes with Maggie McCarthy (one of our Birth Attendants, a Licensed Massage Therapist and a Certified Doula). Out of these three groups, there have been 12 clients that have come in laboring and have been admitted to the center at 8 or more centimeters! This includes several primips or first time moms! Out of these 12 ladies so far, 10 of them have come in and had their babies within 60-90 minutes and the thing that astounds me the most so far is that they all seem to hardly be "acting" like they are in labor!! I cannot tell you how impressed I am with the way these ladies are able to relax through these contractions. One of our last births, a young lady came in at 8 centimeters and within an hour gave birth to the most precious little (8 pound, 10 ounce) posterior baby. She only commented once or twice about pressure in her back as she was pushing her baby down

Welcome!

Welcome to Heart 2 Heart Birth Center's New Blog! We are new to this, so bear with us as we enter into the world of blogging, but we are looking forward to sending out plenty of messages and hearing from others, so please join us here weekly for our posts. Our topics will be varied, not always just on birth (sometimes on nutrition, general health, midwifery, newborns, breastfeeding, and more!!!). We look forward to hearing from you. The staff at H2H Michelle, Lynn, Donna, Karin, Rebeccah, Lena, and Maggie