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Postpartum Care

Integrative care in the comfort of your own home.

Hospital-based postpartum and newborn care in the United States typically consists of only one newborn visit at 2 weeks and one postpartum visit for the birthing person at 6 weeks. That’s it! It’s no wonder that the standard U.S. model of care ranks poorly on healthy outcomes for growing families. Soft Corner is here to change the game and rewrite what standard postpartum care should look like.

The Postpartum Care Plan

A new standard of postpartum care with home visits, a team of support, and 24/7 access to your midwife.

Schedule of Care:

  • Prenatal Postpartum Planning Visit

  • Day 1 Home Visit with Licensed Midwives

  • Day 3 Home Visit with Lactation Consultant

  • Week 1 Home Visit with Licensed Midwives

  • Week 3 Clinic Visit with Midwives

  • Week 6 Clinic Visit with Midwives

  • Week 8 Clinic Visit with Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist

Includes:

  • Newborn Metabolic Screening

  • Newborn Testing (bilirubin, glucose, etc as indicated)

  • Newborn Assessment (weight, feeding, elimination, and jaundice)

  • Lip + Tongue Tie Assessment as needed

  • Continued Lactation Support

  • Physical Health and Healing Assessments (blood pressure, lochia, etc)

  • Emotional Health Assessments (hormonal labs as indicated)

  • Perineal and Pelvic Floor Healing Assessment and Support

  • Diastasis Recti Assessment

  • Perinatal Provider Network Referrals

  • 24-hour Midwifery Urgent Matter Call Service

So much transition takes place in those first few days and again in the following weeks after having a baby and Soft Corner aims to truly nurture the fourth trimester.

We’re following international evidence-based care plans with our Postpartum Care Plan. Licensed Midwives are considered primary care providers for babies in this early time frame, so care includes comprehensive and holistic baby care, as well as assessing your postpartum recovery up to 8 weeks.

We offer six 1 hour visits for both you and your baby over this 8-week period. The first three take place in the comfort of your home and the last three take place back at our office. IBCLC Lactation Consultant and Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy visits are included in care. With these combined home and clinic visits, as well as an integrative team of care providers, we’re hoping to rewrite what true postpartum support should look like.

Home-based care offered in the first week postpartum allows your family time to recover and bond. We proudly offer this in-depth service for you and your baby. Immune systems can be fragile at this time, but staying at home allows microbiomes to strengthen and illness exposure to be limited.

Don’t worry, you’ve also always got a “midwife in your pocket”, as your midwife remains available 24 hours a day for urgent matters throughout care.

Once back at the clinic, we will continue postpartum support through to a full well body care visit at 6 weeks. Your care then includes a pelvic floor assessment by Root to Rise Physical Therapy at 8 weeks.

While this model of care looks pretty different from other providers, we firmly believe this is what postpartum care should look like for everyone.

Postpartum is All About Nourishment

If you nourish yourself and your family during this time, you can lay the groundwork for not only confident parenthood beyond postpartum, but also for strong relationships, lasting physical and mental health, and overall family wellness.

It’s important to remember that not every postpartum experience looks the same. Individualized care is best during postpartum. A care team—including midwives, lactation specialists, and/or pelvic floor therapists—can tailor support to you and help you use this wild and transformative time to set the stage for all of the next chapters of life.

Planning for the best After Party yet? Take a peak at our packages that include postpartum care.

Care Packages

The Total Package

A new standard with full comprehensive pregnancy, labor, postpartum, and newborn care.

Get everything you can out of this tight knit integrative team of midwives, lactation consultants, nutritionists, and pelvic floor specialists. We’ll curate you entire pregnancy, birth, and beyond care to match your families needs.

  • Waiting for that first prenatal visit can be crazy-making! Thats why we integrate an early visit offering support through the first trimester as well as an early ultrasound in office.

  • We proudly offer, not only the community standard of Maine and the US, but also the international pregnancy care standards. This means for every test and screen available, you get to pick and choose what suits you and your family best.

  • Enjoy extended visits prenatally to get all your questions answers and truly form a relationship with your care team. We set aside nearly an hour for each visit, so we have plenty of time to talk about whats happening in your pregnancy. The hospital standard 5-7 minutes facetime with a provider is simply NOT ENOUGH!

    (Schedule of Care: 8, 10, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 weeks...until you have a baby!)

  • You'll love meeting with our holistic nutritionist at Nourish Parent and Baby Prep to find out all the pregnant, postpartum, and newborn body's needs through foods and supplementation.

  • This is the dream hands-on skill building workshop series: Birth Prep! You'll learn all about the physiologic process of birth, postpartum transitions, and of course that new baby you'll be bringing home! Get equipped learning about common and not so common birth interventions and gain confidence in knowing you're set and ready to support the birth of your dreams!

  • Meet with an IBCLC to learn all about feeding a newborn and how to create a feeding plan based on your individual health history and life.

