Clare & Nic Midwives Practice

We are absolutely privileged to share the birthing journey's of women and their families and love what we do.
See our website - www.clareandnicmidwives.com

Clare provides midwifery care throughout the pregnancy, labour, birth and until the baby is 6 weeks old.

Clare is a Medicare eligible midwife and offer Medicare rebates for pregnancy & post birth care.

At Clare & Nic midwives, we believe that pregnancy; labour and birth are normal physiological processes.

This process is a normal part of family life, a powerful social and emotional life passage/event. In keeping with this belief, we do not routinely interfere with the normal process.

Clare & the midwives who work with Clare & Nic Midwives support women (this includes their partners & family) during this time working in partnership with them. A partnership evolved over time, which involves mutual trust and respect, knowledge and skill sharing. We share our midwifery knowledge and skills, and women share their knowledge of their bodies, birthing and family histories with us.

We trust that women’s bodies know what to do and women in turn, trust our professional judgment. In this way, we work with women to achieve safe and satisfying outcomes for both mother and baby. That is, a healthy mother who has had a positive birth experience, who thus, feels empowered and well prepared for motherhood and a healthy baby who is surrounded by family love from the beginning.

Being a midwife, Clare endeavours to update her knowledge and skills by attending regular midwifery education workshops, attending conferences and using current evidence within my practice. Clare currently use the ACM guidelines for consultation and referral during pregnancy and is familiar with the NICE guidelines and the Victorian Three Centres Consensus guidelines for antenatal care.

Clare specialises in supporting the physiological birth process with minimal intervention to obtain a safe and optimal birth experience.

Nic is not currently working as a midwife but is supporting the practice in an administrative role.

We highly recommend and support water immersion and water birth.

We practice holistically, utilising homeopathy, naturopathy, osteopathy, aromatherapy, chiropractic care, acupuncture and acupressure techniques