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Birth and Maternity Care
Natchez Trace Maternity Center
Nashville’s closest certified birthing center. Located in Waynesboro, Tn. Their services include: family practice, pregnancy testing, prenatal care / delivery, well woman care, breastfeeding support, childbirth classes, & family planning.
The Farm is known world wide for their midwives. One in particular, Ina May Gaskin. They are located in Summertown, Tn. Their services include : prenatal care, labor coaching / doula services, in hospital labor coaching, delivery services, postpartum care, childbirth education, breastfeeding counseling, cervical cap fitting, well woman care.
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The Vanderbilt Nurse – Midwives
If you want a midwife but also want to birth in a hospital then the Vanderbilt Nurse – Midwives are your only option in Nashville. You may choose between Vanderbilt and Nashville General Hospital for your delivery with them. Their services include: labor, delivery, and prenatal care, comprehensive annual exams, preconception counseling and care, comprehensive family planning services, & complete perimenopausal and postmenopausal services. Their center also hosts a variety of classes for their patients, a list of which can be found on their website.
Tender Beginnings Birth Services
If birthing in your home (or this particular midwife’s home) is of interest to you then check out Tender Beginnings located in Franklin, Tn. They offer : prenatal care ( their prenatal exam room is the most beautiful exam room i have ever seen!), home birth, water birth, and doula services.
Kimberly Spencer is another option when it comes to home birth. Her services include: home birth, water birth, well woman care, childbirth education, & herbal products.
Labor Support
Birthing Classes held in East Nashville or in your own home.
Extra’s
Dolly Parton’s charity that mails a new, age appropriate book to your child (for free… i.e. paid for by your county) every month, until your child turns five. Davidson County does participate.
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