  • Give birth where you are most comfortable and your intimate birth team will have all the bells and whistles with us.

  • Let the midwives come to you for a comprehensive physical and emotional assessment on your recovery and your newborns transition. Standard lab testing and screening is available as needed including but not limited to: labwork, jaundice assessment, blood sugar monitoring, congenital heart difference screening, newborn bloodspot metabolic screening, newborn hearing screening, etc.

  • Stay in your pajamas! Our IBCLC will come to you and offer support as newborn needs are changing and milk transitions occur.

  • Let the midwives come check in on you and baby while you transition into a new rhythm.

  • Join the midwives back at the clinic for a full assessment of you and baby as you both begin to enter the world again. Discuss all the new changes as well as family planning, birth control, nutritional needs, movement integration, and what's to come for you both.

  • A full check in on you and the babe. This visit also includes a gynecological screening, as well as pelvic floor and diastasis recti assessments. We make long term health plans for you both as you near graduating our care.

  • Meet with our Pelvic Floor specialists for a full assessment and integrative plan for integrating more movement back into your life.

The Co-Care Package

Layering on integrative support for your planned hospital birth.

Beautiful births happen in the hospital all the time, especially when layering on continuous systems of support. Get all the benefits of our care integrated with your hospital care provider.

  • Enjoy extended visits prenatally to get all your questions answers and truly form a relationship with your care team. We set aside nearly an hour for each visit, so we have plenty of time to talk about whats happening in your pregnancy. The hospital standard 5-7 minutes facetime with a provider is simply NOT ENOUGH! With this package we'll coordinate the schedule of these visit to your individual care needs.

  • You'll love meeting with our holistic nutritionist at Nourish Parent and Baby Prep to find out all the pregnant, postpartum, and newborn body's needs through foods and supplementation.

  • This is the dream hands-on skill building workshop series: Birth Prep! You'll learn all about the physiologic process of birth, postpartum transitions, and of course that new baby you'll be bringing home! Get equipped learning about common and not so common birth interventions and gain confidence in knowing you're set and ready to support the birth of your dreams!

  • Meet with your midwife team and review your pregnancy thus far, goals for birth, and ideal postpartum. Create a customized plan to match your families needs.

  • Meet with an IBCLC to learn all about feeding a newborn and how to create a feeding plan based on your individual health history and life.

  • Let the midwives come to you for a comprehensive physical and emotional assessment on your recovery and your newborns transition. Standard lab testing and screening is available as needed including but not limited to: labwork, jaundice assessment, blood sugar monitoring, congenital heart difference screening, newborn bloodspot metabolic screening, newborn hearing screening, etc.

  • Stay in your pajamas! Our IBCLC will come to you and offer support as newborn needs are changing and milk transitions occur.

  • Let the midwives come check in on you and baby while you transition into a new rhythm.

  • Join the midwives back at the clinic for a full assessment of you and baby as you both begin to enter the world again. Discuss all the new changes as well as family planning, birth control, nutritional needs, movement integration, and what's to come for you both.

  • A full check in on you and the babe. This visit also includes a gynecological screening, as well as pelvic floor and diastasis recti assessments. We make long term health plans for you both as you near graduating our care.

  • Meet with our Pelvic Floor specialists for a full assessment and integrative plan for integrating more movement back into your life.

The Postpartum Package

Plan for the best afterparty ever.

This package is a wonderful choice for those seeking comprehensive postpartum and newborn care in the first weeks and months after having a baby. Avoid running around to multiple appointments with different providers and let our team take care of your family as a whole unit. Streamline your care from the comfort of your own home!

  • Meet with your midwife team and review your pregnancy thus far, goals for birth, and ideal postpartum. Create a customized plan to match your families needs.

  • Meet with an IBCLC to learn all about feeding a newborn and how to create a feeding plan based on your individual health history and life.

  • Let the midwives come to you for a comprehensive physical and emotional assessment on your recovery and your newborns transition. Standard lab testing and screening is available as needed including but not limited to: labwork, jaundice assessment, blood sugar monitoring, congenital heart difference screening, newborn bloodspot metabolic screening, newborn hearing screening, etc.

  • Stay in your pajamas! Our IBCLC will come to you and offer support as newborn needs are changing and milk transitions occur.

  • Let the midwives come check in on you and baby while you transition into a new rhythm.

  • Join the midwives back at the clinic for a full assessment of you and baby as you both begin to enter the world again. Discuss all the new changes as well as family planning, birth control, nutritional needs, movement integration, and what's to come for you both.

  • A full check in on you and the babe. This visit also includes a gynecological screening, as well as pelvic floor and diastasis recti assessments. We make long term health plans for you both as you near graduating our care.

  • Meet with our Pelvic Floor specialists for a full assessment and integrative plan for integrating more movement back into your life.

Interested in working with Soft Corner?

Schedule a free 30-minute Meet & Greet to connect with the midwives!

Meet the Midwives